238 
Ovulariopsis obclavata, Wakef., sp. nov. : 
aculae indistinctae vel nullae. Caespitul: hypophylli, effusi, 
so, 
Habitat. On leaves of Tecoma leucorylon, Barbados, April, 
1920, W. Nowell. 
XXXVI.—AMOORA SPECTABILIS AND 
A. WALLICHII. 
H. H. Harness. 
The tree we are here concerned with is one described by Sir 
George King in the Journal of the Asiatic Soc. of Bengal, Lxiv. 
p- 96, as Amoora Walliehwi from specimens in the Calcutta 
Botanic Gardens undoubtedly named by Wallich Sphaerosacme 
spectabilis and taken from a tree originally brought from Goal- 
para in Assam. 
Amoora spectabilis, Miq., is described in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. 
iv. 37, also, as Miquel says, from a tree in the Calcutta Botanic 
Gardens called Aglaia spectabilis, the native country of which 
him. 
Hiern, in the Flora of British India, described what he con- 
sidered to be A. spectabilis, Miq., from fruiting specimens collected 
by McClelland, near Rangoon, adding the characters of the 
flowers from Miquel’s description of Amoora spectabilis. 
King (l.c.) gives as synonyms for his Amoora Wallichii 
“ Sphaerosacme spectabilis, Wall. MSS. in Herb. Calc., Amoora 
spectabilis, Hiern (not of Miquel) in Flor. Brit. Ind. i. 561,” 
and he writes :— 
““There has been some confusion in dealing with this plant. 
the vee. But Miquel’s description does not fit Wallich’s plant 
pant ; but which may be the same as Sphaerosacme spectabilis, 
all. 
It may be noted that Dr. Stapf considers King to have made an 
erroneous statement in saying that Miquel considered Sphaero- 
, Wall., as the type of his Amoora spectabilis, 
because Miquel does not mention the name Sphaerosacme spec- 
ap ye believed he 
tabilis). Wallich Sphaerosacme spectabilis (= Aglaia spec- 
