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perfect stamens, remarkably resembles the Chinese genus Lysidice Hance, with which 
it obviously has considerable affinity though not sufficiently close to admit of the two 
being considered congeneric. 
И, Ез 
47. LEUCOSTEGANE LATISTIPULATA Pra, 
A small tree with slender leafy pubescent branches; leaves 20 cm. long, rachis 
puberulous, leaflets 6-jugate, rigidly coriaceous, ovate-lanceolate, apex acuminate, base some- 
what obliquely rounded, 11—15 сш. long, 4 cm. wide, dark-green, dull glabrous above, 
pubescent on the midrib beneath and puberulous along the margins, petiolules 4 mm. 
long, pubescent, stipels small, subulate, persistent, pubescent; stipules large, foliaceous, each 
with а strong midrib, ovate, acute, auriculate at base on their outer free margin, connate 
between petiole and branch for one-third their length on the inner margin, from 1:25--4 
ста, long, from "75--2:5 cm. wide, usually slightly unequal; flowers in few-flowered cymes, 
sometimes reduced to single pedicels, clustered on rugose woody nodes along thick old 
branches, under 2 cm, long, with ovate-lanceolate, persistent basal bracts and with 2 
subopposite, amplexicaul, triangular, persistent bracteoles midway between bract and calyx- 
tube, pedicels and bracteoles puberulous ; ca/yz white, tube cylindric, 4 mm. long, shorter 
than the limb of 4 narrow, oblong lobes, pubescent on margin at tips; petals small, 2 latera, 
ovate, acute with truncate base and very short claw, posterior very minute; stamens 2 with 
two rudimentary posterior short staminodes, anthers nearly twice as long as broad, 
filaments in fully opened flowers twice as long as calyx-lobes, pink; ovary pubescent along 
the margins; pod oblong, obliquely obtuse at the apex with a rather prominent beak, 
obliquely rounded at base, 5 cm. long, 25 cm. wide. Saraca latistipulata Prain, Journ. 
Аз. Soc. Beng. lxvi. 2. 217 (1897). 
Maayan PENINSULA: Perak, Dindings at Lumut; Ridley 3089! 8006! 
Prats 46.—Leucostegane latistipulata Prain. 1, portion of branch from Lumut, Dindings; 2, 
portion of old branch with flowers; 3, aestivation of Lysidice rhodostegia Hance, for comparison with 
4, aestivation of Leucostegame latistipulata; 5; bud; 6, young flower, opened; 7, ‘young flower 
dissected; 8, 9, young stamens from side and front; 10, ovary; 11, pod. 
In Icones Plantarum t. 1192, Oliver describes the petals of Lysidice rhodostegia as 
remarkable for their convolute aestivation, In twenty flowers of Lysidice examined 
the aestivation found has been asshown in РгАТЕ 46, fig. 3, 
АҚЖ, 
PLATE 47. | 
48. 02051۸ Cortisu Prain in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. lxvi. 2. 221. (1897). 
Natural order Leguminose, : 
A tall tree 80—150 feet high, with spreading crown and densely grey-pubescent 
branchlets; stem 2—3 feet thick; leaves odd-pinnate, rachis 3—4 in. long, petiole arti- 
culate on an auricled node with an interpetiolar 2-lobed stipule, leaflets 7—9 alternate 
with peticlules 6 mm. long, closely puberulous like the rachis, obovate to shlong de 
slightly obliquely rounded ог cuneate, apex rounded or tapering to a bluntly w Papi tip, 
