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Pcrak ; in denso Bamboo Forests. Distrib. Java, Borneo, Teuas- 
8orira. 
3. Seccridaca, Linn. 
Shrubs, almost always scandont. Flowers in terminal or axillary, 
usually compound, racomes. Sepals deciduous, 2 inner (wings) larger 
and petaloid. Petals 3, lateral nearly or qnito distinct from the galeate 
crested keel, superior potals 0. Stameits 8, filaments united i anthers 
2- celled, dehiscing by oblique pores. Ovary l-celled, 1-ovuled. Fruit 
a l-celled samara, 1 -seeded ; wing broad, coriaceous. Seeds exalbuminous, 
estrophiolate. Distrib. Species about 25 ; most numerous in tropical 
America, rarer in tropical Africa and Asia. 
Securidaca bracteata, Bonn, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 208. A 
powerful climber; branches terete, puberulous. Leaves elliptic, shortly 
and bluntly acumiuate, the margins revoluto when dry, base rounded 
or slightly narrowed ; upper surface shining, lower densely covered 
with minute pale pubescence ; nerves 5-6 pairs. Flowers in racemes or 
panicles ; bracts ovate, acuminate, pubescent, deciduous. Older sepals 
nearly equal, small, ovate, very hairy, ciliate ; wings large, rotund, 
pubescent externally. Lateral petals truncate; keel with a recurved, 
plaited crest. Ovary orbicular ; style curved. Stigma large. Samara 
3- 3£ in., the nucleus smooth, sub-globular, "4 in. in diam. ; the wing 
obliquely oblanceolate, membranous, with prominent transverse curving 
arched nerves ; the upper edge thickened entire, the lower crose. 
Malacca, Maingay ; Tcrak, Wray. 
Not having seen any specimen with perfect flowers, I have copied 
the description of the sepals and petals from Bonnet. 
4. TRiaoNiASTRUM, Miquel. 
A shrub or small tree. Leaves hoary beneath. Flowers in slender 
terminal panicles. Sepals 5, nearly equal, the two outer larger. Petals 
5, imbricate, unequal, the two lower partially united to form a keel ; the 
odd petal the largest, saccate at the base atid with a large hairy gland 
in its concavity. Stamens 5 or 0, the filaments united into a group be- 
tween the ovary and the keel. Ovary densely hairy, 3-locular ; ovules 
pendulous, solitary in each cell. Fruit of 3 samaroid, ultimately almost 
distinct, carpels. Seeds 1 in each carpel, not strophiolate. 
Trjuoniastrum n ypolecjcum, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. J, 395. A 
slender tree, 30 to 00 feet high ; young branches hoary-pubescent; the 
older with dark brown, Icnticcllato bark. Leaves elliptic-lanceolate, shortly 
find bluntly acuminate, narrowed to the base; both surfaces shining -, 
the uppor glabrous; the lower palcj very minutely scurfy-puhoscont, 
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