Saraca.] LegumillOSCB. I 1 3 



frequently the fruit is attacked by an insect, and then forms a large soft 

 lobed spherical gall with numerous small cavities. 



Heart-wood hard, heavy, dark red, strong, and handsome. 



54. CRUDXA, Schreb. (?) 



A tree, 1. pinnate, Iflts. alternate, fl. in terminal racemes ; 

 cal.-tube very short, segm. 4 or 5,rotundate; pet. o; stam. 10, 

 free, the alternate ones shorter; ov. I -celled with 3 or 4 

 ovules ; pod 1 -seeded, seed without endosperm. 



C. zeylanica, Benth. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxv. 314 (1865). 

 Detarium zeylanicum, Thw. Enum. 414. C. P. 3714. 

 Fl. B. Ind. ii. 271. Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 190 (poor). 



A large tree; l.-rachis 1 \-2 in., glabrous, lflts, 2-6, alternate, 

 usually with a terminal one but sometimes ending with a pair, 

 on short, thick stalks, 2-5 in., oval or ovate-oval, unequal and 

 rounded at base, shortly and obtusely acuminate, glabrous, 

 rather thick, glaucous beneath, minutely reticulate ; fl. small, 

 on short ped., arranged in terminal spicate racemes with a 

 stout rachis 2-5 in. long; cal.-segm. roundish, obtuse, persistent,; 

 pet. o ; ov. oblong, tomentose ; pod (very immature) very 

 shortly stalked, oblong, compressed, slightly falcate, apiculate, 

 densely tomentose. 



Moist low country; very rare. I have only seen the C. P. specimens 

 collected at Galpata, near Kalutara, in 1861 and 1863. Fl. January. 



Endemic. 



The material is insufficient for a full description, or even for certainty 

 as to the genus. I have followed Thwaites in points not shown in the 

 specimens. He describes 3 or 4 ovules in the ov.; hence Bentham has 

 transferred the plant from Detarium to Crtidia, the fruit being unknown 

 to both. 



In Jan., 1891, I obtained from the Prov. of Uva, under the name of 

 'Okuru ; (which properly belongs to Cleidion javanicuvi), some ripe pods 

 which are unknown to me, which may perhaps be the fruit of the 

 present species. They are i-ij in. long, and nearly as much in diam., 

 not compressed, slightly curved along dorsal suture, very gibbous and 

 rounded below, very shortly apiculate, pericarp thin, brittle-leathery, 

 rough but glabrous outside, yellowish-grey, indehiscent with a tendency 

 to split along dorsal suture ; seed large, solitary, with thick plano-convex 

 cotyledons, without endosperm. Leaves, said to be from the same tree, 

 are those of the plant here given as Cynometraramijlora (type). Further 

 investigation is needed. 



55. SARACA, L. 



Small tree, 1. abruptly pinnate, fl. in dense terminal or 

 axillary panicles ; cal. pctaloid, with a long tube and 4 

 1 n. 1 



