1897.] D. Praia — Some additional Leguminosa?. 493 



Tins species is extremely common in Perak as well as in Malacca. It lias also 

 been once obtained in the Bindings (by Bryant), and once in Penang (by Curtis, 

 n. 163 ! ). There is besides a specimen at Calcutta from Sumatra (Teysmann 3038 ! ), 

 named " Jonesia palembanica var. ? " which, while not precisely Miquel's J. palemban- 

 ica, is not distinguishable from Mr. Baker's species ; it may be necessary hereafter 

 in monographing Saraca to treat S. triandra as only a variety of S. palembanica. 



The synonym Jonesia triandra Roxb. must be deleted, for Roxburgh's Jonesia 

 triandra is Afzelia bijuya. And, though it is not at all clear what Jonesia scan dens 

 Roxb. may have been, there is every reason to believe that it too belongs to some 

 other genus. The fact that it was ' scandent,' for Roxburgh having said so 

 enables that to be taken for granted, most certainly precludes its citation under 8. 

 declinata as Miquel, or under 8. triandra, as Baker would suggest. 



5. Saraca latistipulata Praia, Joum. As. Soc. Beng. lxvi. 2. 217 ; 

 leaflets 12, stipellate, short-petioluled, bracfceoles ascending amplexicaul 

 persistent, stamens 2 ; stipules large, foliaceous, only connate at their 

 bases between the petiole and the stem. 



Perak ; Ridley ! 



Petiolules "15 in., twice as long as the subulate firm persistent stipels ; leaflets 

 very firmly coriaceous, ovate-lanceolate acute or acuminate, bases almost equally 

 rounded, 5 in. long, 1*5 in. wide, dark-green dull glabrous above, finely puberulous 

 on the midrib beneath as also on the margins, the petiolules, leaf-rachis and stipels ; 

 stipules foliaceous sometimes 1'5 in. long, each with bold midrib, obliquely cordate, 

 the outer free margin of each auriculate, the inner margins cuneate and connate 

 throughout their lower third between petiole and stem. Corymbs very few-flowered 

 (sometimes flowers subsolitary), clustered on warted nodes along thick branches 

 hardly *75 in. long ; pedicels puberulous ; bracts persistent, bracteoles triangular 

 puberulous. Sepals under '25 in. long. Filaments about twice as long as sepals. 

 Pod oblong, 2 in. long, '8 in. wide. 



A most remarkable species, which deserves perhaps to be treated as the type of 

 a distinct section. 



112. HUMBOLDTIA Vahl. 



5. Humboldtia decurrens Bedd. ex Oliv. in Hook. Ic. Plant, xxiv. 

 t. 2368 ; branches hollow, nodes constricted, spur of stipule large ovate 

 subacute, leaves distinctly petioled, rachis winged, leaflets 8-12, petio- 

 lules ; petals 5. 



S. India ; Travancore, Beddome, Bourdillon ! 



A tree 40-50 feet high, trunk 1 foot in diam., branchlets cinnamon-brown 

 tomentose. Stipules obliquely lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 15-25 in. long, below 

 the point of attachment obliquely ovate or reniform, leaf-rachis a foot long, leaflets 

 elongate-lanceolate, 6-15 in. long, the lower shorter than the others, thinly 

 coriaceous, base obtuse, apex acuminate. Racemes short axillary, solitary or paired, 

 often hardly exceeding the stipules, bracteoles and sepals downy on the back, the 

 latter 5 in. long. Petals oblanceolate or oval, as long as the sepals. Pod 3 5-5 in. 

 long, 1-1*5 in. wide near the tip, tomentose. 



This is at once distinguished from other species of Humboldtia by its alate 

 rachis. 



