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above, paler beneath, secondary veins 4-5 pairs and intermediate reti- 

 culations faint ; petiolules '2 in. long. Inflorescence a terminal or axillary 

 panicle of simple or occasionally branched racemes, 1-1*5 feet long, 

 with terete glabrous main-rachis ; single racemes 4-8 in. long ; pedicels 

 close-set, slender, *3 in. long, jointed a little above the middle. Calyx 

 yellow, quite glabrous, leathery, anterior sepal cucullate, obtuse, *25 in. 

 long, the rest orbicular, tube shallow. Corolla *45 in. across, pale-green, 

 standard 2-lobed, shorter but wider than the other subequal orbicular 

 4. Stamens far exserted, puberulous at base, decimate, unequal. Ovary 

 declinate, 1-2-ovuled. Pod thin, 3-3*5 in. long, 1'25 in. wide (includ- 

 ing wing "3 in. wide), faintly reticulated ; seeds usually solitary, very 

 rarely 2. 



Andamans ; common. Distrib. Eastern Himalaya, India, Indo- 

 China. 



2. Mezoneuron hymenocarpum W. & A. Prodr. I, 283. A large 

 climber, brauches finely puberulous, with a few scattered recurved 

 brown prickles. Leaves 1-15 feet long, pinnae 1-10, 3-4 in. long, leaflets 

 10-14, alternate or subopposite, rigidly subcoriaceous, obovate, apex 

 obtuse or rounded, base cuneate unequal, '5—1 in. long, '25-'6 in. wide, 

 puberulous above, puberulous to densely pubescent beneath, secondary 

 veins 5-6 pairs very faint ; petiolules '15 in. long. Inflorescence a large 

 terminal thyrsoid panicle of unbi anched racemes extending into the 

 axils of the uppermost leaves, 2 feet long, 8-10 in. wide, the single 

 racemes 6-8 in. long, puberulous as are the main-rachis and slender 

 pedicels, '35— "5 in. long, jointed '15 in. under base of calyx. Calyx 

 densely puberulous, leathery, anterior sepal cucullate subacute, '25 in. 

 long, the others orbicular. Corolla "5 in. across, yellow, petals ovate - 

 orbicular, upper small. Stamens far exserted. hirsute at base, declinate, 

 unequal. Ovary decimate, about 5-ovuled ; stigma slightly fringed. 

 Pod thin, 4 in. long, when ripe 1 in. wide (including posterior wing 

 *25-'3 in wide), faintly wide-reticulated, 5-seeded. Csesalpinia hymeno- 

 carpa Wall. Cat. 5832. Mezoneuron pnbescens Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. IT, 

 259 not of Desf . 



Andamans ; very plentiful near Port Blair, Kings Collectors ! Dis- 

 trib. Burma ; Ceylon. 



ttesembles if. andamanicum but is easily distinguished by its leaves and its 

 calyx being pubescent; by its pedicels being shorter; and by its pods being smaller 

 and not so distinctly reticulated. 



3. Mezoneuron Kunstleri Prain. A large climber, branches gla- 

 brous, with a few brown scattered recurved prickles. Leaves 6-8 in. 

 long, pinnae 4-6, 4-5 in. long, leaflets 6-8, alternate, subcoriaceous, ovate, 

 cuneate at apex and base, almost equally decurrent on the short petiolule, 

 J. ii. 30 



