1897.] G* Kin^ — Makriah for a Flora of tJis Malayan Peninsula. 71 
esppcially in tho upper half ; leaflets 3, membmiious, titiiformly banglit 
green, densely brownish-grey puberaious when yoning when full-grown 
quite glabrous, terminal subreniform lateral pair slightly oblique 
triangular, all subcaspidate at apex and subtriincate at baste, 4-6 in, long*, 
terminal rather broader than, lateral hardly so broad as long- ; petiolulea 
'3-'4 in. long ; stipels represented by ovate glands *] in. diara. that 
remain attached to the rachis on the fall of the lenflets ; stipulca flaccid 
lanceolate "4 in. long aof tly brown-puberulous eai ly caducous, Inftores- 
cmce of dense raeemeB 4-6 in, long on stout spreading woody peduncles 
S-4 in. long ; flowers 1^^ in asila of small triangular pubemlons 
deciduous bracts, pedicels '25 in. long at first brown-paberulous with 2 
subulate pnbernlous deciduous bimcieoles 15 m. long at base of calyx. 
Buds narrowly spindlo-shaped slightly f alcEite puberuloiis. Calyx 1-1 '23 
in. long, soon glabrcscent, month very oblique splitting to the base 
down the back tho tip wifch 5 teetli of which 2 or casually 3 are narrow- 
ly subulate "2 io. long much exceeding the others. CoroUa bright-red 
2-2*5 in, long, standard 1 in. wide, wings and free keel-petals subequal 
about '5-*6 in, long. Ovartj softly grey- pub era bus 2 in. long, stalked* 
Pod 6-12 in. long on a atalk '75-1 in, lon^, black glabrescent distinctly 
torulose 6-8-seeded, usually the lowest and T-3 of the uppermost seeds 
abortive, valves ultimately irregularly shred, hardly distinctly dehiscent ; 
seeds subreuiEoi-m -6 in. long '4 in. wide testa waitn-brown, hilum large 
oval dark-grey with pale margin. DO. Prodr, II, 412; Eoxb, Flor. Ind. 
Ill, 249 ; Wall. Cat. 5903 ; W. & A. Prodr. 260 ; Wight, Ic. t. 58 ; 
Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, 207; Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. II, 388. 
sfaihacca Wail Cat. 5965, fide Baker. E, Oorallodendrum Linn, Sp. PL 
706, in part. ^7. cuneata Grab, in Wall. Cat. 5967, fide Baker. 
Aw DAMANS J on all the coasts common^ Eurz f Frain f .l^icomuB i 
common behind the sea beaches, King^s Gollectors ! Perak ; Scortechini f 
Malacca; fide Baker in Flora of BnttsJi India. Distrib. Sea-shores of 
S.-E. Asia, from the Sunderbans to the Malay Archipelago and 
Polynesia. 
Thia, as a wild speoieSi is purely littoral ; where it oocnrfl inland it has cer- 
tainly been planted. 
Mr. Baker refers here cnneata Grab, which the writer haa not seen j alao 
^. spaDuicea Wall. Cat. 5965. What Wallich'a 5965 B.AC, (wtiich were doubtfully 
identified with 5965 A) mtiy have been, it is diCficalt to say ; they wore Himalajan 
plauta and eu^ not at Calcntta. But the Calcutta example of &9f^5 A ie not named 
M. Hpathucea as in the Libh Cat., bnt is named E. st^icta ; the speoimeii belongs 
moreover to strict a and not to E. indica. 
BmiiEN. 2. MiCROPTERYX Walp. Calyx campanulate, more or less 
distinctly 2-lipped, but not splitting down to the base. Fod tui'gid aud 
seed-bearing throughout. 
