1897.] G, King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Penitmila. 
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fiesby, cotjledona thin,^ — DisTRiB, Tropical Asia and Africa ; species 
about 17. 
Cnestis rami flora, Griff. NotiiL lY, 432. A small tree or a 
climber, young brauclieSj racbisee of leaves, under surfaces of leaflets 
and iiiflorescencB more or less softly msty-tomentose. Leaves 8 to 15 
in. long; leaflets 19 to 31, sub-sessile, naiTowly oblong, rarely sligiitJy 
obovate, obtuBO or sub-acute ; the base broad, roauded or minutely 
coi-dafce j upper surface aparsely adpressed-pubesceut or glabrescent, tlie 
nerves pubescent ; main uerves 4 or 6 pairs, spreading, faint ; length 
1-25 to 3 in., breadth '4 to 1'5 in. Bacevm much shorter than the 
leaves, in axillary fascicles. Female Jhwers about '35 in. in diam., the 
males gmallor. Sepals narrowly oblong, obtuse, pubescent on both 
surfaces. Petals similar in shape to the sepals but sometimes longer, 
glabrous. Stammis much shorter than the sepals, the filaments glabrous. 
Dug and Ovaries 5, tomentose, styles short. Follicles 1 to 3 from one 
flower, sessile, compressed, falcate, widest about the middle, much 
curved, rugose, rasty-pubescent ; the pericarp very thick, woody, lined 
inside witli a dense layer of sericeous tomentum, 1"5 to 1-75 in, long 
and '8 in. broad. Seed broad, compressed, the testa and arillus thin. 
Kurz Jouru, As. Soc. Beng. Yol, XLY, pt. 2, p, 216 ; For. flora Burma, 
I, 329; Hook. fil. FL Br. Ind. II, 54. C.jlmiiri,ea, GrifE. Notnl. YI, 433. 
0. <plalantlm^ Griff. 1. c. 434 ; Kurz 1. c. OneHis foUosits and 0. igneus^ 
Planch. MSS. in Herb. Kew. Connams foliosus, Jack in Wall, Cut. 8529, 
€, ignaus^ Wall. Cat. 8528, Mourea dasyphyllaf Miq. Fl, Ind. Bat. 
Sappl 528, 
In all the provinces, acomraon plant- — Distrid, Burma, Sumatrat 
Philippine Islands. 
A widely diafcribated plant and therefore prefenthig varioua forms, eoniQ of 
which (fts the synonymy ehowa) ha^'e be on regarded oa apeciea. The form which is 
most diBtinct it that wliiob asstimea the habit of e. atnall tree ; but its fiowors and 
leaVB3 are in no way diCfereint from thoge of the ecandent forms. This was, how' 
ever, k*tpt separato by Kurz mnder the specific name 0, ramifiora Qt'iE, j while, f of 
the Bcaiuient forme, he kept the name C. platuntha^ Griff. 
Order XXXYIIT, LEGUMINOS^. 
(By D, Praik.) 
Herbs, shruhs or trees. Leaves stipulate and usually alternate, 
pinnate or dig^itate or Bimple, often stipellate, soinetiraes with the rachts 
eudiug iu a bristle or tendnl. Infioresoence axillary or loaf -opposed or 
termiual ; usually simply raoeraoso or panioled j bracts and bracteoles 
usually both present. Flowers nsually in-egulai*, hermaphrodite, rarely 
regnlar or polygamous. Sepah 5, corabiued op free, often unequal,, 
sometimes aiTauged in two lips- Pe/aU B, rarely fewer by arrest, very 
