46 B.Vmin— The Asiatic species of Or'^osu. [No. 2, 1904.] 



6b. Obmosia tavotana Prain ; leaflets 7 — 9, oblong, dull pale-green, 

 distinctly stalked; flowers in axillary racemes, pedicels very short; 

 pod large, ovate-oblong, with thick valves rounded on the back. 



Burma : Tenasserim ; Tavoy, MansorCs Collector n. 301 ! 



A tree, with thickish, dark-brown, glabrous branches. Leaflets thickly char- 

 taceous and rigid in texture, pale-green, quite glabrous on both surfaces, ovate-oblong, 

 acute, terminal rather the largest, 3'5— 45 in. long, 1*5 — 2 in. wide, main-nerves 

 about 5 pairs curving forwards and rather prominent beneath ; petiolules "25 in. 

 long, and main-rachis 6'— 8 in. long, quite glabrous. Peduncle glabrous, 2"5 in. long, 

 stout as is the rachis of the raceme 1'5 in. long, which is glabrous or slightly 

 puberulous towards the apex. Flowers not seen. Fruiting 'pedicel stout, '25 in. 

 long. Pod umber-brown, 2*75 in long, 1*8 in. wide, '75 in. thick. Seed oblong, 

 •75 in. long, scarlet. 



This species most resembles 0. travancorica but has larger, more acute leaflets 

 and a larger pod. 



The Burmese name is Talaing-zin. 



% SiRiATiE. [Sub-sect, no V. post f Latiam ponenda.]. Pods with 

 thickly woody valves, not septate between the small, often solitary seeds. 



13b. Ormosia striata Vunn^ Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxv. 492, (1903). 



China: Yunnan; mountains in Western Szemao, 4000—6000 ft., 

 Fenry 11886! 12843; 12979! 



The outer layer of the valves of the pod is firmly coriaceous, the 

 endocarp is woody and subcrustaceous ; the apex like the base is 

 oblique and projects as a straight or slightly uncinate beak at right 

 angles to the long axis of the pod and diagonally opposite to the stipe. 



15. Ormosia yunnanensis Prain^ Journ, As. Soc. Beng, Ixix. 2, 

 183. 



Add to description: — Corolla white. Stamens 10, all fertile, 

 exserted ; anthers oblong, versatile. 



Add to citation of gatherings from China -.—Yunnan; mountains to 

 the south of Szemao, 5000 ft., Henry 1288b ! 



