80 POLYGALER. [ Seeuridaca. 
long, on a petiole $-} in. long, pea membranous, glabrous 
or puberulous; flowers 4 im. long, yellow, racemose, and usually 
forming terminal panicles ; jauce ‘linear, deciduous ; 3; sepals very 
unequal, deciduous, the upper one very concave, the 2 lower ones 
‘small, ovate, the wings very large, ovate, purple; keel-crest 2-lobed, 
the lobes many-cleft ; capsule 3-$ in. long, broadly reniform, 
fleshy-coriaceous, in a dried state wrinkled, glabrous ; ; seeds large, 
globose, the siraphivle large, orange-coloured. 
Hazs.—Ava hills. 
SECURIDACA, L. 
Sepals unequal, the 2 inner ones erect and petal-like. Petals 
unequal, the 2 lateral ones minute or wanting, the lowermost con- 
cave and hooded. Stamens 8, the filaments united. Ovary 1-celled 
with a solitary ovule. Fruit a l-celled and 1-seeded samara. 
bumen none.—Scandent shrubs, sie simple leaves and terminal 
or see! simple or r compound racemes. 
. §. ina la Hasek. (S. Tavoyana, Wall.; H.f. Ind. 
FL 3 1. 208 8) A mete woody climber, the young” shoots minutely 
a ous ; leaves oblong to elliptically ovate, 3-4 in. long, rather — 
shortly petioled, obtuse or acute at base, apiculate or shortly acumi« 
nate, membranous, glabrous, glaucescent beneath ; flowers red, on 
long and slender pedicels, in racemes forming a compound rather 
lax terminal panicle ; inner sepals about 3 lin. long, keel nearly as 
long ; the lateral petals wholly wanting ; samara glabrous, with 
much raised veins, ending in a wing fully 2 in. long by 3 broad, 
the inner edge thickened. 
ae Tenasserim.—Fl. Aug. 
XANTHOPHYLLUM, Roxb. 
Sepals somewhat unequal. Petals 5, free, declinate, the keel- 
petal ee Stamens 8, all free or partially adnate to the 
petals. Disk hypogynous, annular. Ovary 1-celled or imperfectly 
— with 2 or more ovules variously attached; style elongate. 
t globular, with a thick rind, often l-seeded. Albumen none. 
op thick and fleshy, the radicle short.—Trees or shrubs, 
with alternate simple leaves. Flowers in racemes or panicles. 
Ov ile. 
© Panicle remotely supra-axillary (and sermenne = . X, virens. 
0° Panicle or racemes truly axillary (and terminal). 
vary and s — villo ous. Leaves glaucescent beneath. 
1 Y-I thick, 14-2 lin. long, — 
_ lous . X. eglanduloswin. 
es slender, in lax tomentose tomentose panicles ; pedicels ste slender . . X. glaucwm 
_*X Ovary glabrous, the style slender, pubesce: 2S sles 
kK 6 Og = a oe with a oe ‘thick 
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