360 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Femniula. 



ovoid, glabrous, 3-grooved ; stigma sub-sessile, capitate. Carpels usu- 

 ally 2, oblong, blunt, flat, vertically striate, 2 in. long, each with two long 

 winged seeds. DC. Prodr. i. 568; Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. ]65; Cor. PI. ii. 

 t. J30; W. & A. Piodr. 104: Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 32; Thwaites 

 Enum. 52 ; Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. 368 ; Brand. For. Fl. 83 ; Miq. Fl. 

 Ind. Bat. Vol. I, pt 2, 599; Lawson in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. 1.624 ; 

 Kurz For. Flora Burma. I. 256. B". barbata, Mull. Phil. Trans. Inst. 

 Vict. Ill, 23. H. disperma, Vahl. Enum. II, 28 : Wall. Cat.' 4230 (in 

 part). H. euonymoides, Vahl, Enum. II. 98. H. obtusifolia, Wall, 

 (not of Roxb.) Cat. 4211 A and B. E. tortuosa, Wall. Cat. 4126 (in 

 part). Tonsella disperma, Foiv. Celastrinea? Wall. Cat. 9013. 



Malacca: Griffith, Maingay (Kew Distrib.) No. 396. Singapore; 

 HuUett. Distrib. — Sumatta Java, British India, Ceylon. 



Tliere has been considerable confusion about the Indian species of 

 the genua Hip^ocratea. The confusion originated to some extent with 

 Wallich who issued, under the same name H. obtusifolia, Roxb. and the 

 number 4"211, a plant which is really S. indica, Willd. In Mr. 

 Lawson's account of H, obtusifolia, Roxb. in Hooker's Flora of British 

 India (I. 623) the following six are reduced to that species, vi'z.y 

 H. barbata. Mull.; H. rlgida, Spanoghe; Salacia laevigata, Wight: 

 Hlppocratia ? grandiflora, WM Cat. 4213; H. roZM&iZi.?, Heyne in Wall. 

 Cat. 4215, and II. tortuosa. Wall. Cat. 4216. Besides Roxburgh's 

 description of H. obtusifolia, in Fl. Ind. I. 166, there is his original 

 coloured figure in the Calcutta Herbarium to guide us as to what plant 

 the author really meant to describe under t+iis name. Moreover, 

 so recently as 1883, there have been collected by Mr. J. S. Gamble at 

 Chengalapalam (in tlie Nellore districb of the Madi^aa Presidency) spe- 

 cimens (Herb. Gamb. No. J 2216) of a plant which agree absolutely 

 with Roxburgh's description and figure. These specimens have the 

 short panicles and obtuse emai'ginate fruits of Roxburgh's figure. Of the 

 six species mentioned by Mr. Lawson, H. barbata, Mull, alone should in 

 my opinion be reduced here, Muller's specimen of it exactly resembling 

 Roxburgh's figure in Herb. Calcutta. Salacial laevigata, Wight (of 

 which there is a coloured figure in Hooker's Bot. Misc. Til. 295, Suppl, 

 t. XXXVI) in my opinion more nearly resembles H. Grahamii, Wight 

 (111. I. 134 and Ic. 380) than H. obtusifolia, Roxb. I have seen no 

 specimen of H. rigida, Spanoghe, but Miquel's description of it (Fl. Ind. 

 Bat. I, pt. 2, 600) does not agree either with Roxburgh's description 

 or with his figure of H. obtusifolia. Of the three Wallichian species, 

 H. grandiflora (Cat. No. 4213) is a perfectly distinct good species which 

 has been described and figured by Korthals (Verh. Nat. Gesch. 

 p. 187 t. 39) as S. macrantha. H. vohobilis (Cat. No. 4215) consists of two 

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