1897.] G, King — Matenah for a Mora of the Mulayan Fetitnsuta. 2C1 
sometimes 3-, ^rarely l-]ilgate, (wljen leafletB .S-jusrate oti 1he distal 
pinn®, leaves occasionally with a second pair of pinniB with short 
eg^Kndular rachis under "5 in. long, bearing 1 pair of small leafiets) } 
leaflets ovate to elHptic-oblong or oblonfr-lariceolate, apei ratJier abrupt- 
ly acnminate, base obliquely ciineate, glossy dork-gi-een fibove, dull pnlor 
beneath, glabrons on botli surfaces, thinly cbartaceons, decreasing down- 
wards, the distal pairs 4 in. lont^, 1-5 in wide, the lowest 1'5 in, long, 
•7 in. wide. Floivers in small heads '6^*7 in. acrnsa, yellowish ; pedun- 
cles slender, faintly pnber\ilous, '75-1 in. long^ solitfirj or in fasoicles of 
2-3 in corymbs on nodes in the upper fourth, or subumbellate at the 
tips, of numeraus branchlots 1*5-6 in. long, tbemRelvcs in corymbose 
panicles 8-10 in. long and nearly as wide, at the ends of leafy branches ; 
pedicels 'OS- l in* long. Calyx "07 in. long, carapanulate, faintly toothed, 
externally paberwlous. Corolla "2 in. long, teeth lanceolate, niiifox'mly 
sparsrly silky externally. Filaments connate at base in a white tube , 
slightly shorter tlian that of corolhi, free portion of filaments '35 in. 
long, pale-yeHow. Pod at length dehiscent, 6-10 in. long, 1-1-25 in. 
wide, thin, flexible, pflle-brown, dull, reticulated opposite tlie seeds, 
smooth glossy elsevvbere. Seeds 6-8, ochicnlar, 'S in. in diam , much 
compressed, testa smooth, pale-brown. Death. PL Jungli. 268; Miq. 
Flor. Ind. Bat. I, 18; Bak. in flor. Brit. Lid. IT, 299. Mimojtq^ lucida 
Roxb, Hort. Beng. 40; Flor. Ind, TI, 544. huja lucida Wall. Cat 5267 
mostly, 
Singapore : fide Baker. Distrib. Eastern Himalfiya and Iiulo- 
China; also Java (/da Miquel). 
Like A. odoraiittxima tlijH spodea is incltidetl on the antlioHtj of Mr. Bnker, who 
rocortia ifc from thci Miilnyan Peninsula. Dr. Miqnel reports it a\m from Java, bat 
uo Criti&li or Dutcli botanist has ever aenfc a Malayan epeoimea to Caloutta. 
70- PiTOECOLOBiuii Mart. 
Erect trees. Leaves abruptly 2-pjTinate. Fkuc&rs in gioltose heads, 
rai-ely in small loose spikes or anbumbellate corymbs, oRnally herma- 
phrodite and .pcntatnerous. Calyx campanulate or funnel-slmped, shortly 
toothed. Oondla funnel-shaped, the petals united below fiom one-half 
to two-thirds th.eir length, Stainens monadelphoas, much exsei^ed j 
anthers without glands- Ovary sessile or slipitate, raany-ovuled ; 
style filiform, stigma minute capitate. Pod a trap- shaped, circinate or 
iai"ely falcate or nearly straight, usually dehiscent tbroughoufc the 
lower suture and mach twisted in a late stage, sutures not or slightly 
thickened. 
Species about 100 j cosmopolitan in the Tropics, aboat 80*/^ Ameri- 
can, otdy 1-2 African. 
