Amherstia. | LEGUMINOSA. 411 
bearing base more than } an inch long, the wing 1} in. long by 
nearly an inch broad, semi-oblong, rounded at the apex, the inner 
suture straight. 
Has.—Frequent in the mixed forests, aoa age! along choungs, from Pegu 
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and Martaban down to Tenasserim.—Fr, Jan.—. 
AMHERSTIA, Wall. 
The disk-hearing calyx-tube elongate; segments 4, petaloid, 
somewhat unequal, imbricate. Petals 5, the upper innermost one 
very broadly obcordate, the 2 lowermost ones minute or rudiment- 
ary. Stamens 10, alternately shorter, 9 of them connate at base. 
Ovary stalked, many-ovuled ; style filiform with a terminal stigma. 
Pod elongate, flat compressed, 2-valved, the upper suture thickened- 
dilated. Seeds very compressed, without albumen.— Unarmed trees, 
with abruptly pinnate leaves and narrow, leafy, deciduous stipules. 
owers showy, in drooping terminal racemes. Bracts very decidu- 
ous; bractlets ample, highly coloured, persistent. 
1. A. nobilis, Wall.—Ziaw-ha or so-ka.—An evergreen tree, 30— 
- 40 ft. high, the young shoots shortly puberulous; leaves 1-14 ft. 
long, abruptly pinnate, while very young minutely puberulous 
beneath, soon quite glabrous ; leaflets in 6-8 pairs, on a thick 1-3 lin. 
long petiolule, oblong to ovate-oblong, rounded at the base, long 
and slenderly acuminate, 3-5 in. long, entire, chartaceous, glabrous, 
somewhat glaucescent beneath ; flowers large and showy, crimson, 
with the 3 lower petals yellow towards the apex, on 3-4 in. long 
minutely puberous pedicels furnished with a pair of 1} in. long 
broadly lanceolate, acuminate, crimson, minutely puberulous bract- 
s, forming long almost glabrous drooping racemes at the end of 
the branchlets ; sepals glabrous, linear-oblong, rather blunt; petals 
glabrous, waved, about 3 in. long; ovary tawny-pubescent ; pods 
oblong, flat, glabrous, on a long stalk, about 7 in. long. 
Has.—Tenasserim.—Fl. Jan.-Apr.—s. 
AFZELIA, Sm. 
stalked, with 8 to 10 or more ovules. Pod more or less oblong, 2- 
valved. Seeds separated by transverse spongy septa, with a cup- 
os. P + ill - base. 2 8 > pe ; with abruptly pinnate leaves. aes 
