1'897-] G. King — Materiak for a Flora of the Malayan Feititmila. 17 
5. A6EL£A) Solaud. 
Erect or scandent shrubs. Leaves S-rarely 5-foliolate. Panicles or ' 
racemes ascillai-y. Calyx S-parfcicej not accrescent nor embraciDg the fruit, 
imbricate or sabvalvate. Petals lanceolate or ligulate, obtuse, free or 
connate at the middle, Statmns 5 or 10. Disc |-aiiniilar or 0, Fintih 
2-5. FolUdes 1-3, sessile or aliortly stalked, coriaceous, rugose or 
lamellate. Seed erect, exalbuminoua ; testa a^illiforni below the middle. 
— DiSTBtB. 12 species, Africau and Asiatic. 
Main, nerves of taafleta 3 or 3 paira, snb^erect, curving. 
All parts more or less ptibeBoeat, Btameiis 5 ... ... 1, A. vestita. 
All parta, except the mfloroscence, glabrous; atamens 10 „. 2* A, WaUichii. 
Main nQrvea of leafletfl 7 to 10 pah-s, spreading. 
Leaflets S to 5, all parta more or leas pubescent ; atamena 5 .. 3. A. pmnata. 
Leaflets never more than 3, adult leaves qrnte glabroxaa* 
stamena 10 ,.. ... ... ... ... 4. A. Sullettii. 
h AoEtJiA TESTiTA, Hoolc. fil. Fl, Br, Tnd. IT, 46, A rather slender 
woody creeper 20 to 80 feet long; young branches at first rusty-tomeu- 
tose but soon becoming" sab-glabrous or glabrous. Leaflets membranoas^ 
unequal, more or less ovafce or elliptic, with rounded base and caadato- 
acuraieate apex ; the terminal one the larger, sometimes ovate-rotund 
to sub-rhomboidal ; its petiolule '5 or more in length, swollen at the 
apex ; the lateral leaflets inequilateral, the petiolule only '1 or '2 in. long j 
upper surface of all sparsely adpressed-pnbescent, the midrib and 
nerves tomentose ; lower surface pubescent ; main nerves about 3 pairs 
(one pair sub-marginal), ranch cnnred, prominent as are the iutermediato 
nerves and reticulations; length of the lateral leaflets 2'5 to 3 in,, 
breadth 1*25 to 1"75 in., the terminal one larger. Panicle$ extra-arlilary, 
less than 1 in. long, tomentose, with many short branches, Floioers 
under '2 in. long, on slender pedicels. Calyx cleft to the very base ; the 
segments unequal, linear, tomentose, shorter than the glabrous yellowish 
oblanceolate or linear petals. Stamens 5, unequal. Styles 2 to 5, slender, 
with a few white hairs. Follicles solitaiy, bright red, rarely in pairs, 
OToid, boldly tubercalate or lamellate externally and tomentose, abf^ufc 
•6 to "S in. long, usually with a short curved stout apical beak. Seed 
narrowly aub-obovoid, black, '4 in. long, pale and arillitorm near the 
base. Onestis vesHtaf Wall, in Herb. Linn. Soc. Gonnaracea, Walt. Cat. 
8535. SeniiandrtTia horneensis^ Hook, f, in. Trans. Linn. Soc. xixiii, 
171, t, 28. Troostwyckta dngularis^ Miq. PL Ind. Bat. Sappl, 531. 
Singapore; Jack, Eidley. Penang; Porter, Cnrlis. Malacca; 
Griffith, Maingay, Perak ; King's Collector, Scortechiui, Jobore, 
Ridley. — Distrib. Snmatra, Borneo. 
* A rery commoa species in Ferak, The arillM of (he seed ii rerj iacoujpioaoaa 
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