122 ANNALS OF ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
ALSODEIA, Thouars. 
Nat. Ord, Violariec. 
Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate (rarely opposite), distichous; secondary nerves 
often numerous and parallel. S‘ipules rigid. Flowers small, axillary or terminal, solitary, 
fascicled, cymose or racemose, regular ; peduncles with many bracts. Ара 5, subequal, 
rigid. Petals 5, subequal, sessile. Stamens 5, inserted inside or upon an annular disk; 
with long or short often broad dorsal membranous connectival appendages, the cells of 
the anthers sometimes with apical linear processes. Ovary ovoid, style straight, stigma 
terminal, ovules few or many. Cupsule 3-valyed, few-seeded. Seeds glabrous in the 
Indo-Malayan species.—Distrib. Species about 50, chiefly tropical American. 
Sect. I. РвоѕтнезтА ВІ. (genus). Anthers with a subulate appendage from the apex of 
each cell, and а broad (usually dorsal) appendage from the connective. 
PLATE 140B. 
ALSODEIA MEMBRANACEA, King in Journ, Аз. Soc. Bengal, for 1889, рї. 2, p. 402. 
A tree or shrub, the young branches shortly pubescent. or tomentose. Leaves thin 
when dry, obliquely obovate-elliptic, shortly and rather abruptly acuminate, serrate, the 
base narrowed, rather unequal-sided, both surfaces glabrous, except the midrib and 6 
to 8 pairs of pubescent arching nerves, the reticulations wide; length 5 to7 in., breadth 
2-5 to 3 іп, petiole pubescent, “2 in. long; stipules subulate, pubescent, “2 in. long. 
Racemes axillary, condensed, sessile, shorter than the petioles, few-flowered. Sepals 5, 
unequal, the outer 3 rather larger than the inner, all broadly ovate-obtuse, pubescent 
externally. Petals b, smaller than the sepals, ovate-oblong, sub-acute, the margins 
ciliolate with a few adpressed hairs on the back. Stamens 5, glabrous, the filaments 
very short, rising from a fleshy 5-lobed disc. Anthers broadly cordate or sub-reniform, 
with 2 very small subulate processes from the apices of the cells and a large dorsal, 
cordate-acuminate, brown, membranous appendage (from the connective) as wide as the 
anther. Ovary sessile, ovoid, villose; style cylindric, glabrous, stigma cup-shaped. 
Capsule globular, glabrous, the valves in dehiscence blunt: seeds sub-globular with a 
beaked caruncle. | 
Perak, at low elevations. King's Collector, Scortechini. 
A shrub or small tree. This comes near 4. dasycaula, Мід. in externals; but has fewer-nerved 
more glabrous leaves. 
Prate 140B. Alsodeia membranacea, King. 1, branch with flower and fruit; 2, capsule dehiscing ; 3, seeds: 
of natural size; 4, flower bud; 5, flower seen from below; 6, flower seen from above; 7, flower dissected; 8, 
anther seen from behind; 9, anther from the front: enlarged. 
Note—-The specimen here figured has only young leaves: adult leaves are considerably larger. 
PLATE 141. 
ÅLSODEIA KuxsrLERIANA, King in Journ. Аз. Soc. Bengal, for 1889, рі. 2, р. 401. 
A glabrous shrub or small tree; the branchlets striate, sometimes lenticellate. Leaves 
subcoriaceous, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate or caudate-acuminate, sometimes minutely 
