412 LEGUMINOSZE. [ Sindora. 
oats in thifninal racemes often collected into panicles. Bractlets 
deciduo 
Inflorescence and calyx puberulous; pods 4-1 ft. eee ses ; 
leaves usually bluntis . A. bijuga, 
Inflorescence and = smooth ; pods 3- 4i in. long, thin coriaceous 
leaves notched * . A. retusa. 
1s lin. long puberulous petiolules, oval to to ovate-oblong, 
Dluntish to bluntish acuminate, rarely retuse, 14-24 in. long, eo 
chartaceous, glabrou ; flowers rather small, white, on pube 
$-4 in. long hice pedicels, forming puberulous racemes suid 
y 2 or 3 or more collected in a terminal panicle; calyx velvety, 
the tube 2-3 lin. long, the lobes obovate-oblong, about 4 lin. lo 
petals glabrous, the — one $ “ in. long, orbinel undulate, 
clawed ; pods woody, up to 4-1 ft. long by 2 in. broad, oblong, 
eurved, glabrous, apiculate, sessile ; aa ovoid-oblong, compressed, 
about an inch long. 
Has.—Not unfrequent in the coast and beach jungles of the Andaman 
Islands.—Fl. May-June ; Fr. Apr.—l. 
RemarKs.—Used in the Aniininies for beams and girders of bridges and 
for posts. well. 
2. A. retusa, Kz.—An evergreen tree, 15-20 ft. high, all parts 
quite glabrous ; leaves abruptly Brae the rachis very short, 
glabrous ; leaflets in a single or airs, more or less oval, some- 
what oblique, very shortly e tiolued: 14 to 2 in. long, entire, charta- 
ceous, notched, glabrous ; flowers rather small, white, on about 4 lin. 
abrous pedicels, forming short glabrous simple racemes at the 
end of thé branchlets ; bractlets under the calyx 2, small, concave- 
a: persistent ; calyx smooth, the tube “ieee 4 lin. long, 
lobes obovate, as long as the tube ; pods oblong, 3-4 in. long 
by 1-13 broad > thin coriaceous, glabrous, somewhat curved along 
the thickened ‘sutures 
ot uent along the in tidal and beach 
f Fl, No unfreuent along é coast of bce Andamans, 
SINDORA, Mig. 
ae a ; es disk-bearing, very short or none, the limb 4-parted, 
valvate or nearly so. Petal 1 only, sessile. Stamens 
, shortly and sale monadelphous, the uppermost one 
“without anther, the 2 following perfect, the 7 others short, and 
3 anthers longitudinally dehiscing. Ovary shortly stalked, 
