490 D. Prain — Some additional Leguminosae. [No. 2, 



This description applies only to the Perak plant which might perhaps with 

 equal propriety be considered a distinct species, Saraca bijuga. Among Malayan 

 species it most closely resembles 8. triandra Baker, which also is very common in 

 Perak and also as a rule has 2-jugate leaflets. But it is at once distinguished in 

 flower by its glabrous peduncles and pedicels and its 8 stamens, and in fruit by its 

 smoother larger pods not so oblique at the base or so obtuse at the tip. 



2. Saraca cauliflora Bak. 



Add to description of F. B. I. : — Pod 12 in. long, 2 in. wide, with a 

 stout beak *75 in. long. 



Add to localities : — Perak ; Scortechini ! 



This appears to be rather a rare species in the Peninsula. There are 2 lanceo- 

 late bracteoles '35 in. long, but they are extremely deciduous ; the bracts, which are 

 also very deciduous, are large oblong, 1 in. long. 



26. Saraca declinata Mia. Flor, Ind. Bat i. 84 ; leaflets 12-16 

 (usually 14), petiolules long, bracteoles deciduous, corymbs rather dense, 

 usually from thick old branches, sepals less than half as long as the 

 calyx-tube, stamens 4. Jonesia declinata Jack, in Malay. Miscell. ii. 7. 

 74 ; Walp. Rep. i. 844. 



Perak; very common. Pahang ; Ridley! Selangor ; Curtis! 

 Malacca ; Goodenough ! Ridley ! Distrib. Sumatra ; Java. 



Extremely like S. cauliflora Baker, and when in flower only to be satisfactorily 

 distinguished by analysis. Still the writer believes Mr. Baker's species to be, as 

 species go in Saraca, a fairly separable one ; not only is the character of 4 stamens 

 always associated with shorter sepals, the pods are also distinguishable. Those of 

 8. declinata are usually rather longer than those of S. cauliflora, being often 15 in. 

 long ; they never appear to be beaked as those of 8. cauliflora are. 



2c. Saraca thaipingensis Cantley ex Prain, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 

 lxvi. 2. 211; leaflets 14-16, petiolules long, bracteoles deciduous, 

 corymbs very short dense and subsimple from thick old branches, sepals 

 nearly as long as calyx-tube, stamens 4. 



Perak ; very common. Malacca ; Berry ! 



This again in foliage and habit very closely resembles the two preceding species, 

 but may be separated by its shorter denser corymbs on which many of the lower 

 bracts persist for a considerably longer time; by the larger flowers, with much 

 longer sepals, and by the much broader pods. In the two preceding species the 

 pods are 2 in. across ; in this they are always over 3 in. wide, and are besides rather 

 thinner in texture. The corymbs are not over 3 in. across ; the stamens appear to 

 be always 4 only. 



3. Saraca Lobbiana Bak. 



Add to description : — Pod 12 in. long, 2*25 in. wide. 

 The pod is almost exactly like that of 8. declinata in shape, i.e., it has not got 

 a persistent beak ; in size it is more like that of 8. cauliflora. It differs, however, 

 from both in having a longer stipe, 1*25 in. in length. In none of the flowers 

 examined by the writer have more than 6 stamens been found, in a few of the 

 flowers only 5 arc present. 



