358 JACK’S MALAYAN PLANTS. 
not mentioned as so doing, in the great enumerations of 
plants. For instance, Polypodium cultratum, which, accord- 
ing to authors, inhabits Jamaica and Martinique, is also 
found here on the trunks of old trees, at Nouvelle Découverte, 
and in the forests which skirt the Grand Bassin. . A little 
Lycopodium, bearing much similarity to L. Helveticum, and 
named by Desvaux L. pusillum, grows, according to the 
latter writer, in Bourbon only, but has been gathered by 
M. Bouton on the damp bark of old trees in our woods. 
Aspidium molle and Nephrodium pectinatum, the first of which 
is stated by Willdenow to be a native of St. Leon of Caraccas, 
and the habitat of the other is unknown by that author, both 
grow in Mauritius. 
A short description has been given by M. Bouton of a 
species of Spondias, indigenous to Mauritius, and which he 
has met with on Long Mountain, in dry and barren soil. It 
is remarkable for the elegant form of its compound leaves, 
the leaflets of which are marked with red nerves and covered 
with close-set, silky and soft hairs. At Professor Hooker's 
suggestion, it has been called S. pubescens. 
DESCRIPTION OF MALAYAN PLANTS. 
i By WILLIAM Jack. 
[Continued from Vol. iii. of First Series, p. 89.] 
HEDYCHIUM SUMATRANUM. W.J. 
Spica imbricata nutante, corolla labio bifido, laciniis oblongis 
divergentibus. 
Gandasuli Utan. Malay. 
From Saluma, on the west coast of Sumatra. 
Stem erect. Leaves alternate, short-petioled on their 
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