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prominent like tle midrib beneath, margin entire, firmly chartaceous, pale-green, 
glabrous on both surfaces, petiole glabrous, 4—6 ст. long, petiolules glabrous, 2'5 mm. 
long, marginally attached; flowers in copious terminal and axillary panicles 20—30 cm. 
long, 19—20 cm. across, rachis and branches rusty-pubescent; nodes not swollen, 
pedicels solitary, pubescent, 1 mm. long; calyx campanulate, densely pubescent, 2 mm, 
long, the two upper teeth connate in а broadly deltoid lip bifid at tip, the 
others triangular almost as long as the tube; corolla dark-purple, 6 mm. long, 
standard ovate-oblong, entire, keel boat-shaped the petals slightly cohering; séamens 
2-adelphous the upper one quite free from those of the  keel-sheath and slightly 
adnate at base to standard claw; anthers versatile, uniform, free portions of fila- 
ments alternately long and short; ovary sessile, usually 2-ovuled, style slightiy 
incurved, filiform, stigma capitate; pod thin, flat, densely brown pubescent and distinct- 
ly reticulated, 5—10 cm. long, 15 cm. wide, 1—2-seeded ; seeds oblong, 3°25 em. 
long, 1°25 cm. wide, cotyledons thin and leaflike, testa very dark brown, faintly 
rugose externally, thinly chartaceous. 
MALAYAN PENINSULA : Perak, at Larut, Kunstler nn. 3830! 6870! 6935 1 
The genus Kunstleria was founded by the writer to accommodate 5 evidently 
congeneric Malayan species with the habit of Spatholobus and with the calyx and 
almost the corolla of that genus. This new genus however differs from Spatholobus 
in having its flowers solitary instead of fascicled on tumid nodes; in having ex- 
stipellate leaflets varying in number in different species from 1—7 ; in the present species 
only one of the many specimens sent by Kunstler had a leaf with a solitary leaflet 
all the other leaves being 3-foliolate. Another point of difference between 7:06 
and Spatholobus is that the pods of the former are quite indehiscent with the seeds 
situated centrally and not terminally ; in this respect therefore Kunstlerta is not dis- 
tinguishable from Lonchocarpus. From Lonchocarpus, however, Kunsileria differs іп 
having unfascicled flowers, in having a toothed calyx and in having diadelphous 
stamens. As regards inflorescence Kunstleria agrees exactly with the species of Derris 
that constitute the section Aganope and agrees moreover with that group of species 
in having the vexilary stamen free. But here again Kunsileria differs in having a 
wingless pod and a toothed calyx, and in having the free stamen slightly adnate to 
the standard claw. With the calyx of Spatholobus therefore we find combined in 
Kunstleria the pod of Lonchocarpus and the inflorescence of Aganope. The genus is 
dedicated to the memory of the late Herr H. H. Kunstler. 
Prate 35.—Kunstleria Kingii Prain. 1, flowering branch; 2, fruiting branch—both of natural 
sisê ; 9, calyx, laid open; 4, standard; 5, 6, wings; 7, keel; 8, stamens; 9, ovary; 10, the 
same, laid open; 11, оуше--ай enlaryed; 12, pod; 18, всей; 14, vertical section of seed—of 
D. Р, 
PLATES 36—39. 
DYsoLoBruM Prain tn Journ. Аз. Soc. Beng. lxvi. 2. 425 (1897). 
Natural order Leguminose. | 
Twiners, usually woody, with 3-foliolate stipellate leaves; flowers in copious 
axillary racemes, bracteoles inconspicuous, deciduous; calyz campanulate, the lower 
Ann. Вот. Вот. Garp, Carc, Vor. IX. 
