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the ovary and closes with a narrow 2-4 toothed mouth round the 

 base of the styles ; but 1 have recently found that in a Siwalik 

 specimen the disc is laciniate and this, in conjunction with the varia- 

 tion noted under B. Hamiltoniana appears to indicate that the disc 

 is rather a variable character in the germs. When entire it is usually 

 circumsciss round base and is carried up as a calyptra on the young 

 fruit; the latter is ellipsoid or ovoid-oblong, not globose "as in 

 B. return and B. montana. For this species 1 propose the name 

 BriJe/ia verrucosa. 



Hooker's specimen from Parasnath may be taken as the type, and 

 Wallich's from Nepal, Griffith's No. 4887 (Darjeeling) and my 

 specimens marked Chokamb (Siwalik Mts.), at Kew, are all 

 typical. Karl Gehrmann (Eng. Jahrb. xli. Beibl. 95, 39 .June 1908 I 

 says of B. montana " Die grossen kahlen eiformigen bis verkehrt- 

 eiformigen Blatter mit randlaiifigen Sekundarnerven. grauschim- 

 mernder LTnterseite (dann die kahlen brakteen und die pfefferkorn- 

 grossen runden Kapselfruchte) charakterisieren die Art sehr scharf." 

 With the exception of the part placed in brackets this is a good 

 partial description of B. montana Hook. f. or B. verrucosa mihi, but 

 not of B. montana Willd., to which the bracketed portion applies. 



Wallich's No. 7879, called B. montana (mentioned above) was 

 referred by Muell. Arg. 1. c. p. 493 to B. retusa var. squamosa : and 

 as this is identical with Lamarck's Cluytia sqttamosa the question 

 arises as to whether the name B. squamosa Gehrm., should not be 

 applied to our plant. Lamarck quotes Rheede's figure (Mai. ii. 23, 

 t, 16) which almost certainly represents a form of B. retusa as 

 identified by Mueller, and not our B. verrucosa. Roxburgh's PI. Ind. 

 (1. c.) evidently refers to the same species as is described in his 

 Coromandel Plants. 



Mueller in the Prodromus (1. c.) cites under B. montana. Cluytia 

 montana "Koxb. and B. montana Roxb. ; he also refers to a specimen 

 collected by Klein in Herb. Willdenow, which I have not seen. He 

 further refers to a specimen of Griffith's (no. 4887) from Bengal, this 

 last, however, is typical B. verrucosa as stated above. Beddo'me's 

 B. montana is doubtful. 1 have seen no specimen and his description 

 leaves it uncertain. Brandis (1. c.) evidently alludes to B. verrucosa 

 and he correctly describes the fruit as ovoid-oblong. Gamble (1. c.) 

 also apparently refers to B. verrucosa. 



III. Bribelia Hamiltoniana Wall. (Fl. Br. Ind. v. 271). 



Prain (Bengal PL p. 927) thought that he recognized Roxburgh's 

 B. montana in B. Hamiltoniana Wall., but he also includes ^our 

 B. verrucosa (var. communis, 1. e. p. 928). The identification, 

 omitting the variety, is probably correct, though the identity with 

 Roxburgh's figure and description is far from absolute. 



The type of B. Hamiltoniana is Wallich's No. 7881, collected by 

 Hamilton and marked by him " Bridelia montana, Mungger, 3rd 

 Sept., 1811" (Mungger is now known as Monghir, or Monghyr). 

 This plant has leaves 2-27' long, narrowly elliptic to broadly elliptic - 

 obovate. sometimes obtusely acuminate with the blade suddenly con- 

 tracted into the tip, but not in so marked a manner as in the Concan 



