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Maferials for a Flora of the Muhiyaji Tcmnsida. 



52. Saraca Linn. 

 Erecfc trees. Leaves abruptly pinnate, leaflets glabrous rigid sub- 

 coriaceous or coriaceous, in bud minutely stipellate, stipels very rarely 

 persistent, stipules large intrapetiolar scarious completely united, rarely 

 foliaceous partially free. Flowers in dense sessile paniculate rarely 

 simple corymbs on old nodes, or rarely axil I arj', with subpetaloid coloured 

 persistent or rarely decidoiis bracts and brac<eoles. Calyx petaloid, 

 limb 4-cleft lobes imbricate subequal, tube cylindric crowned by a lobed 

 disc. Corolla 0. Stamens 2-8, exserted, wi;li long filiform filaments and 

 oblong versatile anthers opening longitudinally. Ovary manj-ovnled, 

 with a stalk attached to and produced beyond the disc, in most of the 

 flowers rudimenlary; style long filiform, stigma minute suboblique 

 capitate. Pod flat dehiscent, rigidly coriaceous. Seeds exalbuminous. 

 Species 16 or more ; all South-E:istern Asiatic. 



Loaves quite glabrous; stipules small at length scarious 

 quite united aloTig their inner margins; stipels vanishing; 

 flowers yellow, at length becomiug reddish, in paniculate 

 corymbs : — 



Bracts and bracteoles very deciduous, large where known ; 

 (pedicels glabrous) : — 



Leaflets 7-jngate, petiolules "4 in. long ; calyx-lobes 

 shorter than tube, bracts and bracteoles very large : — 

 Corymbs subsessile, dense, subsimple ; pods over 3 in. 

 broad; (calj'x-lobes more than half as long as tube; 

 stamens 4) 



Corymbs in lax long-peduncled panicles ; pods 2 in. 

 broad : — 



Calyx-lobes one-third as long as tube; stamens 4; 

 pod beakless 



Calyx-lobes half as long as tube ; stamens 7—8 ; pod 

 beaked 

 Leaflets 2'-3-jagate, petiolules "25 in. long; calyx-lobes 

 as long as tube ; (corymbs in lax long-peduncled pani- 

 cles; pods 15 in. broad; bracts and bracteoles un- 

 known ; stamens apparently 7) 

 Bracts and bracteoles persistent, small ; (petiolules not 

 exceeding -2 in.) : — 



Stamens 7-8 ; (pedicels glabrous) : — 



Leaflets 4-6-jiigate, coriaceous; bracteoles amplexi- 

 caul, ascending 



Leaflets 1-2-jngate, subcoriaceous ; bracteoles not 

 araplexicaul, spreading 

 Stamens 3-4 : — 



Pedicels glabrous ; ovary glabrous (leaflets 4-7- 

 jagate) 



Pedicels puberuTous ; ovary pubescent : — 

 Leaflets 4-7-jugate, corymbs short 

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S. thaipingensis. 



2. S. declii-ata. 



8. cauUflora. 



4. S. Kunstleri. 



S. indiea. 



6. S. hijuga. 



S. macroptera. 

 S. palemhanica. 



