210 G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. 1, 



52. Saraca Linn. 

 Erect trees. Leaves abruptly pinnate, leaflets glnbrous rigid sub- 

 coriaceous or coriaceous, in bnd minutely stipellate, stipels very rarely 

 persistent, stipules large intrapetiolar scarious complete^ united, rarely 

 foliaceous partially free. Flowers in dense sessile paniculate rarely 

 simple corymbs on old nodes, or rarely axillary, with subpetaloid coloured 

 persistent or rarely decidous bracts and bracteoles. Calyx petaloid, 

 limb 4-cleft lobes imbricate snbequal, tube cylindric crowned by a lobed 

 disc. Corolla 0. Stamens 2-8, exserted, with long filiform filaments and 

 oblong versatile anthers opening longitudinally. Ovary many-ovuled, 

 with a stalk attached to and produced beyond the disc, in most of the 

 flowers rudimentary ; style long filiform, stigma minute suboblique 

 capitate. Pod flat dehiscent, rigidly coriaceous. Seeds exalbuminous. 

 Species 16 or more ; all South-Eastern Asiatic. 



Leaves quite glabrous; stipules small at length scarious 

 qnite united along their inner margins; stipels vanishing; 

 flowers yellow, at length becoming reddish, in paniculate 

 corymbs : — 



Bracts and bracteoles very deciduous, large where known ; 

 (pedicels glabrous) : — 



Leaflets 7-jugate, petiolules '4 in. long ; calyx-lobes 

 shorter than tube, bracts and bracteoles very large : — 

 Corymbs subsessile, dense, snbsimple ; pods over 3 in. 

 broad; (calyx-lobes more than half as long as tube; 

 stamens 4) 



Corymbs in lax long-peduncled panicles ; pods 2 in. 

 broad : — 



Calyx-lobes one-third as long as tube; stamens 4; 

 pod beakless 



Calyx-lobes half as long as tube ; stamens 7-8 ; pod 

 beaked 

 Leaflets 2-3- jugate, petiolules '25 in. long; calyx-lobes 

 as long as tube ; (corymbs in lax long-peduncled pani- 

 cles; pods 15 in. broad; bracts and bracteoles un- 

 known ; stamens apparently 7) 

 Bracts and bracteoles persistent, small ; (petiolules not 

 exceeding '2 in.) : — 



Stamens 7-8; (pedicels glabrous) : — 



Leaflets 4-6-jngate, coriaceous; bracteoles amplexi- 

 caul, ascending ... 



Leaflets 1-2-jugate, subcoriaceous ; bracteoles not 

 amplexicaul, spreading ... ... 



Stamens 3-4 : — 



Pedicels glabrous; ovary glabrous (leaflets 4-7- 



jugate) 



Pedicels puberulous; ovary pnbescent : — 



Leaflets 4-7- jugate, corymbs short ... ... 8. S. palembanica. 



1. S. thaipingensis . 



2. S. declinata. 



3. 8. cauliflorct. 



4. S. Kunstleri 



5. S. indica. 



6. S. bijuga. 



7. 8. macroptera. 



