382 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Perak : Scortechini 1496 ; Wray. Malacca : Griffith (K.D.) 4070 ; 

 Maingay 1212 (part). SiNaAPOEE : Maingay (K.D.) 1212 (ixtrt) ; Cantley 

 79,204. — DiSTRiB. Tavoy, Java. 



5. Pajanblia, do. 



A large tree, glabrous except the flowers. Leaves large, impari- 

 pinnate ; leaflets entire, numerous. Flowers large, in large terminal 

 thyrsoid panicles, dark red. Calyx large, ovoid and closed in bud, in 

 flower ventricose-campanulate ; lobes 5. Corolla-tube cylindric below, 

 ventricose-campanulate above, wide at the mouth ; limb sub-bilabrate, 

 lobes 5, spreading, recurved, unequal. Stamens 4, with a rudimentary 

 fifth, didynamous, sub-exsert ; filaments slender ; anthers glabrous, cells 

 oblong, divergent. Dish annular. Ovary 2-celled, ovules on each 

 placenta numerous, co-seriate. Fruit an elongate narrowly oblong 

 capsule, loculicidally dehiscing, the septum contrary to the valves, the 

 margins of the valves extended in broad wings. Seeds in several rows 

 on the edges of the septum, compressed, with hyaline wings ; cotyledons 

 flat, radicle small. — Disteib. A single S.E, Asiatic species. 



Pajanelia multijuga, DC. Prod. IX. 227 (1845). A large evergreen 

 tree, reaching 60 to 80 feet in height and 2 feet in diam. of stem ; 

 glabrous except the corolla ; bark "25 in. thick, dark grey, rough ; branches 

 thick, lenticellate. Leaves imparipinnate, 1"5 to 3 feet long, glabrous ; 

 rachis angular ; leaflets 10 to 12 pairs with a terminal one, very unequal- 

 sided, elliptic-ovate, acute at apex, rounded at base on the upper, cuneate 

 on the lower side, chartaceous, margins entire recurved, 4 to 8 in. long, 

 2-5 to 3"5 in. broad ; midrib slender, main-nerves 9 on upper, 7 on lower 

 side, reticulations transverse; petiolule stout, -2 to '3 in. long. Panicles 

 thyrsoid, 12 to 18 in. long ; rachis stout, fleshy, lenticellate ; primary 

 branches 1 to 2 in. long, similar, secondary di- tri-chotomously branched ; 

 pedicels "5 in. long ; bracteoles minute ; flowers large, pale yellow, 

 throat purple within. Calyx closed in bud, in flower campanulate, 

 1 to 1*5 in. long; tube broad at base with keel-like folds without, lobes 

 5, irregular, acute. Corolla 2 to 2*5 in. long, cylindric below, then 

 somewhat constricted, then ventricose-campanulate ; lobes 5, unequal, 

 at first parallel-sided, then broadening into a blunt rounded crispately 

 crenulate limb ; the upper part of the tube and the lobes, especially on 

 the margin, grey-pubescent. Stamens 4 with a rudimentary fifth, 

 didynamous ; filaments slender, glabrous ; anther-cells oblong, diver- 

 gent. Disk annular, pulvinate, glabrous. Ovary sessile, oblong ; style 

 slender, angled, broadening upwards into a 2-lobed clavate stigma ; 

 cells 2, ovules very numerous. Cajjside flat, lanceolate, broadly winged, 

 the wings split, glabrous, 1 to 1-5 feet long, 2 to 2-5 in. broad ; septum 



