122 PLANTS OF PRINCE OF WALES ISLAND. 



Stem : arboreous, erect, tall, covered with a thick, rough 

 bark. Branches : crowded towards the top of the stem, flexu- 

 ous. Leaves : near the ends of the branches, scatterd, bipin- 

 nate; many paired (18-22) abrupt ; pinnae many paired (22-36) 

 abrupt ; leaflets oblong, obliquely truncated, smooth, very much 

 crowded, sessile. Petioles common, round, above, slightly ; 

 sprinkled with little rough points ; much thicker at the base ; 

 above the base marked with an ovate, depressed smooth 

 gland: partial filiform, thicker at the base, downy. Stipules 

 none. Peduncles terminal, solitary, round, sprinkled with ob- 

 long, rough spots, longer than the leaves, nodding. Flowers 

 aggregate, very much crowded, sessile, very small, of a whitish 

 yellow, on a clubbed receptacle ; forming an oval head about 

 as large as an hen's egg. Bract an oblong, spathulate scale, 

 beneath each floret, the length of the calyx, receiving the lower 

 side of its tube. Hermaphrodite flowers the uppermost in the 

 head (i. e. farthest from the peduncle, though as the flowers 

 droop, this part in situ, becomes the lowest). Cal : Perianth 

 tubular ; mouth five cleft ; segments, obtuse, the two under- 

 most larger. Cor : Petals five, lanceolate, erect, coalescing 

 with each other and with the cylinder of stamina ; length of 

 the Calyx. Stam : Filaments ten, longer than the Corolla, 

 united into a cylinder for half their length; Anthers oblong, 

 incumbent. Pist : Germ oblong, pedicelled ; Style awl-shape, 

 Stigma sharp. Legume oblong, pointed, compressed, sub- 

 foliaceous interrupted with isthmi. Seeds: many, oval, 

 compressed, surrounded with a fleshy pulp. Male flowers 

 below the hermaphrodite, shorter, forming a neck between 

 the head of hermaphrodite flowers and a smaller one 

 below yellow. 



Calyx and Corolla as in the hermaphrodites. Stamens 

 filaments as in the hermaphrodites ; only their sheath is 

 wrinkled within. Anthers as in the hermaphrodite. Neuter 

 flowers below the male, forming a smaller head, whites. 

 Calyx and Corolla as in the hermaphrodites. Stam : Filament 

 as in the hermaphrodites, but much longer and flexuous. 

 Anthers none. Pist : A very short cylindrical rudiment, in 

 the bottom of the tube. 



Jour. Straits Branch 



