1897.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 207 



The leaflets of this species are exactly like those of S. sumatrana but the pods 

 differ in being much larger, and in being neither transversely twisted nor armed. 

 The pods both in shape and in the absence of spines resemble those of <S. Galedupa 

 (Galedupa indica Lamk. Encyc. Meth. II, 594, as to syn. Caju Galedupa Eumph. 

 Herb. Amboin. II, 59, t. 13) and only differ in being a good deal larger. The two 

 may indeed ultimately prove to be forms of one species. 



51. Afzelia Smith. 



Erect unarmed trees. Leaves abruptly pinnate, with few pairs of 

 opposite leaflets. Floivers in copious terminal panicles. Calyx with the 

 disc produced to the top of the elongated tube ; sepals 4, much imbri- 

 cated, slightly unequal. Petal only one developed, orbicular witli a 

 distinct claw, the others absent or rudimentary. Stamens 3 perfect, 

 filaments long, pilose ; anthers minute, oblong, opening longitudinally. 

 Pod large oblong flattish, sublignose, subindehiscent. Seeds exalbumi- 

 nous. Species 10-12 ; tropics of Old World. 



Leaflets 4, rarely 2 : — 



Pedicels and calyx glabrous ... ... ... 1. A. retusa. 



Pedicels and calyx puberulous ... ... ... 2. A. bijuga. 



Leaflets 8, rarely 10 or 6; (pedicels and calyx pubescent) ... 3. A. palembanica. 

 1. Afzelia retusa Kurz, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XLIIT, 2, 73. A small 

 tree 15-20 feet high, stem 6-8 in. in diam. Leaves even-pinnate, 3-6 in. 

 long ; leaflets 2- (very rarely only 1-) paired, sometimes only subopposite, 

 subcoriaceous, glabrous on both surfaces, oblong, base rounded, apex 

 obtuse, emarginate or retuse, 2-4 in. long, 15-2 in. wide, nerves numer- 

 ous fine spreading reticulate, petiolules distinct, *15 in. long, glabrous 

 as is the rachis. Flowers in numerous terminal simple rarely slightly 

 branched few-flowered glabrous racemes 2*5-3 in. long ; pedicels 

 stout glabrous, '5 in. long, bracteoles ovate-oblong, glabrous, *2 in. 

 long, very early caducous as are the similar bracts. Galyx quite 

 glabrous, tube slightly dilated upwards, *5 in. long, somewhat exceed- 

 ing limb with 4 subequal oblong spreading lobes *35 in. long, -25 

 in. wide. Petal '7 in. long, limb *6 in. wide, '4 in. deep with rounded 

 waved apex and wide-cuneate entire base, white or pinkish, claw very 

 slender 3 in. long ; pubescent along claw and midrib externally. Stamens 

 3 fertile, filaments 1*25 in., sparsely pubescent, pink. Ovary stalked, 

 pubescent on lower suture, soon glabrous, style glabrous slender, 1*5 in. 

 long. Pod 5-6 in. long, 2 in. wide, oblong, rigid, curved, coriaceous. Seeds 

 orbicular, 1 in. in diam., "25 in. thick. Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. II, 274. 



Andamans ; very common on all the coasts. Perak ; Wray 2491 ! 

 Pangkofe ; Scortechini 975 ! Malacca ; Griffith 1855 ! Singapore ; Ridley 

 4675 ! 6006 ! Distrib. Gangetic Delta. 



Very nearly related to A. bijuga and perhaps only a variety of that species. 



