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1897.] G. King — Mafetiah for a Flora of the Malayan Peninmla, 151 
7. Obmosu microspebma Bak. m Flor. Brit. Ind, II, 253. A 
tree 40 to 60 feet liJgli with tliick, deosely brown-velvety IjraTichGS* 
Leaves 8-10 in. long', leaflets 11-13, oblong; or ohovate, acnto or subobtiisej 
base broadly rounded, n'gidly coriaceons, davk-greenijflabrous rather 
glosay abofe, danssoiy persistently sliortly brown-pubescent bohealli as 
are the racliia and petiolales, 2'5-4 in. long 15-2 in, wide, jseeondary 
nevvm 7-9 pairs, slightly raise ^beneath. Uiicemes in ample terminal 
fastigiate paniolea, 8 in. long, 6 in. across, with densely velvety imcliis 
and branches ; pedicels 07-12 in. long, much alio iter tban the calyx, ' 
bracts ovate-lanceolate, densely velvety, perfiistetit, '25 in. long, bracteoles 
at base of pedieela similar but smallfer (12 in. long), two braeteolefi 
close under calyx 'I in. long, oblong. Calyx *25 in. long, externally 
densely velvety, 3 lower teeth as long as calyx 2 upper rather sboiter, 
Corolhi, white, -45 in. long, standard -35 in, wide. Stamens qnite free, 
exsettetl, incurved. Ooanj densely velvety, 3-4-ovuled. iVI *6 in, 
across, irregularly orbicular i! l-seeded, oblong and 2-l'2 in, long if 
2-seeded, lineate between the secda, the valves thinly woody, rigid, 
glnbrescent or persistently velvety. Seed ovoid '3 in. long, '25 in. wide, 
cinnabar-red, without arillus. 
Vak. typica ; pedicels very short, pods when ripe glabrescent. 
0. coaretata Kurz, Journ. As. Soo. Beng. X LIl, 2. 71 hardly of Jackson. 
Malacca ; Oriffiih 1759 ! Maingay 532 1 Deny 1090 J Perak ; near ' 
Ulu Selangor, Kunstler 8767 ! 
VaTi. Eidleyi; pedicels distinct, pods more persistently pubescent, 
SiNOAPORE ; Selifcar, Eidley, 557-1 1 
The speeimena collected by Dr. Griffith hnvo hmn nfinied hy Mr, Bentlmm 
** Ormosia caarctata ? Jacks/' and those collected by Dr. Maingny Iia^'o been (lefi- 
■Rit^ly issued ita Ormmia coetrctat'i ; Mr. Krirsi too, Itfts accepted this detM-mi nation. 
He. Baker however flnda that tlio identiftcation of Griffith's atid Ttloingnj^s 
Mmlacea plunt with 0. coarctaia Jackson (Trans, hinn, Boc. X, t, 25 j a plant from 
Goiaiia; cannot be Buatained. 
Ormoiisi microsperma is nearly related to O. aumatitina {Macrotropis snmulrana 
Miq.) and is also closely rplated to Chinirtlohitim sepfemjugum Miq. a,iid C. decern.' 
jutfiMH Miq. (Flor. Ind. Bat. Sitppl. 302). Mr. Kurz rcdnces tbo geocis Ch^noioltiuin 
to Ormosia {Journ. As- Soc. Beng. XLII, 2. 7.1J; in this he is certainly right. Ho, 
boweTsr, further catiBiders that both planta aro but forma of the Bame apecioa and 
that moreover tbey are both referable to 0. mticrospervia. So far as the Tnatorial 
that waa at Karz' diaposal goes this appears to the writer to bo a premature concln' 
sion, and it seems bettor for tbo present to keep Miquol's plnnta specifically apart. 
Mr. Ridley's pknt from Singapore differs very considorably from the Perak and 
* Malacca, one. The pods are desoribBd as bairy in the field note ; they nro so in the 
Bpec-imens themsolTtsa, but those at Calcntta are not quite ripe. If the pods proTO 
to bo quit© persistently velvety it will probably bo necosaory to treat the plant a« 
a diBtia«;t speeiea to be named 0. Bidleyi. 
