strictly accurate name S. lucidus. About the same time 
Thwaites discovered what he assumed to be the Polynesian 
plant on the Ceylon coast and used for it Vogel’s name; 
thirty years later it was found that the Ceylon form is 
particularly abundant on the Andaman coast. In 1886, 
however, Drake del Castillo pointed out that the Ceylon 
Strongylodon is not the same as the Polynesian one. ‘This 
Ceylon plant, which extends from the Andamans and Ceylon 
to Christmas Island, North Australia, New Guinea and New 
Caledonia, is readily distinguished from the Polynesian 
species by its much smaller flowers and its smaller pods. 
It is now found that this littoral species also extends west- 
ward from Ceylon to Madagascar; the material on which 
our plate is based was raised by Messrs. Charlesworth & 
Co., Haywards Heath, from a seed received by them from 
a correspondent in Madagascar, and was communicated 
by them for identification in December, 1912, and was 
recognised as being the Strongylodon ruber of the coasts of 
Ceylon and the Andamans. Since, however, the name 
S. ruber belongs, as a synonym, to the Pacific S. lucidus, 
and since Drake, when pointing out that the two are 
specifically distinct, did not suggest a name for the more 
western plant, it has been necessary to provide one now. 
S. pseudolucidus, Messrs. Charlesworth find, thrives satis- 
factorily and is easy to grow in a warm conservatory. 
Description.—Shrub, climbing; twigs glabrous, faintly 
striate. Leaves 3-foliolate, nearly 5 in. long ; petiole glabrous, 
channelled above, 3 in. long; stipules wide-deltoid, about 
1 lin. long and wide, green, many-veined ; lateral leaflets 
unequal at the base, ovate rounded on the outer, oblong 
more or less cuneate on the inner aspect, 34 in. long, 2 in. 
wide, terminal about 1} in. beyond the lateral leaflets, 
ovate, base wide-cuneate or rounded, 34 in. long, 24 in. 
wide, all acuminate, mucronulate, glabrous, green, mem- 
branous, somewhat polished, 3-nerved from the base with 
4—5 pairs of lateral nerves spreading from the midrib on 
each side, visible on the upper surface and somewhat raised 
on the lower; petiolules about } in. long, with a few white 
hairs; stipels linear-lanceolate, acute, about as long as tlie 
petiolules. Racemes axillary, up to 3 in. long; peduncle 
glabrous, 2 in. long, nodes distinct, each 3-flowered ; bracts 
