1S76.] Knowledge of the Burmese Mora. 283 



+ + Perfect stamens 7. Pods much compressed. Flowers yellow. 

 Pods not winged. 



t Pods straight and acute. Trees or shrubs. 



A Stipules none or very deciduous. Trees. Petals 

 | in. long. 

 Adult parts glabrous ; bracts small, persistent, obovatewith a subulate point longer than 



the blade ; leaflets in 6 — 10 pairs, \\ — 2 in. long ; pods velvety, C. Siamea. 



All parts pubescent ; bracts leafy, broad-ovate, about \ in. long ; leaflets in 10 — 20 



pairs, 1 — lj in. long; pods glabrous, C. Timoriensis. 



A A Stipules large, cordate-semilunate, persistent. 

 More or less pubescent ; leaflets in 8 — 10 pairs, \ — f in. long ; bracts ovate to obovate 

 lanceolate, 3 — 4 lin. long ; petals nearly an in. long ; pods shortly and rather thinly 



pubescent, C. auriculata. 



f f Pods lunate. 

 Glabrous perennial ; calyx glabrous ; petals 3 — 4 lin. long ; pods shortly stalked, 



glabrous, . . * C. obovata. 



Pods broadly 4- winged. Flowers large, orange-yellow. 

 Shrubby herb, almost glabrous ; leaves abruptly pinnate, the rachis almost winged- 

 angular ; bracts yellow, obovate-oblong, about an in. long, deciduous ; pods 



glabrous, G. alata* 



x x Pods more or less terete to 4-gonous. Seeds transverse, oblique or 

 rarely parallel with the valves. (Herbs ; flowers yellow). 

 4- Seeds transverse or oblique. 

 Leaves abruptly 4 pinnate, glabrous, leaflets in 4 — 12 pairs, acuminate ; calyx glabrous ; 



petals about \ in. long ; ovary glabrous, C. occidentalis. 



+ + Seeds parallel with the valves. 

 Leaves abruptly pinnate, leaflets in. 3 — 2 pairs, blunt ; petals nearly \ in. long ; ovary 



shortly pubescent, C. Tora. 



* * Pods opening elastically at both sutures. Funicle very short. Perfect an- 

 thers 10 or fewer by abortion, opening by slits. Serbs ; flowers yellow, small 

 (Lasiorhegma) . 

 More or less prostrate ; leaflets in 8 — 15 pairs, 2 J — 3 \ lin. long ; basal gland of rachis 



long-stalked ; pedicels 1 — 2 lin. long, C. pumila. 



Erect, branched ; leaflets in 15 — 30 pairs, 1 — 3 lin. long ; basal glands of rachis sessile ; 

 pedicels up to \ — f in. long, C. mimosoides. 



1. C. Fistula, L. sp. pi. 440 ; WA. Prod. I. 285 ; Koxb. Fl. Ind. II. 

 333 ; Btk. in Linn. Trans. XXVII. 514. (Cathartocarpus Fistula, Pers. 

 Syn. I. 459 ; Wight Icon. t. 269 ; O. rliomblfolla, Koxb. Fl. Ind. II. 334J. 



Hab. Frequent in the leaf-shedding forests, especially in the savan- 

 nah and mixed ones, all over Burma and adjacent provinces. — Fl. Apr. ; 

 Fr. CS. 



2. C. nodosa, Ham. in Eoxb. Fl. Ind. II. 336 ; Wight Icon. t. 410 ; 

 Bth. in Linn. Trans. XXVII. 517. (Cathartocarpus nodosus, Voigt Hort. 

 Suburb. Calc. 248.) 



Hab. Eather rare in the tropical forests of Martaban down to Upper 

 Tenasserim ; also Chittagong. — Fl. Apr. ; Fr. CS. 



