BauMnia.] l. leguminosj!. (J. G. Baker.) 283 



2-Talved much shorter than the cylindrical tuhe, petals glahrous exserted. 

 Phanera glauca, Smth. PI. Jungh. 265 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. 68, t. 2, A. 



Tenasseeim, Maetahan, Penang. — DisTBiB. Malay isles, China. 



Sranchlets slender, soon glahresoent, with copious tendrils. Leaves the smallest 

 and deepest cleft of the section, cordate, firm, 1-3 in. long, the ribs at first pilose, the 

 apicf^l lohes always obtuse. Flowers in copious dense short-peduncled or sessile ter- 

 minal corymbs ; pedicels slender, erecto-patent, i-1 in., with several setaceous persis- 

 tent bracteoles. Calyx-txihe ^ in. ; linlb | in., refiexed, thinly silky. Fertile 

 stamens 3. Ovary- glabrous, with a short stalk, moderately long style and small 

 stigma. Poii thin, firm, indehiscent, glossy, 6-8 in. by l|-2 in., with 10-12 small 

 seeds down the middle, like B. diphyUa. — Only distinguishable from the Chinese B: 

 corymbosa, Eoxb. ; Wall. Cat. 5388, by its broad indehiscent pod. A plant gathered 

 hy Hooker and Thomson in Khasia, without flower, has a pod like B. glauca, but the 

 leaves are larger, thinner, and much less deeply cleft. 



Vak. parmfolia, Teysm. & Binend. sp. ; leaves very small ^-Jin. long cleft nearly 

 to base clothed beneath with fine ferruginous silky pubescence, corymbs few-flowered, 

 Sikcapoeb, Br. Oxley. 



31. B. ferrug^lnea, Roxh. Fl. Ind. ii. 331 ; cirrhose, pubescence bright 

 ferruginous, leaves 9-11-nerved not cleft down to the middle, pedicels long, calyx- 

 limb 5-cleft rather exceeding the ampuUseform tube, petals exserted densely 

 silky. Wall. Cat. 6776 ; KoHh. in Nat. Verh. Sot. t. 23. B. Pottsii, O. Don 

 Gen. Syst. ii. 462. Phanera ferruginea, Senth. PL Jvmgh. 262. 



Pexang, Malacca, Sincapohe. — Disteij?. Malay isles. 



BraneUets soon glabrescent, with a few stout woody tendrils. Leaves rigidly sub- 

 coriaceous, deeply cordate at both ends, 2-4 in. long, with the ribs at , first rusty- 

 pubescent. Flowers in ample termpal racemes, ^-^ ft. long ; pedicels erecto-patentj 

 clothed like the calyx with bright rusty silky pubescence, 1^-2 in, long ; bracts mi- 

 nute, lanceolate, caducous. Calyx-tohei ^ in. long ; sepals lanceblate. Coriaceous, 

 distinct. Petals oblanceolate, clawed. Stamens 3. Ovary densely rusty-silky, with 

 a long stalk and style and very large oblique stigma. Fod smooth, thin, J ft. long, 

 I^ in. broad. 



Vae. 1. Griffithiana, (Phanera Griffithiana, Benth. Fl. Jungh. 263), a form with 

 lia^ge round persistent stipules. — Malacca, Griffith, Maingay. 



Vae. 2. excdsa, (Phanera excelsa, Blume ; Miq.Fl. Ind. Bat.'i. 62) ; calyx- tube ob- 

 long |-| in. long much stouter than in the type ( J-f in.), sepals above an inch long. — 

 Malacca, Griffith. Distrib. Malay isles.' 



32. 8. nervosa, Wall. Cat. 6777 ; cirrhose, pubescence thin ferruginous, 

 leaves 11-15-nerved not lobed half-way down, pedicels long, calyx-limb 6-cleft 

 as long as the cylindrical tube, petals ^Iky exserted. Phanera nervosa, Benth. 

 PI. Jungh. 262. 



SiiHET, Wallich. Assam, Griffith. Khasia Mts., 1-3000 ft., Hook. fil. ^ Thomson. 



A robust climber, with thinly silky branchlets. Leaves rigidly subcoriaeeous, deeply 

 cfirdate, middle-sized, rather longer than broad, at first thinly silky on the ribs, the 

 contiguous lobes sometimes subacute. Flowers in copious elongated terminal racemesj 

 with branches clothed with bright rusty-silky pubescence ; bracts lanceolate, silky, 

 caducous ; pedicels erecto-patent, lower i-2 in. long. Calyx-tnhe i-| in., not narrowed 

 , upwards ; sepals coriaceous, finally distmct. Petals, stamens and o^ary as in the lastl 

 Pod ^ ft. long, 2 in. broad, thin, firm, strongly veined. 



33. B. pboenlcea, Meyne in Wall. Cat. 6800 ; ecirrhose, leaves 9-nerved-, 

 pubescence thin dark ferruginous, pedicels short, sepals not fully distinct as long 

 as the cylindrical tube, petels glabrous little exserted. W. '§• A. Prodir. 296. 

 B, Benthami, Bedd. Ic. t. 107. B. rufloarpa, Dem. in Ann. 8c. Nat. ix. 430 ? 

 Phanera phoenicea, Benth. PI. Jvmgh. 262. 



