CYNOMETEA TEAVANCOEICA. (Nat. order Leguminosw ; Sub order C^salpinieae 5 Tribe Cynomefcreas.) 



For Gen. Char, see letter-press to PI. cccxv. 



CYNOMETEA TEAVANCOEICA. (Bedd.) A lofty straight tree with a trunk 5-6 feet in girth, unarmed, glabrous in 

 all its parts, young branches terete, leaves abruptly pinnate, petioles about 3-4 lines long somewhat swollen and corrugated, channelled 

 on the upper surface, leaflets sessile always only 1 pair, elliptic acuminated very unequal sided firm membranaceous to subcoriaceous 

 (when young very membranaceous and of a creamy-pink color), 3-4 inches long by 1-1 J inches broad ; racemes axillary shorter than 

 the petiole few flowered densely imbricated before flowering with numerous straw-colored scariose ciliate bracts, pedicels longer than the 

 peduncle, oalycine segments 5, petals 5 narrow equal, stamens 10 alternately shorter, ovary glabrous sessile or subsessile 1-ovuled, 

 legume falcate or subreniform apiculate flat and compressed or more or less irregularly convex but not turgid, more or less rugose 

 or corrugate. 



This is a late discovery ; it is a straight tree of great height and veiy beautiful f ullage, particularly when in young leaf. I have only 

 met with Hon the Tinnevelly and Travancore mountains 2000-3000 feet elevation, but it is most abundant there, particularly in the moist forests 

 about the Parapett and Mosemallay Coffee Estates not far from C'ourtallum. Nothing is as yet known about its timber, &c, itflowersin September 

 and October : the flowers, with the exception of the glabrous ovary, are quite those of C. ramiflora, but the legume is very different, never being turgid 

 and the leaves differ. 



I have another new species of this genus, a tree from the South Canara ghats, but the inflorescence is only in very young state, and it 

 cannot be described as yet ; it has 3 pair of small leaflets, and the very young racemes are more than an inch long and densely imbricated with the 

 large striated bracts, as in one of Griffith's Malacca species. 



Analysis, 



1. A flower bud. 



2. A full flower. 



3,4. The same more advanced shewing the 5 broad sepals, 5 narrow petals, 10 stamens alternately shorter, glabrous ovary, 

 style and stigma. 



5. Aather, front view. 



6. Anther, back view. 



7. Ovary cut vertically shewing the solitary ovule. 

 S, 9. Nearly ripe legumes. 



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