84 G-. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula, [No. 1, 
ToNGKAH ; Curiii GoUector 2861 ! Distrir. Lower Bengal, com- 
luonly cultivated ; Lower Burma ; Java. 
Tliia species has, like the last, been Rinch misunderstood. It is the familiar 
Biinchi plant of Bengal, where it ia widely cultivated ; to a slight extent on acconnt 
of ita fibre wkicii, being more reatstent to water tbati other kinds in employed in 
making fishing neta and lines ; to a greater exte.nt for its long lithe stems 
that are used as the wattles o£ which are conatracted the walls of the houaes in 
which Pijjer- Betle is grown in Bengal. Probably this ia an iiitrodacod plant m 
Malay conntn'ea. 
■3. Seshania orandiplora Pel's. Synopa. II, 316. A soft- wooded 
tree 20-30 feet high and 8-10 in. in diani. at baae, with vii-gate terete 
branches. Leaves 6-12 in. lonff, leaflets 16-30 paira, linear-oblong 
glftbrous, pale-green, liacemes short (1 in. hing), 2-4-fld<, bat distinctly 
peduncled ; flowers white or pink, Cahjx & in. deep, glabrous, fihallowly 
2-Iobed. Corolla 3-3'5 in. long. Fods up to 20 in. long, falcate or 
straight, firm, sutures thick straight, valves slightly depressed between 
the seeds. Bak, in Flor. Brit. Ind, II, 115. Af/ati grandtflora Desv, 
Jonrn. Hot. I, 120, t. 4 ; Jliq. Flor. Ind. Bafc. I, 289. 
Perak; Thaipeng, Scorlechini 5251 Singapore; Ktmstler 1147! 
Hidhit 819 1 DiSTKio. Mascarene Islands to N. Australia, usually 
planted. 
The Agati tree, whioh is vory donbtfnlly native either in India or Malaya, is 
often grown as a support for Pepper- vi Ilea in Southern India,, la Northern Inditt^ 
it ia chiefly plaated for the Bake of ita a^iowy flowers. 
25. Tephrosia Pers. 
Herbs or andershrubs vrith compound odd-pinnate or, rarely, simple 
leaves ; the leaflets opposite^ subcoriaeeoua. Flowers in terminal and 
leaf-opposed racemes. Calyx campanulate with distinct subeiqual teeth. 
CoroUu much exserted, petals clawed, standard snborbicular ; keel 
incurved, not beaked. Stamens diadelphous, anthers uniform, obtuse. 
Ooarij seaaile, linear, many-ovuled ; style much incurved, flattened or 
filiform, silky or glabi-ons ; stigma capitate often penicillate. Pod 
linear fiattened, many -seeded, 2-valvcdj contmuons or obscurely septate 
between the seeds. Species about 100, in all tropical regions. 
The above definition ftppliea only to the species of the Malay Peninsula. 
An nnderahrab ; calyx. teeth short, deltoid ... 1. T. Candida. 
Herbs ; calyx -twth narrow cnspidate as long as the tube :— 
Poda glttbrescent ... ... 2, T. purpurea. 
Pods clothed with persistent brownish silky haira ... 3. T. Eookcri&na. 
1. Tephrosia Candida DC. Prodr. II, 249. A low shrub, 4-6 feet 
high J with slender woody grooved branches clothed with brown or grey 
