1897.] G. King — Maienahfor^ Flora of the Malayan Peninmla. 127 
bristles. Corolla yellow, glabrous, '4 in. lon^. Pod 4-6-3ointed ; faces 
densely papillose. DC. Prodr. II, 32S ; Roxb. Horfc. Beng, 56 ; Flor. 
Ind. Ill, 342; Salisb. Pai-adis. t. 92- Miq. Flor. Ind, Bat. 1, 272; Bak. 
in Flor. Bxnt, Ind. J43, S. ahfssmica Hoclist, in. Schimp. PI. Ab3^sB^n. 
Andamaks ; a common weed tliroughoiifc tJie settlement afc Port 
Blair. NicOBABS: Kamorta, iSTwr^,' Distrib. Africa ; S.-Jil. Asia. 
Not seeD from the other provinces ; probably a recent introduction from India, 
From Java comes a very oloaely allied plarit {3. javanica Miq,] wliiob differs mainly 
in having no briatlea ua tho calyx ; this may be no more than a form of the Indian 
and African S. senaitiva ; all tbe Bpecimens reported are, iiowover, very uniform, 
35. OfiMOCARPtJM Beanv. 
Sbriibs. Leaves with odd-pionate exstipellate leaflets and persistent 
striated at i pules and bracts. Flowers in lax racemes. Calyx-tahQ cam- 
panulate ; 2 upper teetb deltoid 3 lower lanceolate. Standard broad ; 
keel miicb incurved, not at all beaked. Stamens in two bundles o£ 5 
eacb ; antbers uuvforra. Omry linear, few-ovuled ; style filiform, in- 
fl^exed, stigma rainute terminal. Fod of a tew iudeUiscent tnrgid linear 
or oblong joints, the lower seedless, tbe faces rugose, naked orinuricated 
with weak gland-tipped prikles. Species 6, spread all round the world 
in the tropica. 
ORMOCARrOM GLABROM Teysm. & Binnend, Kat. Tijd. Ifed, Ind, 
XxVlI, 56. A sraall tree 12-14 feet high, with smooth angular 
branches ; epidermis desquamating. Leaves 6 in. long^ leaflets 1 in, long, 
■4 in. wide, terminal and 8-9 alternate lateral elliptic obtuse mucronate, 
glabrous , glancescent beneath ; rachis sub trigonous, glabrous, thickened 
at base ; stipules subulate erect. B a ce-mes corymbose, on short peduncles 
'12 in. long; individual flowers on slender pedicels '5 in. long, 2-bracteo- 
late aboYe the middle. Calyx *25 in. long, green, campanulate, unequally 
5-toothed, glabrous externally ; teetb oblong, acute. Qorolla much exsert- 
ed, yellow, purple- veined ; standard soborbicular retuse. Omry long- 
siipitate, glabrous. Fod S-T-jointed, ultimately becoming blackish, 5=6 
in. long; individual joints '75-1 in. long, externally marked with 6-8 
longitudinal more or less parallel ridges. 
Andamaks; very common in thickets near Port Blair; no doubt 
introduced. Disthlb. Malay Archipelago. 
Thia has the general habit of the common Indian 0. sennoidest^ of wliiob it is 
perhaps only a cnltivated form ; its poda, however, are macli longer and are never 
muricated. The original desoriptioo, it flhould be noted, was made from epecimens 
cnltivated at Baitonzorg. 
36, ^SCHTKOMENB Lion. 
Erdot herbs or undersbrabs. Learns with very ntimerous cloae 
