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revised description of the tree given by me below, it will 
be seen that Miquel’s does not differ much more than does 
King’s from this revised description, which is based on a far 
larger number of specimens than these botanists had access to, 
and it appears possible, or even probable, that the tree grown in 
the Caleutta gardens, described by Miquel as Amoora spectabilis, 
was the same as the tree grown in the same gardens and calle 
by Wallich Sphaerosacme spectabilis = Amoora Wallichii, King. 
Dr. Stapf states that he has no doubt that the two are the same, 
and therefore that the older name Amoora spectabilis, Miq., must 
stand. 
REVISED DESCRIPTION. 
Amoora spectabilis, Mig. in Ann. Mus. Bot, Lugd. Bat. iv. 
37; Hiern in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. I. (561, at least in part). 
Syn. Amoora Wallichti, King in Journ, Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 
LXIV. 56; Sphaerosacme Rohituka, Wall. Cat. no. 1278 (in part). 
A tall handsome dioecious tree with a considerable trunk and a 
high crown. Sap of young parts milky; bark smooth, pale, blaze 
rather soft, streaked with brown and exuding drops of milky 
juice; twigs stout, rusty tomentose. Leaves crowded at the ends 
of the twigs 15 in. to 3 ft. long, odd-pinnate; rhachis stout, up to 
22 in. long (with the petiole), grey or rusty with microscopic fim- 
briate scales and minute stellate hairs when oung; leaflets 
opposite or subopposite, 9-19 or only 3-7 near the panicle, attain- 
ing 11 in. 5 in. or terminal up to 14 in.; decreasing in size 
towards the base of the rhachis, terminal elliptic, lateral oblong 
or those at base ovate and somewhat reflexed, acute or acuminate 
with obliquely rounded base, secondary nerves spreading then up- 
turned, 12-20 each side, distinct, often with small scattered rusty 
scales beneath, petioles 1-3 in., of terminal leaflet 1-11 in 
gig ng, rusty. Flowers on very stout pedicels 
¢- in. long, supported by subulate bracts + in. long. Calyzx lobes 
34 ovate. Petals as in the male, 3 or 4. Staminal tube as in the 
male; anthers well-developed with lateral slits, each containing a 
ed 
purple, 3—4-lobed. Capsule subglobose, 2 in. in diameter, 3~-4- 
ied : y jui ipe, tomentose. 
Seeds 1-4 with chestnut-coloured testa and searlet aril; radicle 
tose. 
