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46 . CYNOMETRA, Linn. 
Trees of fairly large size. Leaves of few pinnate coriaceous 
leaflets. Flowers copious, very small in axillary corymbs or 
racemes. Calyx-tube short, lobes 4 to 5 imbricate. Petals 5, 
oblanceolate not exsert. Stamens 10 (in C. polyandra indefinite); 
filaments free, exsert filiform; anthers small oblong. Ovary 
2-ovuled; style filiform. Pod turgid fleshy, usually rugose brown 
oblong oblique. Seeds 1. Species 20, tropics generally. 
C. Cauliflora Linn. Sp. PI. 382 ; Prain , l.c. 197. The Nam-Nam ; 
Puki anjing, is occasionally cultivated in the Malay Peninsula. 
It has a short trunk and pink flowers with brown reniform acid 
fruits about 2 to 3 in. long, borne on the trunk. 
Stamens 10. 
Cymes umbelliform; bracts small; leaves 1 to 2 
jugate .. . . (1) C. ramiflora 
Racemes sub-spicate, dense; bracts large; leaves 
3 jugate. (2) C. insequalifolia 
Stamens 40 to 60. 
Flowers in axillary corymbs . . . . (3) C. polyandra 
(1) C. ramiflora Linn. Sp. PI. 382; Prain, l.c. 197. 
A medium tree about 20 to 30 ft. tall or more, branched low 
down. Leaves 1*2 to 2 in. long, leaflets 2 pairs, obliquely obovate 
oblong to sub-falcate oblong, coriaceous, dark green, glabrous, 1 to 5 
in. long, -25 to 2*5 in. wide, base oblique, cuneate, tip blunt. Corymbs 
sub-umbellate, above the axils of fallen leaves, 3 to 6 in. long. 
Bracts ovate, -15 to '2 in. across. Calyx-tube very short; sepals 5, 
ovate lanceolate, white, *12 in. long. Petals white, linear-lanceo¬ 
late *15 in. long, narrower. Stamens 10, '25 in. long. Ovary 
pubescent. Pod rugose oblong or ovoid, tip thickened, '5 in. long, 
■4 in. broad. Hab. Tidal rivers and mangroves. Common. Singa¬ 
pore, Kranji; Jurong. Johor, Scudai River (Hullett). Bindings, 
Bruas. Perak, Matang (Wray). Distrib. Ceylon, Malay isles. 
var. mimosoides Baker, in Hook. fil. F.B.I. ii. 269; Prain, l.c. 
198. 
Leaflets smaller, terminal pair obtuse emarginate, hardly larger 
than the basal pair. Rare; open swampy country. Setul. Dis¬ 
trib. India, Burma, Ceylon. 
(2) C. inaequalifolia Gray, Bot. U.S. Expl. Exped. 473; Baker, 
in Hook. fil. F.B.I. ii. 267; Prain, l.c. 199. 
A big tree 80 ft. or more tall with very stout stem. Leaf shoots 
covered with large white, imbricating bracts. Leaves 2 to 3 in. 
long; leaflets 2 to 3 pairs, coriaceous elliptic-oblong, base oblique 
cuneate, sub-acuminate dark green glabrous sessile 2 to 3 in. long, 
1 to 1-25 in. wide. Racemes axillary congested, 1 to 1*5 in. long, 
1 in. wide. Bracts close imbricating, hard, ‘25 in. across. Sepals 5, 
narrow obovate imbricate; tube short, white, *2 in. long. Petals 
white, *2 in. long. Stamens 10, *4 in. long, slender. Ovary pubes- 
