JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL. 



Vol. LXVI. Part II.— NATURAL SCIENCE. 

 No. I.— 1897. 



Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. — By George King, 

 LL.D., F.R.S., C.I.E., Superintendent of the Eoyal Botanic Garden, 

 Calcutta. 



No. 9. 



With the last part of these Materials the account of the Tfisciflorse 

 of the Malayan Peninsula was concluded ; and in the present part that 

 of the Calyciflorse is began. My progress has (owing to the press of 

 official and of other work) been even slower than I anticipated when I 

 began the publication of these Materials now more than seven years 

 ago. I therefore invoked the aid of my excellent friend and colleague 

 Dr. D. Prain, and he, in response to my appeal, generously undertook 

 the elaboration of the important family of Leguminosse which forms so 

 large a portion of the present paper. It is hoped that one more con- 

 tribution similar in size to the present one will suffice to complete the 

 account of the Calyciflorse, and so to bring the whole series about half 

 way towards completion. 



Order XXXVII. CONNARACE^ 



Erect or climbing shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, exstipulate, 



1-3-foliolate or unequally-pinnate ; leaflets quite entire. Flowers in 



racemes panicles or cymes, regular or subregular, usually bisexual. 



Calyx 5-lobed or -partite, usually persistent, imbricate or valvate. Petals 



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