196 G. King — Materials j 'or a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. 1, 



slightly puberulous within along midrib, the upper rather longer sub- 

 acute, the others obtuse '35 in. long, light-red, spreading. Stamens 3 

 fertile, filaments '3 in. long. Ovary very shortly stalked, densely pubes- 

 cent, style "2 in. long, stigma large peltate. Pod thin flat densely 

 velvet}', 3-5 in. long, 2 in. across, valves woody ; stipe very short. Seeds 

 3-5, ovate, dark-brown, 1 in. long, '(5 in. across. 



Pkrak; Kunstler 5914 ! 7054! Scortechiui! Selangor ; Kwala Lam- 

 par, " top of the cave, " Kelsall 1971 ! 



A very remarkable species at once distinguished from any of the other Malayan 

 ones by its leaves, which have the nervation of a Strychnos ; and from all the hitherto 

 known species by its truncate entire calyx. It might on this account be perhaps 

 treated as the type of a new section. As regards fruit it might be placed in the 

 section Phanera ; as regards its other characters it agrees better with Lasi&bema 

 in which it is now placed. 



48. Cynombtra Linn. 



Erect unarmed trees. Leaves with few coriaceous odd-pinnate 

 leaflets. Floivers copious, minute, in axillary corymbs or racemes. 

 Calyx with a very short tube and subbasal disc ; divisions 4-5, oblong, 

 imbricated. Petals 5, oblanceolate, equal, not exserted. Stamens 10, op 

 in C. polt/andra indefinite, filaments erect, free, filiform, exserted ; 

 anthers small, oblong, versatile, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary sessile 

 or short-stalked, 2-ovuled ; style filiform, stigma capitate. Pod turgid, 

 oblique-oblong, with very thick indehiscent, usually rugose, tough, some- 

 what fleshy valves. Seed exalbuminous, central, filling up the cavity. 

 Distrib. Species 20, spread everywhere in the tropics. 



Stamens 10 (§ Eucynometra) ; leaf-rachis glabrous: — 



Flowers on stem and thick branches in racemes with a 



produced axis ; pedicels glabrous ; (leaves 1-jugate) ... 1. C. caulifiora. 



Flowers among the leaves in racemes or corymbs without a 



produced axis; pedicels puberulous : — 



Corymbs laxly nmbelliform, bracts small very deciduous; 



pods rugose; leaves 1-2-jugate .... ... ... 2. C. ramifiora. 



[Leaves 1-jugate ... ..r subsp. genuina ; 



Leaves 2-jugate ... ... subsp. bijuga ; 



End-leaflets acute much exceed- 

 ing basal pair .., ... YAR.heterophylli r 

 End- leaflets obtuse hardly ex- 

 ceeding basal pair ... ... VAR. mimosoides.'] 



Kncemes dense subspicate> bracts subpersistent ; pod 



smooth ; leaves 3-jugate ... ... ... 3. C. inaequali- 



folia. 

 Stamens 40-60 (§ Pneudocynometra) ; leaf-rachis puberulous; 

 (Bowers in axillary corymbs ; pedicels puberulous) ... 4. C. polyandra. 



[Pod smooth ... ... var. typica ; 



