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?]■ RAK ; Gunong Batu Pateli, 1500-2000 feet, Kunsiler 8048 ! 

 A very distinct species, npparently nearest 8. Lohhiana Bak. ; tinfortunately 

 good flowers are not yet available for description. 



5. Saeaca INDICA Linn. Maut. I, 98. A low wide-spreading iree 

 20-30 feet high, stem 2 feet tliick, bvancLies glabrous. Leaves with 

 rachis 7-8 in. long, racliis glabrous, leaflets sabcoriaceoiis 5, less often 

 6 rarely 4 pairs, oblong-lanceolate apex obtuse or acute, base rounded 

 or cuneate slightlj oblique, 6-9 in. long, 2-3 in. wide, margins faintly 

 undulate, dark-green shining above, dull and paler beneath, both sides 

 quite glabrous; petiolules short "2 in. long very stout, stipels decidu- 

 ous ; stipules suiall at first coriaceous, green, at length scarious, brown, 

 the two united comiDletely from base to apex into a convolute sheath for 

 the subsequent bud, when laid open ovate-oblong "4 in. long, '2o in. 

 wide, parallel-nerved and minutely laciniate at the wide tip. Floicers in 

 dense corymbs 3-4 in. in diam., axillary; peduncles and pedicels red- 

 dish, glabrous, rather stout, basal bracts ovate-subacute with ciliolate 

 margins, bracteoles 2 subopposed persistent ascending oblong-spathulate 

 subacute amplexicaul, '15 in. long, pedicels below bracteoles 'S-'S in. 

 long. Calyx bright-orange becoming at length red, tube 'b-'6 in. long, 

 cylindric, about twice as long as limb of 4 obovate-oblong sepals. Petals 

 0. Stamens 7 or 8 with 2 rudimentary filaments, all filaments slightly 

 widened and slightly connate at base, reddish, anthers nearly twice as 

 long as broad, purple; filaments thrice as long as sepals. Orar?/ stalked, 

 puberulous along the sutures elsewhere glabrous, 8-]2-ovuled, in most, 

 flowers rudimentary and then quite glabrous ; style filiform declinate 

 nearly as, long as filaments. Pod black, 4-10 in. long, 1*7 in. wide, 

 linear- oblong, compressed, valves strongly wide-reticulate ; stipe '25 in. 

 long. Seeds 4-8, oblong, compressed, I'S in. long. Miq. Flor. Ind. 

 Bat. I, 83; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 57; Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. 11, 271. 

 S. arborescens Burm. Fl. Ind. 85, t. 25, f. 2. Joiiesia Asoca Roxb. As. 

 Res. IV, 355 ; Fl. Ind. II, 218 ; DC. Prodr. 11, 487 ; Wall. Cat. 5822 ; 

 W. & A. Prodr. 284 ; Wight Ic. t. 206 ; Bot. Mag. t. 3018. J. pinnata 

 Willd. Sp. PI. II, 287. 



Malacca ; fide Baker in Flora of Brit. India. Probably planted ; 

 the species has never been sent to Calcutta by any ^Malayan botanist. 



6. Saraca bijuga Prain. A tree with spreading branches 20-80 

 feet high, stem 6 in. to 2 feet thick ; branches glabrous. Leaves with 

 rachis 1 in. long, leaflets thinly subcoriaceous 2-, or not infrequently 

 1-jugate, oblong-lanceolate, apex graduallj' narrowed in the upper third 

 to a sharp point, bases of terminal pair very oblique, rounded on lower 

 cuneate on u))per margin, of lower pair rounded or subcoi'date on both 

 sides, 4-10 in. long, 1-275 in. wide, margins faintly undulate, dark-green 



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