1897.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 125 



Wall. Cat. 5843 (excluding Gr and, according to W. & A., also excluding 

 D). P. indicus Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. IV, Suppl. 77, in part; 

 Bedd. Fl. Sylvat. t. 23; Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. II, 238 in part, not of 

 Willd. 



Andamans ; common. 



This tree is usually treated as a form of the preceding species, and it has been 

 the fashion to say that the two are not distinguishable by ' botanical ' characters. 

 As they grow it would be very hard to mistake them, and when have been 

 carefully examined it becomes difficult to realize that, even in the herbarium, they 

 should ever have been confounded. 



32. Arachis Linn. 

 Annual herbs. Leaves abruptly pinnate, leaflets few ; stipules 

 elongated adnate to the petiole. Calyx long-tubular simulating a 

 pedicel, 2-lipped ; the upper lip 4-tootlied the lower long slender. 

 Corolla resupinate. Stamens (sometimes only 9) united in a tube in- 

 serted with the petals on calyx limb ; staminal tube grooved on vexillary 

 side but not split ; anthers dimorphic alternately on short filaments 

 versatile and on longer subbasifixed. Ovary at first short-stalked, at 

 base of calyx-tube, the stalk soon elongating ; style filiform, bearded 

 above ; stigma minute. Tod long-stalked ovate-oblong, obtuse at both 

 ends, gibbous, torulose, reticulated, coriaceous, indehiscent, 2-4-seeded. 

 Seeds fleshy, oily. Species 7 ; six in Brazil, 1 widely cultivated in the 

 tropics. 



Arachis hypog^a Linn. Sp. PI. 741. An annual diffuse herb, stems 

 grooved and angled 6-20 in. high, often much branched near base ; 

 stems and branches clothed with longish spreading hairs. Leaf-rachis 

 pubescent 2-4 in. long ; leaflets exstipellate in 2 opposite pairs, ovate- 

 oblong obtuse with rounded base, 1-1*5 in. long, '6-1 in. wide, green and 

 glabrous above, pale and sparsely clothed with spreading hairs beneath ; 

 stipules narrow lanceolate 1 in. long, '15 in. wide, upper half free. 

 Flowers 2-7, in leaf-axils along the stem. Calyx-lips '25 in. long, the 

 lower linear the upper *15 in. wide. Corolla *4 in. long, pale-yellow or 

 white ; standard suborbicular, glabrous, keel beaked. Pod carried under- 

 ground by the elongating pedicel, where it ripens; 1-1*25 in. long, 5 

 in. across ; 2-3-seeded. DO. Prodr. II, 474; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, 218. 



Singapore ; cultivated, Anderson ! Penang ; cultivated, Curtis ! 



The " Ground-Nut," commonly cultivated in India and Malaya, probably origi- 

 nally introduced into the old world from Brazil. 



33. Zornia Gmel. 

 Annuals, with large geminate coriaceous bracts and dotted leaflets 

 in 1-2 opposite pairs. Flowers in lax racemes. Calyx minute; upper 



