1897.] G. King — Materials j 'or a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 157 



long lax racemes 12-20 in. long, bracts minute caducous, pedicels glab- 

 rous 15-2 in. long. Calyx 5-partite to the base, segments broadly 

 spathulate "25 in. long, finely pnberulous. Petals 5 subequal, obovate 

 shortly clawed, '8- J in. long, -6-7 in. wide. Stamens 10 all antheriferous, 

 the 3 lowest with larger and thicker but not nodose filaments, and with 

 larger anthers. Pod terete, *9-l in. thick, not at all annulated, 1-2 feet 

 long, dull black with thin brittle ligneous transverse dissepiments 

 between the 50-90 seeds each of which is embedded in a suberous disc 

 •8-'9 in. across, "2 in. thick. Seeds broadly ovate smooth shining. *35 

 in. long, 3 in. across, "2 in. thick, testa pale warm-brown. DC. Prodr. 

 II, 488 ; Roxb. Hoit. Beng. 31 ; Fl. Ind. II, 333 ; Wall. Cat. 5302 ; 

 W. & A. Prodr. 285 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, 89 ; Bak. in Flor. Bi it. Ind. 

 II, 261; Koord. & Val. Bijdr. II, 11. C. rJiombifolia Roxb. Hort. 

 Beng. 31 ; Flor. Ind. II, 334 ; Wight Ic. t. 269. 



Malacca ; fide Baker in Flor. Brit. Ind. Andamans ; planted, 

 common. 



This is the well-known Amaltds or " Tndian Laburnum " undoubtedly a native of 

 India but, not in the writer's opinion, entitled to be considered an indigenous tree in 

 Malaya ; indeed none of the Malayan botanists have sent specimens to Calcutta. 

 Mr. Baker however alludes to specimens at Kew from Malacca; possibly it is plant- 

 ed in the other provinces also. In the And;imans it only occurs as a planted tree. 



§ 2. Psilorhegma Yogel. /SV^ata obtuse, stamens all antheriferous, 

 anthers all subequal. Pods compressed, dehiscent, the dissepiments 

 between the seeds membranous. 



4. Cassia glauca Lamk Encyc. Meth. I, 647. A small tree 15-20 

 feet high with glabrous terete branches ; stem 4-6 in. in diam. Leaves 

 equally pinnate 6-9 in. long ; leaflets 4-6 pnirs opposite, membranous 

 or subcoriaceous, pale-green glabrous above, very glaucous and sparsely 

 adpiessed-puberulous or glabrous beneath, ovate-acute, base cuneate y 

 2-4 in. long, 1-2 in. wide, lateral nerves 10-12 pairs indistinct, 

 petiolules '15 in. long, pnberulous as is the racbis which is faintly 

 channelled above and furnished with long conical glands between each 

 of the 2-3 lowest pairs of leaflets ; stipules falcate narrowly lanceolate 

 *35 in. long, caducous. Flowers in axillary corymbs 4 in. long, 2*5 in. 

 across, tlie peluncles 2 in. long ; lower pedicels L'25 in. long, spreading, 

 solitary in the axils of small elliptic caducous bracts glabrous as are the 

 peduncles. Calyx 5-par<ifce to the base, segments very unequal, pale- 

 yellow, glabrous, all orbicular, the outer '2, the others *3 in. across. 

 Petals 5 subequal, spreading, broadly ovate-obtuse shortly clawed, 1 in. 

 long, *75 in. across, pale-primose with faint greenish-yellow veins. 

 Stamens 10 subequal. Pod straight flat very thin, dehiscent, linear, 

 tapering to both ends, flexible, dull, slightly compressed between the 

 seeds, valves thinly coriaceous, 6-8 in. long, -o~'7 in. wide, with a stalk 



