244 Gr. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. 1, 



Penang ; Waterfall, Curtis 2840 ! King ! Perak ; Larut, Kunstler 

 3991 ! Scortechini 197 ! 1849 ! Assam Kumbong Wray 2124 ! Pankore ; 

 Scortechini 1073 ! Singapore ; Bukit Timah, Hullett 880 ! Bukit Mandai, 

 Ridley 3636 A ! Malacca ; Miller ! Griffith ! Maingay 591 ! Berry 522 ! 



The seeds are not always black and red but are sometimes concolorous red jusfc 

 as is usual in A. pavonina. The nearest ally of this species is one obtained in 

 Borneo by Mr. Hullett. This Mr. Hullett notes as " a good-sized tree," from 

 Sarawak (Hullett 292) ; Mr. Brace in the Calcutta Herbarium has named it A. borne- 

 ensis Brace. The diagnosis between the two species may be given as follows : — 

 Pinnae 3-4 pairs ; leaflets 8-10, acute at apex, always under 

 2 in. long, 15 times as long as broad, pale-green above, 

 glaucous and puberulous beneath ; flowers not longer than 

 pedicels ... ... ... ... ... 1. A. bicolor. 



Pinnae 2 pairs ; leaflets 4-5, acuminate at apex, usually over 

 2 in. long, twice as long as broad, dark-green above, glabrous 

 and not glaucous beneath ; flowers twice as long as pedicels... 2. A. borneensis. 

 The flowers of A. borneensis are considerably larger than those of A. bicolor. 

 Dr. Griffith has noted that the Malay name of A. bicolor in Malacca is " Bunah 

 Saga; " Mr. Derry gives it as 



61. Neptunia Lour. 



Herbs without prickles, Leaves bipinnate, with persistent stipules 

 and numerous small strap-shaped sensitive membranous leaflets. Flowers 

 minute, dimorphous, in dense heads on axillary peduncles, polygamous, 

 those of the lower part of the head bearing only protruded flattened 

 staminodia. Calyx minute, campanulate, 5-toothed. Petals 5, strap- 

 shaped, connate near the base. Stamens of the perfect flowers exserted ; 

 anthers gland-crested. Ovary stalked, many-ovuled ; style filiform, 

 stigma club-shaped. Pod coriaceous, flattened, ligulate or oblong, 2- 

 valved. Species 8 ; cosmopolitan in the tropics. 



Neptunia oleracea Lour. Fl. Cochinch. 654. An unarmed herb 

 with annual wide-creeping softish swollen stems, rarely emitting sub- 

 erect branches, rooting copiously at the leaf and flower-bearing nodes. 

 Leaves 2-pinnate, rachis (including petiole 1*5 in.) 2*5-3 in. long, 

 glabrous ; pinnae 4-6, 2-3 in. long, with stalk '3 in. long; leaflets 8-15- 

 jugate, narrow-oblong, obtuse, glabrous, 35-'5 in. long, 2 in. wide. 

 Peduncles ascending 3-12 in. long, glabrous ; flowers minute, in dense 

 heads '5-75 in. long, *5 in. across, the lower replaced by numerous 

 ligulate yellow staminodes '25— 'B in. long, bracts small ovate subobtuse. 

 Corolla *05 in. long. Pod oblong, oblique, 5-1 in. long, *35 in. wide, 

 beaked, dry, dehiscing early by the upper suture. Seeds 6-9, transverse, 

 narrow-oval, somewhat pointed towards hilum, obtuse at opposite end, 

 "2 in. long, *12 in. wide, '1 in. thick, testa brown, polished. Benth. in 

 Hook. Journ. IV, 354; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, 50 ; Bak. in. Flor. Brit. Ind. 



