468 D. Prain — Some additional Leguminosae. [No. 2, 



125 in. broad, the valves blackish, rugose externally, slightly swollen 

 opposite the ripe seeds, each thickened into a distinct rib along the 

 upper suture; seeds 2-4, bright scarlet, small ('35 in. long, *25 in. 

 wide), separated by partitions of the tawny suberous lining in which 

 they are embedded, without any trace of arillus. 



36. Ormosia gracilis Prain, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. Ixvi. 2. 148 ; 

 leaflets 7-9, ovate-lanceolate, pale grey-green, flowers in terminal 

 racemes, pedicels shorter than calyx, pod rather small, irregularly 

 orbicular with compressed thick valves. 



Perak ; Larut, S cor t echini ! Kunstler ! Wray ! 



A graceful tree with brown glabrous branches. Leaflets chartaceous, tips caudate- 

 acuminate, 25-3 in. long, the veins immersed. Racemes in lax terminal panicles ; 

 bracts and bracteoles, especially the latter, minute but persisting. Calyx *25 in., 

 finely silky, teeth rather longer than tube except the upper 2. Corolla pale-yellow, 

 '35 in. long. Ovary ovate-lanceolate ; ovules 2. Pod hard, thick, covered with a 

 bluish-grey bloom, 1*5 in. long, 1*25 in. wide. Seed usually solitary, oblong, 75 in. 

 long, with a black adnate smooth aril. 



A very fine and distinct species. 



46. Ormosia nitida Prain, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. Ixvi. 2. 149 ; 

 leaflets 7, obovate or elliptic very dark-green, shining above, flowers 

 in terminal panicles, pedicels shorter than calyx, pod subcompressed 

 with thin valves, seeds oval compressed bright-red, without arillus. 



Perak; G opi n g, Kunstler ! 



A tree 30-50 feet high, with rusty-brown glabrescent branches. Leaflets very 

 rigidly coriaceous, apex rounded abruptly cuspidate, glossy deep-green, 2*5-4 in. long, 

 1*5-2 in. wide, veins numerous slender. Flowers in fastigiate panicles. Calyx "2 in. 

 long. Corolla unknown. Pod irregularly oblong, 1 in. long, '75 in. across, thinly 

 woody, rigid, quite glabrous, black externally, shortly stipitate. Seed usually, if not 

 always, solitary, "35 in. long, '3 in. wide. 



5. Ormosia microsperma Bah. 



Add to synonyms : — 0. coarctata Kurz, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xlii. 

 2. 71, hardly of Jackson. Add to localities : — Perak ; Kunstler ! 



Mr. Kurz's reduction of Chxnolohium Miq., to Ormosia is certainly just, but his 

 further reduction of C. septemjugum and of C. decemjugum t6 each other and then to 

 the species under review, seems somewhat premature ; for the present Miquel's plants 

 should be known as Ormosia septemjuga and 0. decemjuga. They appear to be more 

 nearly related to the next species than to 0. microsperma but seem at the same time quite 

 distinct from each other as well as from both O. microsperma and 0. sumatrana. 

 Like many of Dr. Miquel's species, these two were based on very inadequate 

 material, certainly much too incomplete to have justified the foundation of a genus. 



Add also as a new variety : — 



Var. Bidleyi Prain, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. Ixvi. 2. 151 ; pedicels 

 distinct, pods more persistently pubescent. 

 Singapore ; Selitar, Ridley 5574 ! 



