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coriaceous. Flowers small, panicled. Calyx with a very short tube and 

 basal disc; segments 4, valvate or very slightly imbricated. Petal 1, 

 the size and shape of the upper calyx-segment. Stamens 10, the upper 

 free and without anther, the others declinate shortly monadelphous, 

 hirsute, unequal, the two nearest the free staminode always fertile, 

 rather larger than the rest which are alternately short and long and 

 may casually have sterile anthers or none ; anthers oblong, versatile, 

 dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary 2-5-ovuled, short-sralked, pubescent ; 

 style long, filiform, circinate, stigma small terminal capitate. Pod more 

 or less oblique, broadly rounded-oblong, dehiscent, the valves flat, hard 

 and woody, armed or not all over the face with straight, conical, firm 

 prickles. Seeds usually 2, rarely 3-5, with a hard shining testa and 

 resting on the cupshaped apex of a thick obconic arillate funiculus. 

 Species 9 ; eight Malayan, one Cambodian. 



The earliest publication of any species of this genus was in Rnmphius, Herb, 

 A.mboin. II, t. 13. It thus forms, by citation, a part of the genus Oaledupa Lamk # 

 (Encyc. Meth. II, 594 [1786]) ; it is not, however, covered by the description of 

 Galedupa indica given by Lamarck ; that description applies only to the Pong am of 

 Eheede {Hort. Malab. VI, t. 3), now known as Pongamia glabra Vent. As this 

 latter name is validly established — Rheede's genus having been published by Adanson 

 as Pongam, before it was mistaken by Lamarck for Oaledupa — it may be one day 

 found necessary to restore Lamarck's name Oaledupa indica and restrict it to 

 Rnmphius' Caju Oaledupa. In any case Oaledupa is the generic name first applied 

 to, and therefore, by the modern canons, the one that should be used for what is at 

 once Sindora Miq., Echinocalyx Benth., and Orandiera Lefevre. The writer, be it 

 understood, is of those who consider our modern priority-hunting to be frequently 

 unwise ; this consideration will probably be shared by sober-minded students who, 

 after reading what is said here and what has been already said under Pongamia, 

 may take the trouble to examine the treatment that adepts in the art are prepared 

 to accord the names now under discussion. 



The genus is not a member of the tribe Cynometreee but of the Amherstiese, 

 where it has to be placed close to the genera Pahudia Miq. and Afzelia Linn. Pahudia 

 is in fact almost exactly intermediate between Sindora and Afzelia since it combines 

 the thinner leaves and the much imbricated sepals of the latter, with almost the pod 

 and exactly the seeds of the former. The stamens in both Pahudia and Sindora are 

 similarly united in a sheath, but there is the curious difference that the two nearest 

 the fissure are abortive and represented by bristles on the tube in Pahudia, whereas 

 in Sindora these are fully developed and in some of the species are at times the only 

 fertile stamens present. 



Pods armed on the face with strong straight prickles 

 (unknown in S. velutina) * leaves puberulous or pubescent 

 beneath : — 



Pods subequally rounded at base, style and beak at 



opposite ends of its long axis ; rachis of raceme straight 



with spirally-set bracts and flowers : — 



Stipules large foliaceous ; calyx-lobes with a few spines 



outside in their upper third ... ... ... 1. S. Wallichiana. 



