208 xvi. POLYGALEJE. (A. W. Bennett.) [Secur-idaca. 



oblique'pores. Ovary 1-celled, 1-ovuled. Fruit a 1-celled samara, 1 -seeded, 

 wing broad coriaceous. Seeds exaibuuiinous, estrophiolate, Dis'iKin. 

 Species about 25 ; most numerous in tropical America, rarer in tropical 

 Africa and Asia. 



ia, Wall. Cat. 4196; leaves elliptic or obovate-oblong 

 beneath, flowers in loose Bubcorymbose panicles, wings 

 B, Ham. /// \\\dl. Cat. 4195 (not oj ' Jacy.) ; Hawk, 'in 

 Miy. Ann. Mu8^1JSQ.&. paniculate, WaU.(notofLam]c.}, 8. iuappendi- 

 culata, Hassk. Pl.JavTftaj+3Q>. Lophostylis javaniea, J//y. Ft. X<-'l. In. I. i. 

 pt. 2, 128. ^X* 



EASTERN BENGAL, from Silhet and Cmitagong to llangoim. -1 >ISTI:H',. Java, China. 



A large woody scundent >hrub ; brancoea^friate, branchlets puherulous. 

 3-5 by U-2 in., generally acuminate, ^TTrcite, paler beneath. / 

 lower with considerably longer (I \\\.\ pedicels than the upper. ' 

 equal, ovate, shortly eiliate ; \\ings elli])tie, obtuse. Lnt< nil /" <il< a.lnate at t. 

 to the keel, truncate; keel with a conspicuous but scarcely tinibri. 

 orbicular; style unilateral, curved at right angles near the tip. Xainarn -!>-'.} \ in.; 

 nucleus very rugos.- ; wing very large and strongly veined, oblique, tip rounded, margin 

 entire, veins arched. 



2. S. bracteata, A. W. Benn. ; leaves elliptic pnberulons beneath, 

 flowers in punk-led racemes, wings orbicular, wing of fruit strongly vi 



MALACCA, Mniin/ti;/. 



A large scandeiit shrub; branches terete, hoarj-pnbescent. Leaves ellip; i 

 niinate, margins revolute \vhen dry, beiu-ath tinely pube>'iit g'autv 

 jiedicels ! ill. Jtrart* ovate, acuminate, pubescent, per>istent alter llowering. 

 x.'jxil.i nearly equal, lur-e ovate, very hairy, ciliate ; wings scarc-lv 1 v 



nt externally. Lateral petal* truneate; keel with a iveurved. plaite i 



di-'i orbicular; style curved. l-'rnit unkiio\vn. ^ani'ira '.} :',}, in., similar tu i 



Tacoyaua, but contracted for a longer space above the nucleus. 



4. TRIGONIAST21UM, Miquel. 



A shrub or small tree. Leave* hoary beneath. Flowr* in slender ter- 

 minal panicles. /V<//.< 5, uuetiual, the inferior keel-.sliajied. . 

 filaments united into a sheath. Om/y/ densely hairy, 3-loeular ; ovules 

 pendulous, solitary in each cell. Fruit of 'A saniaroid ultimately a 

 distinct carpels, tiwds 1 in each carpel, not strophiolate. 



1. T. hypoleucum, Mi'/. FL Sal. ln<l. tiuj>j>t. i. 395. Isopteris penan- 

 giana, Wutl. Cat. 1-1(>1. 



I'I:NANC. J'orti r ; Malacca, Mawgay. 



Branches slender, teiete; branchlets hoary. Leaves 4-7 by l|-2 in., elliptic- 



lam eolate, obtusely acuminate, pale beneath and with very fine adpressed pube- 

 petiole /y-a ; in. PanicUi much branched, lax, slender. Flowers \ in. diain., sho'lly 

 pedicelled, tomentose. Sepal* 5, 2 ext< rior rather larger. Ovari/ densely hairy. 

 ti'iinara "2 in. long, membranous, dimidiate-obovate, strongly reticulate, shining; 

 nucleus small. 



5. XANTHOFHVX.X.U1K, Roxburgh. 



Timber-trees. Leaves large, coriaceous, generally yellow-green. ,sV 7 ,,//,s 

 5, nearly equal. Petals 5 or 4, nearly equal, the inferior keel-shaped, not 

 crested. Stamens 8, distinct, 2 hypogynous, 6 attached to the base of the 

 petals. Ovary stipitate, 1 - celled ; style curved; ovules various in number 



