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free, few-ovuled ; style filiform, with a minute terminal stigma. 
Pod 2-valved ed, broad, ri gidly coriaceous, usually echinate, often 1-2- 
seeded. Seeds eg with a large basilar arillus-like strophiole.— 
Trees, with paired-pinnate leaves. Flowers racemose, one-sided, in 
ter panicles. Stipules large, like the bracts and bractlets 
caducous. 
1. §, Siamensis, Miq.—An evergreen tree, the young parts 
tawny puberulous ; stipules rather large, falcate-lunate, deciduous ; 
leaves abruptly pinnate, shortly petioled, the rachis terete glabrescent; 
leaflets usually in 3 pairs, obovate, very shortly petioluled, obtuse or 
acute at the base, more or less notched, coriaceous, 14-2 in. long, 
densely and elegantly ethers puberulous, 8 margins somewhat 
thickened and reflexed ; flowers shortly pedicelled, bracted, racemose, 
densely tawny velvety, muricate at the apex; pods broadly oval, 
3-4 in. long, flat, thick coriaceous, distantly but strongly ec ae 
glabrous ; seeds compressed orbicular, about 3 in. across, the 
Itke strophiole half the size of the seed, in a dried state horny. 
Has.—Adjoining provinces of Siam.—Fl. Fr. HS. 
PAHUDIA, Mig. 
Calyx-tube disk-bearing, more or less elongate, the limb 4- 
parted, the lobes decussately imbricate. Petal one only developed, 
_. Shortly clawed, the lower ones very rudimentary or altogether 
wanting. Stamens 7, declinate, united high up into a slit goa 
the filaments unequal land free at the summit, often mall 
staminodes situated at the base of the staminal tube ; anthers longi 
tudinally ae ie stalked, etter itr igs: vcd ea Be 
like strophiole——Trees, with sine leaves. Flowers race- 
mose, in sessile or —— terminal panicles. Stipules, bracts, 
and bractlets very caducous 
P. xylocarpa, Kz ak tree, the branchlets pruinose, and 
while young somewhat puberulous ; leaves paired-pinnate, shortly 
petioled, the rachis very slender, glabrous ; leaflets in 2 (in the 
floral ones only in single) pairs, on a thick about 14-2 lin. long 
petiolule, more or less oval, rounded at the base, more or less 
notched, thin chartaceous, 3-34 in. long, glabrous, glaucescent 
beneath, the net-veination thin and lax; flowers almost one-sided, 
racemose, on short thick pedicels, forming grey-puberulous oe 
panicles; sepals grey-velvet, about 24 lin. long, eoncave-obova 
hick sem Bombe ees: E loe 
