494 D. Pram — Some additional Leguminosce. [No. 2 7 



113. AFZELIA Smith. 



1. Afzelia retusa Kurz. 



Add to localities of F. B. I. : — Bengal ; Sundribuns, Ellis ! 



This has often a branched inflorescence and often also has acute leaflets, so that 

 the only character left to distinguish it from A. bijuga is the absence of pubescence 

 from its pedicels and calyx. It might be as well to treat it as only a variety of A. 



bijuga. 



2. Afzelia bijuga A. Gray. 



Add to synonyms of F. B. I. : — Jonesia triandra Rozb. Flor. Ind. 

 ii. 220. 



3. Afzelia palembanica Bah. 



The synonym Intsia palembanica Miq. must be deleted because Miquel's plant, 

 though near this, has very different, much larger bracts. It will be necessary for 

 whoever may monograph the genus Afzelia to re-name this species A. Balceri. 



4. Afzelia ? coriacea is a Sindora. 



113&. PAHUDIA Miq. 



Erect unarmed trees. Leaves abruptly pinnate with few pairs of 

 opposite leaflets. Flowers racemose in sessile or peduncled terminal 

 panicles. Calyx with a disc produced to the top of its somewhat elon- 

 gated tube ; sepals 4 much imbricated slightly unequal. Developed 

 petal one, orbicular, short-clawed, the lower ones rudimentary or want- 

 ing. Stamens 7 declinate united high up into a slit sheath, the fila- 

 ments unequal and free at the summit, and with 2 small staminodes 

 at the base of the staminal tube ; anthers small oblong dehiscing longi- 

 tudinally. Ovary stalked few-ovuled, style filiform with a small ter- 

 minal stigma. Pod large oblong, thick and woody, 2-valved, dehiscing, 

 smooth. Seeds with a large basal arillate funiculus. Species 2, one 

 Malayan, one Indo-Chinese. 



1. Pahudia xtlocarpa Kurz in For. Flor. Brit. Burm. i. 413. 



Shan Hills ; Dr. King's Collector 134 ! Distrib. Siam. 



A tree with puberulous and pruinose branchlets. Leaves short-petioled, leaflets 

 2-3-paired, with distinct petiolules, ovate, rounded at base, slightly acuminate at tip, 

 thinly papery, glabrous shining above, glaucescent beneath, 3-3*5 in. long. Flowers 

 in a grey-pubescent terminal panicle, the individual racemes few-fid. ; pedicels short 

 thick ; sepals grey-velvety obovate, concave, the outer pair about '25 in., the inner pair 

 '2 in. long. Pods rhomboid oblong, thick- valved and somewhat turgid, 4-5 in. long. 

 Seeds 2, compressed, orbicular, enclosed in a medullary endocarp, about 1*25 in. 

 across, resting on a horny, arillate, much expanded funiculus. 



A very interesting addition to the Burmese Flora. The species was first collect- 

 ed in Siam by Mr. Teysmann, and has recently been sent from the southern Shan 

 Hills by one of the collectors of the Calcutta Botanic Garden. 



