268 L. LEGUMINOS.E. (J. G. Baker.) [Cynometra. 



erecto-patent, ^- in. Sepals in., permanently ascending. Filaments twice the 

 calyx. Pod ^ in. thick, woody, oblique obovoid, 2-2% in. long, not at all wrinkled. 

 Col. Beddome has found a plant in South Canara with 3 pairs of leaflets and similarr 

 bracts, of which the flowers are not yet known. 



4. C. cauliflora, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 509 ; leaflets usually 2, flowers 

 in dense sessile congested racemes from thick branches with the axis produced, 

 pod turgid wrinkled. Roxb. Hort. Beng. 32 ; Wall. Cat. 5816, ex parte ; 

 W. Sf A. Prodr. 293 ; JBedd. Fl Sylv. t. 315 (analysis). 



WESTERN PENINSULA, CEYLON, MALACCA. DISTRIB. Malay isles. 



Branchlets slender, glabrous. Petioles very short ; leaflets very rarely bijugate, 

 and if so very unequal, rigidly coriaceous, sessile, glossy, obovate, very oblique 

 obtuse or subacute, 3-6 in. long. Bacemes congested in dense rounded masses, not 

 more than an inch long, the central axis of each produced, the short erecto-patent 

 pedicels subtended by small roundish spreading persistent bracts. Calyx ^ in. Pod 

 like that of C. ramiflora, oblique oblong, very turgid, 1-1 in. long. 



STJBGEN. 2. Fseudocynometra, W. 8f A. Stamens indefinite. 



5. C. polyandra, Roxb. Cor. PL iii. t. 286 ; Hort. Seng. 32; Fl. Ind. 

 ii. 372 ; DC. Prodr. ii. 509 ; Wall. Cat. 5815 ; W. $ A. Prodr. 294. 



KHASIA, SILHET, PENANG, MALACCA. 



Branchlets slender, glabrous. Leaves nearly sessile, -f ft. ; leaflets 4-6, usually 

 the latter, sessile, oblique-oblong or obovate, 2-4 in. long, rigidly subcoriaceous, 

 acute or subobtuse, glossy. Flowers in dense corymbs, sessile in the axils of the 

 leaves of the branchlets ; pedicels downy, -1 in. Sepals f in., reflexed. Stamens 

 40-60, much exserted. Pod oblique oblong, smooth, woody, 2 in. long. 



105. SXNDORA, Miquel. 



Unarmed trees. Leaves abruptly pinnate ; leaflets few. Flowers small, 

 panicled. Calyx with a very short tube and basal disk ; segments 4, valvate, the 

 two upper being connate. Petal one, the same size and shape as the upper lip 

 of the calyx. Stamens 10, the upper one free from the others, shorter and 

 anantherous, the rest declinate, shortly monadelphous, unequal, the upper 

 longest, exserted ; anthers oblong, versatile, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary 

 2-ovuled, short-stalked ; stigma long, filiform, circinate, stigma minute ter- 

 minal. Pod like that of Guilandina, oblique, round-oblong, dehiscent, the flat, 

 hard valves armed all over the face with straight large firm prickles. DISTRIB. 

 Another species or variety in Sumatra. 



1. S. Wallicliii, Benth. in Hook. Ic. t. 1017-8 ; branchlets and leaves 

 below shortly tomentose, leaflets 4-6, bracts persistent, calyx prickly. Guilan- 

 dina Wallichiana, Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5805. Echinocalyx, Benth. ~Gen. Plant. 

 584, 1003. 



SINGAPORE, Wallich ; MALACCA, Griffith, Maingay. 



A small erect unarmed tree, with branches clothed with short brown pubescence, 

 Leaflets rigidly coriaceous, 2-3 in. long, subobtuse, oblong, glossy above, closely 

 pubescent beneath. Panicles dense, axillary and terminal ; bracts cordate, roundish} 

 spreading or reflexed ; pedicels nearly as long as the calyx. Calyx ^ in., brown- 

 downy, the sepals armed towards the tip with large firm prickles. Pod glabrous, 

 sublignose, 2-3 in. long. 



VAR. 1. siamensis, Teysm., sp. ; leaflets 6 obovate distinctly emarginate larger 

 thinner strongly veined the end one 3-4 in. long. Siam, Teysmann. 



VAR. 2. intermedia, Baker; leaflets 6-8 smaller more acute, flowers smaller, 

 and receding towards the next by its shorter pedicels, caducous bracts, calyx without 

 prickles and more densely velvety sepals and branches. Malacca, Maingay. 



