Dr. WALKER-ARNOTT on Samara læta, Linn. 371 
short, but obvious. These specimens were raised in the Calcutta Botanic 
Garden from seeds sent by Dr. Heyne: but in my native specimens from 
Quilon, also of the male plant, the flowers are. almost sessile, so that the 
bracteoles sometimes reach up to the middle of the calyx. If the length of 
the pedicels affords no assistance, it will be impossible to say to which species 
the fructiferous specimens belong: and if moreover the petals of S. atro- 
punctata become pubescent on their inner surface as the buds expand, the 
supposed new species may have to be again reduced. At present I distinguish 
it as follows :— 
S. atro-punctata, floribus racemosis, bracteolis. pedicello florigero duplo longioribus, petalis 
obtusis intüs glabris, foliis coriaceis. 
Hab. In Penins. Indiz Orient., ad Quilon. 
