Ormosia.~\ L. LEGUMINOSJJ. (J. G. Baker.) 253 



2. O. travancorica, Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 45; leaflets 7-9 oblong dull 

 green long-stalked, racemes crowded in terminal panicles, pedicels very short, 

 pod oblong with the valves rounded on the back. 



TRAVANCORE hills, Beddome. 



A tall tree, with finely grey-downy branchlets. Leaflets opposite, oblong, cuspi- 

 date, rigidly coriaceous, 2-3 in. long, dull grey-green beneath, rounded at the base, 

 slightly downy on the midrib, the veinlets immersed ; petiolules \-^ in. long. 

 Flowers crowded on the finely grey-downy branches ; bracts very minute. Calyx 

 brown-silky, - i in., deeply 5-clett. Corolla whitish, under twice the length of the 

 calyx. Pod glabrous, hard, oblique oblong, subacute, 3 in. long, 1-seeded. Seed 

 oblong, 1 in. long, with a bright scarlet testa. 



3. O. macrodisca, Baker ; leaflets 7-9 rigidly coriaceous pale green 

 oblong, short-stalked, racemes crowded in terminal panicles, pedicels shorter 

 than the calyx, pod large orbicular with subcompressed thick valves. 



MALACCA., Maingay. 



A large tree, with very thick grey glabrous branchlets. Leaflets very thick and 

 rigid in texture, pale grey-green on both surfaces, acute, broadly rounded at the base, 

 3-5 in. long, quite glabrous, the veins immersed. Branches of the panicle stout, 

 sulcate, glabrous ; bracts and bracteoles minute, subpersistent ; pedicels brown-silky 

 | in. Calyx - in., densely brown-silky, cleft considerably below the middle. 

 Corolla half as long again as the calyx; standard f in. broad. Stamens consider- 

 ably exserted. Pod hard, thick, 3 in. broad, flat at first, turgid when the usually 

 solitary seed swells. Seed oblong, 1 in. long, with a large black adnate pitted 

 aril. 



4. O. glauca, Wall PL Asiat. Ear. ii. 23, t. 125 ; leaflets 7-9 oblong 

 dull pale green distinctly stalked, flowers in axillary racemes, pedicels as long as 

 the calyx, pod unknown. Wall. Cat. 5338. 



NIPAL, Wallich. 



A tall tree, with thinly brown-velvety stout sulcate branchlets. Leaflets rigidly 

 subcoriaceous, obtusely cuspidate, 3-4 in. long, dull pale green on both surfaces, the 

 veins immersed ; petiolules - in. Flowers in peduncled racemes, shorter than the 

 leaves ; bracts and bracteoles minute, caducous. Calyx \ in., obscurely silky ; teeth 

 as long as the tube. Corolla white, twice the length of the calyx. Ovary linear, 

 brown-silky, 3-4-ovuled. 



** Leaflets beneath and branchlets velvety. Seeds small. 



5. O. microsperma, Baker ; leaflets 11-13 acute short-stalked, vein- 

 lets beneath slender raised anastomosing, pedicels shorter than the calyx, pod 

 subcompressed with thin valves, seed oblong turgid. 



MALACCA, Griffith, Maingay. 



A middle-sized tree, with thick densely brown-velvety branches. Leaflets oblong, 

 rigidly coriaceous, 2-4 in. long, grey-green, rather glossy above, broadly rounded at 

 the base, densely persistently shortly pubescent beneath ; petiolules in. Branches 

 of the panicle rigidly erecto-patent, densely velvety. Calyx -| in., "with a pair of 

 small lanceolate bracteoles at the base, densely velvety ; teeth as long as the tube. 

 Corolla twice as long as the calyx. Ovary densely silky, 3-4-ovuled. Pod orbicular 

 if 1-seeded, f in. long, oblong if 2-seeded, lineate between the seeds, the valves 

 thin, rigid, glabrescent. Seeds bright scarlet, \ in. long, exarillate. Closely resembles 

 0. coarctata, Jacks, in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. t. 25, from Guiana, and nearly allied to 

 the Malayan Macrotropis sumatrana, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 294. Kurz refers here 

 Chcenolobium septemjugum and decemjugum, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 302. 



6. O. parvifolia, Baker; leaflets 9-13 small acute, long-stalked, veins 



