L. LEGUHINOSJE. (J. G. Baker.) 275 



<)utea bijuga, DC. Prodr. ii. 511 j. TF<7#. Cat. No. 5823. Macrolobium bijugum, 

 Coleb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xii. 359, t. 17. 



MALAY peninsula, Wattich, Griffith. DISTRIB. Seychelles and Malay isles and 

 ^Polynesia. 



An erect tree, 50 feet high. Leaflets stalked, obliquely oblong, subcoriaceous, 

 glabrous, 2-5 in. long, subacute or obtuse. Flowers in a dense terminal corymbose 

 panicle ; pedicels ^-^ in., grey-downy. Calyx-tube cylindrical, ^-f in. Petal 

 exserted, round, with a long claw. Filaments above 1 in. Pod rigid, flat, oblong, 

 6-8 in. long; seeds 4-5. 



3. A. palembanica, Baker; leaflets 6-8, panicle corymbose, calyx- 

 tube as long as linib, fertile stamens 3. Intsia palembanica, Miq. Fldi: 2nd. 

 Sat. Suppl. 289. 



MALACCA, Griffith ("The best Malacca timber tree"), Maingay. ANDAMANS, 

 TLurz. DISTRIB. Malay isles. 



A tall unarmed erect tree. Leaflets stalked, oblong, subcoriaceous, obtuse, emar- 

 ginate, 2-4 in. long ; lowest pair distinctly smallest. Flowers in a dense terminal 

 corymbose panicle ; pedicels ~-% in., grey -downy. Calyx-tube cylindrical, >- in. 

 Petal not exserted. Filaments ^-1 in. Pod oblong, almost woody, glossy, 6-10 in. 

 "by 3 in., straight or rather curved. 



4. A.? coriacea, Saker; leaflets 4-6, panicle thyrsoid with racemose 

 branches, calyx-tube much shorter than the limb, fertile stamens 9. Intsia 

 coriacea, Maingay MSS. 



MALACCA, Maingay. . . 



Leaflets stalked, oblong, glabrous, very rigid and coriaceous, 3-4 in. long, obtuse, 

 emarginate. Flowers in copious elongated terminal panicles, with distant racemose 

 branches, clothed like the pedicels and calyx with thin rusty tomentum. Calyx-tube 

 very short; sepals f in., much narrower and less imbricated than in the two other 

 species. " Filaments alternately longer and shorter (5 long, 4 short), in bud, connate 

 into a partial tube at the base," Maingay. Pod not seen. May prove a Pahudia, but 

 we have young buds only. 



114. BAUXXXNXA, Linn. 



Unarmed erect trees or climbers with circinate tendrils. Leaves simple, 

 usually deeply cleft from the tip, rarely entire or fully divided into 2 leaflets. 

 Floivers showy, in copious simple or panicled often corymbose racemes. Calyx- 

 tube with the disk produced to the top, sometimes long and cylindrical, some- 

 tunes short and turbinate ; limb entire .and spathaceous, or cleft into 2 or 5 

 teeth. Petals 5, subequal, usually with a distinct claw. Stamens 10, or 

 reduced to 5 or 3, if fewer than 10 with sterile filaments absent or present, 

 filaments free, filiform ; anthers versatile, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary 

 stalked, many-ovuled ; style long or short, stigma small or large and peltate, 

 subterminal or oblique. Pod linear or rarely oblong, flat, continuous within, 

 dehiscent or indehiscent. Seeds albuminous. DISTRIB. Species 130, spread 

 everywhere in the Tropics. 



SECT. 1. Pauletia, Cav. Fertile stamens 10. Calyx with a very short 

 tube and spathaceous limb. Pod narrow, dehiscent. Erect shrubs with large 

 showy flowers and connate leaflets. 



1. B. tomentosa, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 514 ; flowers usually in axillary 

 pairs, petals much longer than the entire calyx-limb, pod stalked not ribbed near 

 the upper suture. Roxb. Hort. Beng. 31 ; Fl. Ind. ii. 323 ; Wall. Cat. 579(J, excl. 

 F $ G ; Sot. Mag. t. 5560 ; W. $ A. Prodr. 295 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 92. B. 

 speciosa, Roxb. ; Walk Cat. 5791. 



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