126 ANNALS OF ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
PLATE 144, 
ALSODEIA SCORTECHINI, King in Journ. Аз. Soc. Bengal, for 1889, pt. 2, р. 405. 
A small glabrous tree, the branchlets usually pale brown. Zeaves membranous, shortly 
petiolate, obliquely elliptic-lanceolate or oblanceolate, shortly and bluntly acuminate, irre- 
gularly serrulate; main nerves about 12 or 13 pairs, rather bold; secondary nerves trans- 
verse, slightly prominent below; length 7 to 9 in., breadth 2 to 3 in., petiole ‘2 in. 
Racemes sessile, about “5 in. long, several together, axillary or extra-axillary, about 3-to 
5-flowered, with ovate bracteoles. Flowers pedicellate. Sepals puberulous, broadly ovate, 
much shorter than the petals. Petals 5, lanceolate, with long bluntly acuminate exserted 
apices. Svamens glabrous, shorter than the petals; the filaments twice as Jong as the 
anthers, slender, rising from a deep, 5-lobed, dise; the anthers short, ovate, with a single 
very small terminal appendage; ovary sessile, globose, glabrous, warted; style long, 
cylindric, glabrous or puberulous. Ripe capsule globular, pointed, rather more than “5 in. 
long, glabrous, lenticellate ; valves compressed, pointed. Seeds 2 in each valve, sub-rotund, 
whitish, carunculate. 
Perak; King’s Collector, Scortechini, Wray; at low elevations. 
A large shrub or tree 20 to 25 feet high. Externally this much resembles A. Maingayi, but the 
flowers, and especially the anthers, differ much. 
Prate 141. A/sodeia Scortechini, King. 1, flowering branch; 2, ripe fruits: of natural size; 3, seed; 4, flower 
dissected; 5, the stamens and their disc removed from the same; 6, stamens, back and front view: enlarged. 
PLATE 145. 
ALsoDEIA CONDENSA, King in Journ. Ав. Soc. Bengal, for 1889, рі. 2, p. 405. 
A glabrous tree; the older branchlets pale, lenticellate. Zeaves membranous, shortly 
petiolate, inequilateral, elliptic to elliptic-oblong, sub-acute, sub-entire, gradually narrowed 
below the middle to the acute slightly unequal base; shining above, dull beneath and 
darker except the midrib and 13 to 15 pairs of prominent, sub-erect, pale main 
nerves; secondary nerves transverse; length 8 to 14 in., breadth 3 to 4°5 in., petiole “95 
to "35 in.; stipules subulate, “95 to “5 in. Panicles axillary, crowded, much branched, 
spreading, 1 to 2'5 in. long (longer in fruit), puberulous or glabrescent; the bracteoles 
numerous, ovate, acute. Sepals unequal; the outer 2 or 3 larger, rotund; the inner 2 or 
3 ovate, pubescent on the back. Petals ovate, a little longer than sepals, rhomboid, 
with pale edges, villous on the back externally and along the midrib internally. Stamens 
glabrous, {һе filaments rather short, from a fleshy disc; anther cordate, with a single 
terminal minute white ovate membranous appendage from the connective. Ovary sessile, 
globose, glabrous. Style cylindric, stigma cup-shaped. Capsule ovoid, pointed, glabrous, 
not lenticellate: valves compressed, pointed; seeds sub-globular, carunculate. 
Perak, Scortechini, King’s Collector; at low elevations. 
A tree 30 to 40 feet high, approaching A. Scortechini in externals, but with different flowers. 
Ртате 146. Alsodeia condensa, King. 1, flowering branch; 2, panicles with ripe fruit: of natural size; 3, seed ; 
4, flower, dissected; 6, anthers with their tube; 6, anthers, back and front view; 7, pistil: enlarged. 
