so G. King — Materials far a Flora cf the Malayan Fenimtda [Ko, 1, 
rarely Rnberect with fltfime 1-2 feet higb. Leaves usually 4-6 in. long-; 
leaflets 3 membranoua Bparsely adpi-essed-pnbescent on both surfaces, 
ovate to lanceolate, acute or shortly aoumitiate, entire or faintly repand 
rarelj alightly lobed, base of termiiiui leatiet cuneatc of lateiul truncate 
or siibaoi-ictilfttely lobed to outer side, 2-4 in. lonf', i-2-5 in, wide; 
petiolefl 12-4 in. long, pubescent with spreading orsliglitly reveraed hairs, 
petiolules '15 in. long, pul>esceut, stipels *15 in, long, glabrous lanceo- 
late, stipules *2-"25 in. long, lanceolate glabreacent. Mtiaemes Bubspicate 
■75-1-5 in, long, at end of stoutish pedunclea 5-8 in. long, pubescent 
with at first decidedly reflexed hairs flowers 2-*3 together from t5-8 
nodes at length *2 in. apart, lower pedicels at length "2 in. long, bracts 
lanceolate -25 in. long fixed above the base. Calyx "15 in. long teeth 
short deltoid, bracteolea narrowly lanceolate "2 in. long. Corolla yellow 
'5-75 in. long, glabrous. Pod 2' 5-3 in, long 2 in. wide, recurved 
glabrous ; seeds 10-12 subtrnacate at ends with prominent hilum half 
as long as seed. 
Vah, typica; stems pubescent. Roxb. Flor. Ind. Ill, 289; Wall. 
Cat. 5611; W. & A, Prodr. 245; Bftk. in Flor. Brit. Ind. IT, 203. 
F. hutits Wall. Cat, 5593 nnt of Retz, P. suhlobuttts Wall. Cat. 5598 
not of Boxb. P. fuhescmis Blurae Cat. Bog. 94 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. 
1, 200. 
PenAK ; Bata Kuran, common, Sc&rtecMni! Curtis 29^^41 Anda- 
MAKS ; common, cultivated and as an escape. Distbib. S.-E, Asia and 
Malaya. 
Var. gracilis ; stems slender, glabrous. 
Peuak ; Larat, Bcortechini 1476 ! Wrny 1756 1 Goping, Kumtler 
mo I Dnrian, Kumtler 1035 ! 2467! Pahang; at Pekan, Ridley 11241 
D I ST RIB. Sumatra ( Forces). 
Bat for the more »lendfir and glabrnaa stems there in no character to separate 
▼AR. gracilis from P. calcaratus which la otherwise a snffloiotitly varifible epecies. 
Ejccopt that it is deacribed as having Bubtomloae pods evon when old, the writer 
woulil hiivu no hesitiitioti in referring P. intern Bl. to VAR, gracilis. As a matter 
of f&ct the pods of all the varieties of cnlearatits ai-e Bubtorolose when yonng, 
and in Eoxburgh'B P, toro»M, wliich is rarorttble to P. calcaratus, they couttmie ao; 
bnt> nut hn^iiig seen apeciiineiis, the writer does not feel justified in formallj 
rednoiog Blame's pl&ut, and would leaye tke matter to be settled bj the bobauista 
of the Dutch IndieB. 
5. Phaskolds M^NGO Linn. Mantisa. I, 101- A spreading annual 
or perennial wifcli slender annual pubescent stems 6-10 feet long, grow- 
ing in open grafisy places {Kunstler}, Leaves 8-10 in. long j loatiotsS. 
blneisli'gi-een membranous ovate-acute, base wide-truncate — of lateral 
leaflets oblique, sparsely pubescent on both surfaces, 3-5 in. long, 2*5-4 
in. wide, petioles 5 in. long sparsely pubescent witii spreading hairs, 
