208 XVI. poLYGALEiE. (A. W. Benn&tt.) 



oblique'pores. Ovary l-celled, l-ovuled. Fruit a 1-celled samara, 1-seeded, 

 ■wing broad coriaceous. Seeds exalbuminous, estrophiolate. — Disteib. 

 Species about 25 ; most numerous in tropical America, rarer in tropical 

 Africa and Asia. 



1. S. Tavoyana, Wall. Cat. 4196 ; leaves eUiptic or obovate-oblong 

 minutely pubescent beneath, flowers in loose subcorymbose panicles, wings 

 elliptic. S. scandens, Ham. in Wall. Gat. 4195 {not of Jacq.) ; Hassk. in 

 Miq. Ann. Miis. i. 190. S. painiculata. Wall, {not o/Lamk.). S. inappendi- 

 culata, Hassk. PI. Jav. Bar. 295. Lophostylis javanica, Miq. PI. Ned. Ind. i. 

 pt. 2, 128. 



Eastern Bekqal, from Silhet and Chittagong to Rangoon. — Distrib. Java, China. 



A large woody scandent shrub; branches striate, branchlets puberulous. Leaves 

 3-5 by 14-2 in., generally acuminate, glabrous, paler beneath. Flowers \ in., the 

 lower with considerably longer (4 in.) pedicels than the upper. Outer sepah nearly 

 equal, ovate, sbovtly ciliate ; wings elliptic, obtuse. Lateral petals adnate at the base, 

 to the keel, truncate ; keel with a conspicuous but scarcely fimbriate crest. Ovary 

 orbicular ; style unilateral, curved at right angles near the tip. Samara 2J-3| in. ; 

 nucleus very rugose ; wiug very large and strongly veined, oblique, tip rounded, margin 

 entire, veins arched. 



2. S. bracteata, A. W. Benn. ; leaves elliptic puberulous beneath, 

 flowers in panicled racemes, wings orbicular, wing of fruit strongly veined.. 



Malacca, Maingay. 



A large scandent shrub ; branches terete, hoary-pubescent. Leaves elliptic, acu- 

 minate, margins revolute when dry, beneath finely pubescent glaucous. Flowers \ in., 

 pedicels J in. Bracts ovate, acuminate, pubescent, persistent after flowering. Oicter 

 sepals nearly equal, large ovate, very hairy, ciliate ; wings scarcely twice as long, 

 pubescent externally. Lateral petals truncate ; keel with a recurved, plaited crest. 

 Ovary orbicular; style curved. Fruit unknown. Samara 3-34 ^^-i similar to that of 

 S. Tavoyana, but contracted for a longer space above the nucleus. 



4. TRXGONXASTRUBI, Miquel. 



A shrub or small tree. Leaves hoary beneath. Flowers in slender ter- 

 minal panicles. Petals 5, unequal, the inferior keel-shaped. Stamens 5, 

 filaments united into a sheath. Ovary densely hairy, 3-locular ; ovules 

 pendulous, solitary in each cell. Fruit of 3 samaroid ultimately almost 

 distinct carpels. Seeds 1 in each carpel, not strophiolate. 



1. T. bypoleucum, Miq. Fl. Ned. Ind. Suppl. i. 395. Isopteris penan- 

 giana. Wall. Cat. 7201. 



Penans, Porter ; Malacca, Maingay. 



Branches slender, terete ; branchlets hoary. Leaves 4r-7 by 1^-24 in., elliptic- 

 lanceolate, obtusely acuminate, pale beneath and with very fine adpressed pubesctnce'; 

 petiole tV-s i°- -Panicles much branched, lax, slender. Flowers i in. diam., shortly 

 pedicelled, tomentose. Sepals 5, 2 extirior rather larger. Ovary densely hairy. 

 Samara 2 in. long, membranous, dimidiate-obovate, strongly reticulate, shining; 

 nucleus small. 



5. XANTKOFHirX.I.Via;, Eoxburgh. 



Timber-trees. Leaves large, coriaceous, generally yellow-green. Sepals 

 5, nearly equal. Petals 5 or 4, nearly equal, the inferior keel-shaped, not 

 crested. Stamens^ 8, distmct, 2 hypogynous, 6 attached to the base of the 

 petals. Ovary stipitate, 1-celled ; style curved j ovules various in number 



