126 ANNALS OF ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
PLATE 144. 
ArsoDEIA Scortecuinu, King in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, for 1889, .ام‎ 2, p. 405. 
A small glabrous tree, the branchlets usually pale brown. Leaves 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. Sramens glabrous, shorter than the petals; the filaments twice as Jong as the 
anthers, slender, rising from a deep, 5-lobed, disc; 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, g.abrous, 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. 
Puare 144. Alsodeia Scurtechini, King. 1, flowering branch ; 2. ripe fruits: of natural size; 3, seed; 4. flower 
dissected; 5, the stamens and their dise removed from the same; 6, stamens, back and front view: enlurged. 
PLATE 145. 
ALSODEIA CONDENSA, King in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, for 1889, pt. 2, p. 405. 
A glabrous tree; tne older branchlets pale, lenticellate. Zeares membranous, shortly 
petiolate, inequilateral, elliptie to elliptic-oblong, sub-acute, sub-entire, gradually narrowed 
below the middle to the aeute 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 З to 45 in., petiole "25 
to "83 іп; stipules subulate, 35 to 53 in. Panicls axillary, crowded, much branched, 
spreading, 1 to 25 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. S/amens 
glabrous, the filaments rather short, from a fleshy dise; 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. 
| PLATE 145. Alsoleia condensa, King. 1, flowering branch; ?, panicles with ripe fruit: of natural size; 3, seed ; 
4, flower, dissected; б, anthers with their tube; 6, anthers, back and front view; 7, pistil: enlarged. 
