1897*] Ct. King — 3Iat3nah for a Flora of the Maiaynn Pminsula. o5 
Andamans j very common from the Ooco Group to Little Andaman ; 
Ban-en Islami NtCOBARa ; common. Pekano ; Wallick ! Ourtis ! Pakg- 
KOREj Scortechitii! Pahang ; Ridley! Uistkib, Cosmopolitan in tlie 
tropics. 
2. Abrus PDLCHELLtJS Wall. Cat. 5819. A copiously branched 
climber with thin stems and slender glabrous or thinly silky branches. 
Leaves 3-4 in. long ; leaflets equally pinuato in 12-16 opposite pairs, 
membranous glabrous above thinly silky beneath, greeti deciduous, 
ligulate oblong "75-1 "25 in. long, ■25-"35 in. wide. Eacemes matiy- 
flowered, usually lax always long-pedaiicled, equalling or exceeding the 
leaves; rachis little thickened ia fruit. Cahjx '1 in. thinly eilky. 
Corolla *5 in. pink, or pale blue. Fod linear flat incarved 2-2*5 in. long, 
"5 in. wide, valves smooth thin, 8-12 seeded. Thwaitcs, Eunm. Ph 
Zfljl. 91; Bak. in Flor. Brit. lud. II, 175. A. liiivigatus E. Mey. 
Comm. I, 126 ; Harv. Fl. Cap. II, 263. A. melanospermus Ha^sk. Cat. 
Bog. 282 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, 159. A, acutifolim Blume MSS. ex 
Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, 160. 
Andamans; Coco Gi-oup, Prat«/ Port Blair, common. Perak ; 
Kunsil&r 1023 1 Scortechitii 630 ! Disteib. S, Africa and S.-E. Asia. 
2. Crotalabia Linn. 
Herbs or sbrnbs with simple or digitately 3-foliolate rarely 5-7' 
foliolate leaves. Flotmrs often large and showy in terminal or leaf- 
opposed racemes. Oalyx with short tube, and with lanceolate or linear 
teeth free or somewhat connate in two lips. Oorollu equalling or exceed- 
ing the calyx ; standard rounded or ovate short-clawed; wings obovnt© 
or oblong shorter than standard j keel as long as wings, its petals united, 
much incui ved and beaked. Stamem monadelphous in a sheath split 
dorsally, anthers dimorphous, alternately on short filaments versatile and 
on longer basifixed. Ovary sessile or, rarely, stipitate linear uanally 
many-ovuled ; style long, abruptly incurved at the base, l>earded above, 
stigma obliqno smalL Fod sessile or, rarely, supported on a gynophoi^e 
oblong or linear, straight, turgid or inflated, continuous within, 2-go - 
seeded. Species about 250, widespread in tropical and sub-tropical 
regions. 
Leaves Eimple : — ' 
Stipules deourrent as el peraistont wing to tlie atem ... 1. 0, alata, 
Stipules, it proBent, not deourrent ; — 
Foda not longer than the calyx ; — 
FJowiifs ia eloiigatiid mcemeBj, petals blue ; stipules 
raiuute ... ... ... ■■• 2, G. seshilijlom 
Flowera in aliort few-fld. heads, petals pale yellow ; 
8 tip ales 0 ... ... ... 3. (7. chinenais. 
