1897.] G- King — Materials for a Flora of the Malai/an Peninsula. 125 
Wall, Cat, 5643 (exclading Gr and, accofding to W, & A., also excluding 
D), F, indictis Uenth. in Jonra. Liiin. Soc. IV, SuppL 77, in part; 
Bedd. Fl Sylvat. t. 23; Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. 11, 238 in part, not of 
Willd, 
An DAMANS J common. 
TiiiB tree is uaoally treated as a form of the prec&ding speoiefl, and it hae beea 
tho faahion to say that the two are not distiii]^ishable bj ' botanicat ' characters. 
As they grow it wonld be very bard to mistake them, and when bave boeu 
carefuLly examiued it becomes ditficult to realize that^ ovea in the herbarium, they 
flhoQld ever ha^e been confoonded, 
32. Arachis Linn. 
Annnal herba. Leaves abrnptly pinnate^ leafieta few ; stipnles 
elongated adnafce to th© petiole. Calyx long-ttilmlar simtilatinpr a 
pedicel^ 2-lipped ; the npper lip 4-toothed the lower long slender, 
CoroJZfl resupioate. Siatnem (sometimes only 9) nnited in a tube in- 
serted witli the pptals on calyx limb ; staminal tube grooved on vexiUaTy 
side but not split ; anthers dimorphic alternately on short filaments 
versatile and on longer snbbasj fixed. Ovm-y at first shoit-stnllved, at 
base of calyx-tube, the stalk soon elongating ; style filiform, bearded 
above ; stigma minute, Pod long'Stalked ovate-oblong^ obtuse at both 
enda, gibbous, toralose, reticulated, coriaceous, iiideliiscetit, 2^-seeded. 
Seeifs fleshy, oily. Species 7 ; six in Brassitj 1 widely cultivated in the 
tropics, 
Arachis hypog^a Linn. Sp. PI. 741. An annual difiuse herb, stems 
grooved and angled 6-20 in. high, often much branched near base ; 
stems and branches clothed with loiigisli spreading hairs. Leaf-rachis 
pubescent 2-4 in. long ; leaflets exstipellate in 2 opposite pairs, ovate- 
oblong obtase with rounded base, 1-1'5 in. long, '6-1 iu. wide, green and 
glabrous above, pale and spai-sely clothed with spreading hairs beneath i 
stipules narrow lanceolate 1 in. long, *15 in. wide, upper half free, 
Fhioers 2-7, in leaf-axils along the stem. CalyxAips *25 in. long, the 
lower linear the upper "15 in, wide. Corolla 'J? in. long, pale-yellow or 
white ; standard suborbicular, glabrons, keel beaked. Pod carried under* 
ground by the elongating pedicel, whore it ripens; 1-1*25 in. long, '5 
in. across ; 2-3-seeded. DC. Prodr.II, 474; Miq. Flor. Ind, Bat. I, 218, 
Singapore; cultivated, j4«{imou Penang ; cultivated, Gurtu! 
The " Ground -Nat," commonly cultivated in India and Malay aj probably origi- 
nally introduced into the old world from Brazil. 
33. ZORNIA Gmel. 
Annuals, with large gemiuato coriaceous bracts and dotted leaflets 
in 1-2 opposite ptui'S. J'if/icer* in lax racemes. Calyx minute; apper 
