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along sutures elsewhere glabrous, usually rudimentary ; style decliuate. 

 Pod black, 12-15 in. long, 2-25 in. wide, linear-oblong, somewhat curved, 

 compressed, stipe '3 in. long, base cuneate towards upper suture, apex 

 acute tapering towards lower suture which is prolonged into a stoufc 

 beak 1 in. long. 



Malacca ; Griffith, Maingay, Berry I Goodenough ! Perak ; Scorte- 

 chini ! 



The local name of this species is said by Mr. Goodenough to be " Gaj'is Kog- 

 net" or " Talan Kognet ;" Mr. Derry notes it as " Bimga Talan ? " 



How far the characters are valid that separate this species and S. thaipingensia 

 from S. declinata is, in the writer's opinion, a very doubtful matter. The chief 

 diagnostic character, in the case of S. cauliflora, is the presence of 7 stamens and the 

 writer has accordingly placed in Mr. Baker's species only those specimens where 7 or 8 

 stamens occur. These however consist of but two gatlierings, one from Malacca and 

 one from Perak ; for, as it happens, neither Maingay's nor Griffith's specimens that 

 form the original types of the species are represented at Calcutta. The pods des- 

 cribed were collected by Goodenough in Malacca and are placed here because they 

 certainly differ from the pods that are known to belong to the tree described as 

 S. declinata and from those that belong to S. thaipingensis. But young pods of 8. 

 declinata from Java arc rather more like those here supposed to belong to S. cauliflora 

 than like those of the Peninsular S. declinata and a careful field study of the forms 

 by Malayan botanists is urgently called for. The species which Mr. Cantley has 

 named 8. thaipingensis has usually been distributed as 8. cauliflora and it is, as a 

 matter of fact, of the three here described, the one that best accords with Mr. 

 Baker's account of the leaves and of the corymbs of his 8. cauliflora. But 8. thaipin- 

 gensis appears never to have more than 4 stamens and therefore can hardly be 

 Baker's plant. If it can only be shown that the characters to be derived from the 

 stamens and the pods are at all variable it may be possible to reduce both 

 Mr. Baker's and Mr. Cantley's plants to 8. declinata, 



4. Saraca KuNSTLERi Prain. A tree 20-40 feet high, stem 3-5 in^ 

 in diam., branchlets zigzag glabrous. Leaves even-pinnate, rachis 5-10 

 in. long, glabrous; leaflets petiolulate large, 2-3-jugate, diminishing 

 downwards, ovate-acuminate, base cuneate, distal 8-10 in. long, 3*5-4 in. 

 wide, basal if 2 pairs and central if 3 pairs 4-5 in. long, 2 2b-2b in. 

 wide, basal if 3 pairs 35-4 in. long, 2-2'25 in. wide; all chnrtaceous, 

 dark-green above, rather paler beneath, glabrous on both surfaces, 

 main-nerves ascending, 6-9 pairs, more prominent beneath ns is the 

 midrib and the fine secondary reticulation ; petiolules "25 in. long. 

 Flowers in terminal lons^-peduncled paniculate corymbs, the peduncles 

 8-12 in. long, glabrous as are tlie branches 1-2 in. long, and the pedi- 

 cels. Calyx-iwhe and pedicels, especially the latter, very short, together 

 only •4-"5 in. long; bracts not seen; calyx-lobes ovate-oblong '2 in. 

 long, glabrous. Corolla 0. Filaments 7, anthers not seen, PoJ. falcate 

 4-6 in. long, I "5 in. wide., glabrous. Seeds 5-6, transversely ovate, '5 in. 

 long, 7 in. across, •25. in. thick, testa black, smooth, shining, crnstaceous. 



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