Cynotnetra.} LegttminOSCB. Ill 



Stems stouter, gland on rachis more prominent but not 

 stalked, placed rather below the lowest pair of lflts., lflts. fewer, 

 much larger, i— f in., aristate; pods smaller, i|-if in. 



Low country and lower montane zone to 4000 ft. in open grassy 

 places ; common. Var. j3, Hantane ; Maturata. Var. y, the commonest 

 variety. Fl. April, August; yellow. 



Found throughout the Tropics. 



The leaves are very sensitive. I know of no figure of this common 

 plant. 



Var. y, I should prefer, with Thwaites, to regard as a distinct species ; 

 it is a common weed about Kandy, and very distinct in appearance, 

 having red-purple stems and blue-green foliage. 



52. CYNOIffiETEA, L. 



Trees, 1. abruptly pinnate with 2 or 4 lflts., fl. small in 

 axillary racemes; cal. very deeply cleft almost to base; pet. 5, 

 equal, narrow; stam. 10, equal, spreading; ov. with 2 ovules; 

 pod leathery-woody, indehiscent, obliquely ovoid, i-seeded ; 

 seed large, without endosperm, cotyledons plane-convex. — 

 Sp. 20; 5 in FL B. Ind. 



C ramiflora, L. Sp. PI. 382 (1753). G-al-mendora, S. 

 Attukaddupuli, T. 



Moon Cat. 33. Thw. Enum. 97 (var. a). C. P. 3604. 

 Fl. B. Ind. ii. 267. Rumph. Herb. Amb. 1 t. 63. 



A small or moderate-sized much-branched tree with rather 

 smooth, brownish-grey bark, twigs slender, pendulous, young 

 parts glabrous, 1. composed of 1 pair of sessile lflts., articulated 

 on a short thick wrinkled rachis \- § in. long, lflts. 4^-6 in., 

 approximated not spreading, linear-lanceolate, very unequal- 

 sided at base, tapering to long acuminate obtuse apex, stiff, 

 glabrous on both sides, with rather conspicuous but not 

 prominent venation ; fl. small, on very slender ped. \-% in. 

 long, numerous, in short, spreading, sessile, axillary, corymbose 

 racemes barely 1 in. long, bracts small, broad, pubescent, cal.- 

 segment glabrous ; pet. narrowly lanceolate, acute; stam. twice 

 as long as pet., spreading ; pod not seen (but see under Crudia 

 zeylanico, p. 113). 



Var. ft, heterophylla, Thw. I. c. C. P. 1500. Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 315 

 (from Ceylon specimens). 



Lflts. very variable, usually 4 (2 pair), of which the lower 

 arc much the smaller often not more than \ in., the upper 

 reaching 4 in., oval, obtuse or emarginatc ; pod from \-l in., 

 compressed-turgid, nearly straight along dorsal suture, very 

 tbous on ventral, often deeper than long, shortly but dis- 

 tinctly beaked, very deeply rugose. 



