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This is extremely closely related to S. palemhanica but is readily distinguislied 

 by its glabrous peduncles and pedicels, and its glabrous ovary. The solitaiy Perak 

 gathering differs from tlie original Sumatrana specimens (n. 863 Hort. Bogor) in 

 having much smaller flowers, but is not otherwise distinguishable. It may, on the 

 whole, be better, however, to treat the Peninsular plant as a distinct variety, var. 

 parviflora ; unless it should be found that the two differ markedly in fruit they can 

 hardly be looked upon as distinct species : as yet, the fruit is unknown in either plant. 



8. Saraca PALEMBANiCA Miq. ex 13ak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. II, 272. 

 A tree with spreading branches, 30-40 feet high, stem 8-10 in. in diam. 

 Leaves with rachis 8 in. long ; leaflets rigidly subcoriaceons 4-7 paired, 

 oblong, apex obtuse shortly abruptly acuminate, base slightly unequally 

 rounded, 5-14 in. long, 2"5-4*5 in. wide, secondary nerves about 12 pairs, 

 curving forward, prominent beneath, dark-green above, paler beneath, 

 rather dull ; petiolules "15 in. long, glabrous as is the racbis, stipels 

 caducous ; stipules completely united in a scarious bud-sheath *5 in. 

 long. Flowers in densely fascicled corymbs on old nodes, 2 in. long 

 nearly as much across ; peduncles and pedicels pubescent, slender, the 

 latter '5 in. long below the two ovate-oblong spreading persistent 

 bracteoles -2 in. long ; bracts ovate-subacate "2 in. long. Calyx orange- 

 yellow, tube slender cylindric '35 in. long, exceeding the limb of 4 oblong 

 sepals '25 in. long. Petals 0. Stamens 4, at times only 3, two and a 

 half times as long as sepals, filaments slender and inserted in the retiring 

 angles of a crenately lobed fleshy ring, deep- purple as are the shortly 

 oblong anthers. Ovary stalked, densely hairy, in most flowers rudimen- 

 tary and then subglabrous. Pod not seen. Jonesia (Saraca) palem- 

 hanica Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. Suppl, 291. 



Penang ; Kulang Ulu, Curtis 647 ! Pangkore ; Bindings river, 

 Curtis 1386! Malacca; Maingay ! Bindings Territory; "in wet low 

 lands," Bryant ! Perak ; Larut, " in low wet ground," Kunstler 6372! 

 Scortechini 138 1 Distrib. Sumatra. 



This is very near S. macroptera Miq. but differs in having rather smaller flowers, 

 with pubescent peduncles and pedicels, and more densely clustered corymbs. 

 Miquel describes the ovary as glabrous, but it is densely pubescent except in the 

 case of the abortive ovaries which occur, however, in the vast majority of the 

 flowers. Though its leaves very much resemble those of 8. macroptera, it is less 

 closely allied to that species than it is to S. triandra, a species which is much more 

 common in the Malay Peninsula than either of the others. 



9. Saraca triandra Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. II, 272. A slender 

 tree 15-30 feet high, stem 4-8 in. in diam. Leaves with racbis 1-5-3 in. 

 long ; leaflets thinly subcoriaceous, 2-3-, very rarely 4-paired, oblanceo- 

 late-oblong, obtuse with or without an abrupt acumen, or subacute, 

 tapering from beyond the middle to a cuceate base, lower pair very 

 rarely rounded at base, and narrowed towards apex ; 5-12 in. long, 2-6 

 in. wide, secondary nerves about 12 pairs, the lowest pair distinctly 



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