1897.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 35 



Andamans ; very common from the Coco Group to Little Andaman ; 

 Barren Island. Nicobars ; common. Penang ; Wallich ! Curtis ! Pang- 

 kore ; Scortechini ! Pahang ; Ridley! Distrib. Cosmopolitan in the 

 tropics. 



2. Abrus pulchellus Wall. Cat. 5819. A copiously branched 

 climber with thin stems and slender glabrous or thinly silky branches. 

 Leaves 3-4 in. long ; leaflets equally pinnate in 12-16 opposite pairs, 

 membranous glabrous above thinly silky beneath, green deciduous, 

 ligulate oblong '75-1*25 in. long, *25-'35 in. wide. Racemes many- 

 flowered, usually lax always long-peduncled, equalling or exceeding the 

 leaves; rachis little thickened in fruit. Calyx *1 in. thinly silky. 

 Corolla *5 in. pink, or pale blue. Pod linear flat incurved 2-2'5 in. long, 

 *5 in. wide, valves smooth thin, 8-12 seeded. Thwaites, Enum. PI. 

 Zeyl. 91 ; Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. II, 175. A. Isevigatus E. Mey, 

 Comm. I, 126 ; Harv. Fl. Cap. II, 263. A. melanospermus Hassk. Cat. 

 Bog. 282 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, 159. A. acutifolius Blume MSS. ex 

 Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, 160. 



Andamans; Coco Group, Prain ! Port Blair, common. Perak; 

 Kunstler 1023 ! Scortechini 630 ! Distrib. S. Africa and S.-E. Asia. 



2. Crotalaria Linn. 

 Herbs or shrubs with simple or digitately 3-foliolate rarely 5-7- 

 foliolate leaves. Flowers often large and showy in terminal or leaf- 

 opposed racemes. Calyx with short tube, and with lanceolate or linear 

 teeth free or somewhat connate in two lips. Corolla equalling or exceed- 

 ing the calyx ; standard rounded or ovate short-clawed; wings obovate 

 or oblong shorter than standard ; keel as long as wings, its petals united, 

 much incurved and beaked. Stamens monadelphous in a sheath split 

 dorsally, anthers dimorphous, alternately on short filaments versatile and 

 on longer basifixed. Ovary sessile or, rarely, stipitate linear usually 

 many-ovuled ; style long, abruptly incurved at the base, bearded above, 

 stigma oblique small. Pod sessile or, rarely, supported on a gynophore 

 oblong or linear, straight, turgid or inflated, continuous within, 2-qo - 

 seeded. Species about 250, widespread in tropical and sub-tropical 

 regions. 



Leaves simple : — 



Stipules decurrent as a persistent wing to the stem ... 1. C. alata. 



Stipules, if present, not decurrent : — 

 Pods not longer than the calyx : — 



Flowers in elongated racemes, petals blue ; stipules 



minute ... ... ... ... 2. C. sesbiliflora 



Flowers in short few-fld. heads, petals pale yellow ; 



stipules ... ... ... ... 3. C. chinensis. 



