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wide, the valves black, smooth externally, slightly swollen opposite the ripe seeds, 

 very faintly ribbed alongside the upper suture, seeds 2-5, bright scarlet, small, 1 cm. 

 long, "75 cm. wide, '5 cm. thick, separated by partitions of the tawny suberous 

 endocarp in which they are embedded, with no trace of arillus. 



Nearest 0. glavca Wall, but differing greatly in the velvety under-surface of the 

 leaves. 



10. Ormosia inopinata Prain; leaflets 9, less often 11 or 7, rarely 

 5, ovate acuminate, beneath softly closely tawny pubescent on the mid- 

 rib and veins, elsewhere sparsely pubescent, leaf-rachis and branchlets 

 velvety, veins beneath prominent finely reticulate, large, distinctly 

 stalked ; pedicels long ; pod compressed with thick woody valves. 



Var. typica ; corolla reddish, leaflets persistently pubescent. 



Kachin Hills; Bansparao, nenr Sadon, Prain's Collector I 



A large tree, with closely tawny- velvety sulcate branches. Leaflets rigidly 

 subcoriaceous 15-16 cm. long, 5-6*5 cm. (the terminal leaflet sometimes 8 cm.) wide, 

 above with midrib at first pubescent at length quite glabrous, rather pale-green 

 shining, beneath persistently toinentose but the tomentnm sparser with age, veins 

 7-9 pairs prominent beneath with a fine secondary reticulation visible also above 

 especially on younger leaves, apex abruptly acuminate, base cuneate or rounded ; 

 petiolules 8 mm. and leaf-rachis 22 cm, long, closely velvety. Flowers in axillary 

 racemes or few-branched panicles 20 cm. long closely velvety as are the pedicels 

 6 mm. (in fruit over 1 cm.) long, bracts and bracteoles minute deciduous, velvet}''. 

 Calyx campanulate 9 mm. long, closely velvety both externally and within, teeth 

 wide-triangular rather longer than the tube. Corolla reddish, twice as long as 

 calyx. Stamen* usually 9, all fertile, anthers oblong versatile. Ovary shortly 

 stipitate, glabrous except for a few hairs on the dorsal and rather more on the 

 ventral suture ; style glabrous, filiform, tip circinate ; stigma oblique; ovules 4 or 3. 

 Pod hard flattened, with woody valves, 6 cm. long, 3 cm. wide, 1*25 cm. thick, with 

 faint depressions between the 3 or 4 seeds, obliquely ovate-oblong, with a distinct 

 stipe 6 mm. long and minute tip at apex of diagonal axis remote from stipe, ventral 

 suture with prominent parallel ridges 6 mm. apart projecting beyond level of line of 

 dehiscence ; seeds cinnabar-red with a small white hilnm and no arillus, ovate, 1*5 cm. 

 long, 1 cm. across: sometimes slightly compressed and only 7 mm. thick. 



106. Var. dubia ; flowers yellow, leaves glabrescent with nge on 

 the under surface. 



Kachin Hills ; Bomkatom, between Lasliio and Sadon, Prain's 

 Collector ! 



A large tree, branchlets faintly sulcate. Leaflets rigidly subcoriaceous 6-10 

 cm. long, 3-45 cm. wide, the terminal leaflet almost 5 cm. wide, light-green, glabrous 

 shining above, pale beneath very sparsely persistently pubescent, veins 7-9 pairs 

 prominent beneath as is the fine secondary venation which is hardly visible above, 

 apex acuminate, base cuneate or rounded ; petiolules 6 mm. and leaf rachis 15 cm. 

 long at first pubescent at length glabrous. Flowers in axillary racemes about 8 cm. 

 long, rachis finely velvety as are the pedicels 6 mm. long not elongated in fruit. 

 Calyx campanulate closely velvety both externally and within ; teeth wide- triangular, 

 rather longer than the tube. Corolla yellowish white, twice as long as calyx. 



