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oblong or elongate, flat or somewhat turgid, 2-valved. Arillus 
and albumen none.—Unarmed trees, with abruptly pinnate leaves. 
' Stipules small, deciduous. Flowers racemose, forming short lateral 
: and terminal panicles. 
1. S. Indica, L; Bedd. Sylv. Madr. t. 57 (except the pod) ; 
Brand. For. Fl. 166.—Thaw-ha-hpo.—An evergreen tree (25—30 
+58—12+2—3), all parts glabrous ; leaves abruptly pinnate, 3-14 
ft. long, glabrous; leaflets in 4-5 pairs, on a thick 1-2 lin. long 
petiolule, oblong to oblong-lanceolate, shortly acuminate to blunt- 
ish, 4-6 in. long, thin coriaceous, entire; flowers middling-sized, 
scarlet, on }-1 in. long scarlet smooth pedicels 2-bracteoled at 
middle, forming a glabrous usually nodding more or less crowded 
cymose panicle at the end of the branchlets and lateral; bracts 
smaller than the bractlets, triangular-acute ; calyx glabrous, scarlet, 
the tube about 4 an in. long, the lobes elliptical, about 8 lin. long, 
rounded ; pods flat, elongate oblong-lanceolate, woody coriaceous, 
3-% ft. long, long-stalked, smooth. 
Has.—Tropical forests of Arracan, as, e. g., B 
Fl. Oct.—s.—SS.=SiS. 
CYNOMETRA, L. 
Sepals at the base very shortly united, the free part separating 
into 4 imbricate segments, the upper one rather broader. Petals 5, 
nearly equal. Stamens 10 or more, free ; filaments filiform ; anthers 
uniform. Ovary nearly sessile, with 2 ovules; style subulate, with 
a small terminal stigma. Pod obliquely half-orbicular, fleshy and 
often edible, turgid, 2-valved. Seed usually solitary —Unarmed 
trees or shrubs, with abruptly pinnate leaves, the leaflets in few 
pairs only. Flowers small, in axillary or lateral clusters or racemes. 
Flowers in short umbel-like puberulous racemes ; ovary villous « C. ramiflora, 
Flowers in longer or shorter bracted racemes ; pedicels glabrous ; 
ovary glabrous or puberulous . 3 . . . : - C. cauliflora. 
1. C. ramiflora, L.; Bedd. Sylv. Madr. t.315.—Myeng-hka-pen.— 
An evergreen tree (15—25 +4—10+4 1—2), all parts glabrous or the 
young shoots puberulous; leaves abruptly pinnate, 2-6 in, long, 
the rachis strong and glabrous or slender and puberulous ; leaflets 
in 1 or 2 pairs, obliquely obovate-oblong to almost falcate-oblong, 
sessile or nearly so, 1-3 in. long, entire, very blunt or shortly and 
bluntish acuminate, coriaceous, glabrous ; flowers s ; white, on 
slender 3-4 lin. long puberulous pedicels, forming small umbel-like 
clusters above the axils of the fallen leaves; bracts very deciduous ; 
¢alyx about a line long; stamens 10; ovary tawny villous; pods 
fleshy and strongly wrinkled, irregularly oblong or ovoid, terminat- 
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ing in a fleshy thick acumen, about } in. long and nearly as broad, 
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