124 ANNALS OF ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
A tree from 20 to 30 feet in height; readily distinguished by its open, comparatively long, racemes. 
This closely resembles Blume’s Pro:thesia Javanica. 
Prate 142A. Alsodeia Hookeriana, King. 1, flowering branch; 2, branch with flowers and fruits in various stages: 
of natural size; 3, flower seen from below; 4, fluwer seen from above; 5, flower dissected; 6, anthers and their 
disk; 7, anther, front view; 8, anther, back view; 9, ovary and style: enlarged. 
PLATE 142B. 
AısoperA Wmayr King in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, for 1889, pt. 2, p. 403. 
A sub-glabrous shrub, the branchlets with pale brown puberulous bark, rarely lenti- 
cellate. Leaves membranous, glabrous, shining, shortly petiolate, oblanceolate, shortly 
acuminate, distinctly serrulate, narrowed to the base, length 3:5 to 4:5, rarely 6 to 7 in., 
breadth 1 to 2 in., petiole "1 to “2 in.; stipules linear, only 71 in. long. Rucemes very 
short, crowded, axillary or extra axillary, :25 in. long; bracteoles broadly ovate, pube- 
scent. Sepals lanceolate, tomentose externally. Petals oblong, obtuse, thickened and 
tomentose along the midrib. Stamens from the inside of a dise which is as deep as the: 
filaments are long. Anther ovate-cordate, with a dorsal, broadly ovate-acute, membranous 
appendage as broad as itself, and a terminal apical process from each cell. Ovary 
sessile, densely villous as is the base of the cylindric style; stigma sub-capitate. Capsule 
minutely fulvous-velvetty when young, glabrous when old, globular-obovoid with obtuse 
angles, 1:2 in. or more long and 1 in. in diam,; the valves in debiscence compressed, 
blunt. ‚Seeds ovoid, brown, mottled, with sub-apical papillate pitted caruncle. 
Perak, at low elevations; Scortechini, Wray, King's Collector. ` 
A shrub 8 to 10 feet high. In respect of leaves very like A. Hookeriana, but smaller. The 
very short racemes, more hairy flowers and larger velvetty capsules distinguish it, however, from that 
species. 
Pıare 142B. Alsodeia Wrayi, King. 1, flowering branch; 2, ripe fruit; 3, section of ripe fruit; 4, seeds: of 
natural size; 6, flower dissected; 6, anthers and pistil; 7, front view of anther; 8 back view of anther; enlarged. 
PLATE 143A. 
ALsODEIA CINEREA, King in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, for 1839, pt. 2, p. 403. 
A glabrous shrub or small tree, the branchlets whitish, sparsely lenticellate. Leaves 
membranous, elliptic-ovate or lanceolate, sometimes oblanceolate, acuminate, narrowed at 
the base, serrulate, pale when dry; nerves 8 to 10 pairs, slightly prominent below; 
length 4 to 6 in., breadth 15 to 2۰5 in., petiole -2 to -4 in.; stipules scarious, pale, 
ovate-acute, striate, puberulous, -25 in. long, deciduous. Racemes terminal, 2 to 6 in. 
long, bearing numerous 2-to 5-flowered cymules; bracts broadl y ovate, scarious, concave, 
striate. Sepals broadly ovate, ciliolate. Petals oblong, obtuse, the apex undulate erose 
or toothed, edges ciliolate. Stamens from the edge of a fleshy disc; filaments very short, 
glabrous; anthers ovate, pilose near the base, with a broadly ovate appendage from the 
middle of the back curving over the apex, the cells divergent at the apex and each 
with a subulate terminal appendage. Ovary sessile, glabrous, globose, grooved: Style 
cylindric, with a few white adpressed hairs ; Stigma obliquely truncate, cup-shaped. 
