146 C4. Kmg — Mnf maU for a Flora of the Malayan Feninmla, [No. I, 
Perak; Kiflta river, Kunstler 765! Distrib, ladia, Indo-China, 
Malaya. 
42. SoPHOTiA Ltim. 
Trees or ghmliij. Leaves odil-pinnato. Flowers nhovty, yellow or 
wliite or violet-purple, raceraed or panioled. Calyx oblique eabgibbona 
broadly campanulate ; teetb deltoid yery short. OoroUa mucb exserted, 
stnndaid broad; petals eqnfil in lenp;tli alt with long claws; keel obtnse. 
Stanieiis free or only obscurely conrmtG at the very base ; antbera uni- 
form vereatile. Ovanj stalked, mauy-ovuled ; atyle incurv(;d, stitjiua 
capitate. Pod ruoiiiliform, Bubliffuose or taembrnnoug usiially iiideliia- 
ceiit, the joints turgid and usually terete. Species about 25 ; wide- 
spread in tTOpical and subtropical regions, a few temperate or alpine. 
The above defiiiilioTi appliea to the noclion Eus&phora, to which the only Malayan 
species beloug^a, 
SoPHOiiA TOMENTOSA Linii. Sp. PI. 373. An erergi-een littoral sbrub 
or small tree Bometimes feacliing 20 feet in height, with all parts at first 
softly and shortly tomentose. Leaves 6-12 in. long, leaflets 10-17 ter- 
minal and in subopposito pairs or often along proximnl half of raehia 
distinctly alternate, elliptic to oval-obtuse 1-1 '5 in. long, *5-'75 in. 
wide, thinly coriaceous^ with age glabrescent above, persistently softly 
pubescent beneath, petiolules very short densely pubescent ns is the 
raehia. Floicets in terminal racemes 6 in. long on softly toinentose 
pedicels, '3 in. long, with deciduous subulate basal bracteuies, '15 in, 
long. Calyx obliquely truncate, '35 in, long, ohsolofcely toothedj exter- 
nally Foftly pubescent. Corolla yellow, glabrous, '65 in. long} standard 
orbicular veined. Slamens almost free to the base, the vexillary fila- 
ment qnite free, the filaments of the other 9 very shoi'tly connate round 
base of pubescent lO-32-ovulod ovary, Fod motiiliform 6-8-seeded, 
4-6 in. long, the oblong hoary joints sepaimted by stipes us long as 
themselves, DC. Prodr, II, 05 ; Wall. Oat. 6333 ; Roxb. Flor. lud. II, 
316 ; W. A A. Prodr, 179 j Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, 124; Bak. in Flor. 
Brit. Ind. H, 249. glabra Haask. Cat. Hort. Bog. 285 ; Miq. Flor, 
Ind. Bat. I, U5 ijide Baker). 
Kedah ; Langkawi, Gurtul DiNomas ; on coast, Scorteckini I Curtis f 
Perak ; Larut, Ridley ! Pulo Condor ; on the coast, Finlayson ! Anda* 
MANS ; very commou on all the coasts. UismiB. On most tropical sea- 
coasts. 
43. Obmosia Jacks. 
Erect trees or, one species, climbing. Leaves odd-pinnate. Flmvers 
usually in dense terminal racemes. Calyx campauulate, deeply d-clefl^ 
