70 G. King — Materials for a Fhra of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. 1, 
intimately attached to lamina of narrowly -lanceolate curved keel. Pod 
oblong 3 in. long, obliquely pointed, diBtiiictlj stalked, 2 seeded. Walp. 
Ann. IV, 559 ; A. Gray, Bot, Amer. Explor. Exped. 446 fc. 48 ; Thwaites 
Enura. 89; Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. II, 191. RhyncJtosia lucida DO. 
Prodr. II, 389. 
Akdauaks; common, Frain! King*s Coll&ciors! Distbib. Ceylon; 
Polynesia. 
21. Ertthrina Linn. 
Trees witb prickly branclies. Flowers large^ coral-red. in denae 
racemes, produced usually before the development of the large constantly 
S-foliolate leaves. Oa:yx oblique, apat-haceoiis, finally slitting down to the 
base or campaoulate- bilabiate. Petals very unequal ; standard always 
mucli exserted and considerably exceeding the keel and wings. Upper 
stanien free down neat-lj to the base or connate with the others half 
■way up the filaments ; anthers aniform. Ovary stalked, many-ovuled ; 
style incurved, beardless; stigma capitate. Pod linear, fertile turgid 
and toruloae throughout, or flat and seedless below. Species 25-30, 
principally tropical, in both the Kew World and the Old, and at the 
Cape, 
Fods tnrgid and se<ed- bearing tluongliotit their length ; 
stipela replaced hy ovafce-glanda as long aa broad ; seeds 
with a very Inrgc? oval luilum ; — 
Gal ji RpnthacRoua, oblique not at all 2-lipped, aplitting 
to the base down the back (§ StGnotropis] ; leafiefca 
nieinbraiums snbrenirorm or triangular, preon on both 
aarfaceB} flowers narrow standard on tiro at a pel .,. 1. E. hidiea. 
Calyx campanulate, somewhat 2-lippedf not splitting to 
the base (I Jlftfi-opffirj/x); leafleto aubcoriacoous ovate- 
oblong, glaocoufl beneath j flowers broad, standard 
emarginato „. ... 2. ^valifoUa. 
Poda tlat, geedless and indehisoent in their lower lialf 
( I Hijpaphorm) ; afcipoia replaced by oblong glanda 
longer than broad; soeds with a amall bilnmj (calyx 
eomowhsii 2-Uppod ; leaves raombranous ovate-aoate, 
green on botb snrfacea; flowers narrow, standard ontiro 
at tip) ... ... ... ... 3. E. Uthosperma. 
SuiiGEN. 1, Stenotropis Hassk. Calyx spathaceous, oblique not at 
all 2-lipped, finally split to the base dowu the back. Pod turgid and 
Bced-bearing throughout. 
1. KurrURiNA ikf>ica Lamk Kncyc. Meth. TI, 391- A tree 60 feet 
high with thin grey bark, armed with minute conical dark-brown 
pi-icklefe. Leaves in. long j petioles in. long unarmed, when 
young dcflsoly brown iah-groy puberuloiiB when fuli-grown glabrescent 
