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main-nerves 4—5 pairs distinctly more prominent on both sides but especially beneath 
than the secondary reticulations, quite glabrous on both surfaces, somewhat glaucescent 
beneath, 10—12 сш. long, 6—7 cm. wide, petiolules 4 mm. long, quite glabrous as 
is the main-rachis, petiole below lowest pair of leaflets 3 сш. long; pod 20 cm. 
long, 85 cm. wide, 5 cm. thick, glabrous, 8—10-seeded; seeds cylindric or quadrate 
or slightly compressed antero-posteriorly, 86—40 mm. long, 16—18 mm. wide, 16—22 
mm, thick, arillate funicle at base of seed regularly cupular with a horizontal margin, 
Іхро-Оніхл : Tenasserim, between Sinbyudine and Aungthawara; Hearsey ! 
This fine tree is known to the Burmese as Руш Padouk, “but it is neither 
the one nor the other. The trees attain a girth of 10 feet and logs of 20 feet or 
more in length can be obtained. Тһе seeds when fresh and bright are worn as 
necklaces by the wild Siamese on the border,” 
The quotation is from a letter written by Mr. Hearsey, Extra Assistant Conservator 
of Forests, 5, Tenasserim Division. The leaves and pod sent by Mr. Hearsey are un- 
fortunately detached. These leaves have all the appearance of Pahudia or Inísia leaves. 
The pod and seeds are undoubted those of а Puhudia and the characters of that 
pod and particularly of its seeds indicate that the tree is specifically distinct from 
the other two species. 
The seeds make this species intermediate between Р. zylocarpa Kurz and P. 
javanica ; it differs however, (if the leaves here described belong to the pod, and 
there is little room for doubt that they do) in foliage; it differs still more in the 
seeds; instead of being laterally compressed, these are either cylindric or subquadrate 
or if compressed have their shorter diameter parallel to the axis of the pod. 
Рглте 45B.—Pahudia martabanica Prain. 5; leaf; 6, half of a pod; 7, seed, seen from side; 
8, seed, seen irom anterior edge; 9, transverse section of seed,—a of natural size. . 
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PLATE 46. 
LEUCOSTEGANE; Pra, 
Natural order Leguminose. | 
Trees; leaves abruptly pinnate, stipellate; stipules large, foliaceous, intrafoliar, connate ; 
pedicels bracteate ; calyx 2-bracteolate, jinfundibuliform with somewhat fleshy tube, 
limb 4-partite, lobes obtuse, imbricate, reflexed in flower; petals small, much shorter 
than calyx-lobes, 2, inserted in calyx-throat between upper and lateral sepals, the 
upper if present a staminode-like process; stamens only 2 perfect, opposite the lateral 
sepals, with large ovoid anthers, decurved plicate in bud, dehiscing longitudinally and 
with two erect short sterile staminodia between and above the fertile stamens; ovary 
stipitate, exserted, oblong, the stipe adnate to calyx-tube, style filiform, circinate in 
bud, stigma oblique; pod oblong, compressed, apiculate.—Species one, Malayan. | 
The species on which this genus is founded is a small tree discovered by 
Mr, H. N. Ridley of Singapore and referred by him in the field to Saraca. The presence 
of two small petals with what appears to be the rudiment of а third, makes this 
generic position impossible. It is nevertheless very nearly related in other respects 
io атаса, though it differs in having stipellate leaflets. It also, as regards its 
