202 G. King — Maltriah for a Fhna of Uie ^fala1Jtui Pemumla. [No. 1, 
coriaceous. Flowers amall, pauicled. Calif,v with a very ebort tube and 
basal disc j segments 4, vaivato or Yerj slightly irabricafceil. Fetid 1, 
the sisie aiid shape of the upper calyx-aeo^raeiiti. Stanimu 10, the upper 
free and without anther, the oth<'rs declinate sboitlj monadelphoua, 
hirsute, unequal, the two nearest Ll«e free atfimiijode alwa^'s feitile, 
rather lai-ger than the rest whieh are aUentatoTy short and long and 
may castially liave sterile aiitl\,ers or noue; anthers oblong, versatile, 
dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary 2-5-ovn)ed, ehort-s* allied, pubescent; 
style lonjg, filifornit cii'cinate, stigma small terminal capitate. Pod more 
or less oblique, broadly roanded-oblong, dehiscent, the valves flat, liard 
^and woody, armed or not all over the face with struiglit, conical, ftnn 
pritikles, Seeds osunlly 2, rarely 3-5, with a hard shining testa and 
resting on the cnpsbaped apex of a thick obconio arillate faniculas. 
Species 9j eight Malayan, one Cambodian. 
The earliest publication of anj species of thig genus was in Rnmphtna, Herb, 
Amhoin. II, t. 13. It tlnia forms, by citation, a part of the genna Galedupa Lamk, 
(Eiicyc. Meih, 11, 59 *■ [1786]) j it ia not, however, covered by the description of 
Galtidupa iiidiea given by Lamarok; that description applies only to the Pan jj^iw of 
Rh&eda \M^-t, Malub, VI, t. 3), novsr known m Pon^amia glabra Vont. Aa this 
Irttter niui^fl w validly establiahed— illietdt>*s gonne having been pablished by Adanaun 
MS Ponjiim, before it wns mistaken by Ljimarok for Guledupa — it may be ono day 
fomid rtecGSSfiry to restore Lnmarck's name Oalediipa indica and reatriot it to 
Unmphins' Cojii Oaledrip'i, In any case Qatedupa ia the generic imme first applied 
to, nud thereforo, by tbc modern capons, the one thab should be used for vehat is at 
onco SiniLom M«i., Echittocalyz Benth-, and Gra7idieya Lefevre. Tiio writer, bo it 
understood, ia of those wbo consider onr modern priori ty*knnting to bo Ifretjnently 
unwise ; this consideration will prabably be sliared by sober*miiided stndents who, 
afte^ reading what is said here and whatf hits been already said under Fongamia^ 
miiy lake the trunlle to examine the treatment that adepts ia the art are prepared 
to accord the rfames now undor discusaioa. 
The genus is not a member of the tribe Cynometrem hnt of the AmhersHese^ 
whore it ba« to be placed close to the genera Pahudia Miq. nud Afzelia Linn. Pahxidia 
is in faot ulinoBt exactly intermediate between Sind^ira and Afztdia since it combines 
tho thinner leaves and the ranch imbricated sepals of the latter, with almost the pod 
and e.tactly the seeds of the former. The stamens in both Pahudia and Sind&ra are 
fiimil:irly nnitod in a sheath, but. thore is the unriona difiference that the two nearest 
the fifisure are abortive and represented by bristles on the tnh« in Pa?mdin, whereas 
in Sindora these are fnlly developed and in some of the Bpeoiesare at timea the only 
fertile atameua present- . , 
Pods armed on the face with strong straight prickles 
(unknown in 8. rffiufiiia) ;*l©ave» pnheralona or pabescont 
beneath r — 
Poda snbequally ronnded at base, style and beak at 
opposite ends of 'i^ (ong axia ; rnchis of raceme straight 
with flpirally-set bracts and flowers ; — 
Sliptilos Inrgo foliaceotM ; calyx-lobes with a fe^ spines 
fmtaide in their'apper third ... ... 1. 3, WitUichiana, 
