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suBSP. bijuga are not specifically separable, for some examples from the Andamana 

 seem iutei-mediate between the two. There are, howevei*, no specimens that serve 

 to link either of the forms with the I -jugate subsp. genuina, and it will always be 

 necessii^y to keep them apart as distinct — they are certainly very easily distin- 

 guishable — varieties. 



Var. helerophylla is also said to be Indian ; it is, however, only found in 

 Indian gardens, though it does appear to be wild on the coasts of Ceylon. That var. 

 mimosoides occurs in India seems likely from its having been figured by Rheede, 

 though no one has ever collected it in Malabar again. It is, however, quite com- 

 mon in the Sundribuns at the northern end of the Bay of Bengal and extends from 

 that area down the eastern side of the Bay as far as Tenasserim and the Andamans ; 

 it has never been reported from the Malay Peninsula or Archipelago, where vak. 

 hetero'phylla (C. hijuga Miq.) is the representative form. And just as the two forms 

 grow side by side in the beach forests of the Andamans, so they both occur on the 

 coasts of Ceylon, for a plant from Trincomalee issued by Wallich under 5816/C is 

 the same thing as his own C. inimosoides from the coasts of Burma. Wight and 

 Arnott, too, say that they also have seen specimens from Ceylon ^which are the 

 same as Rheede's Malabar plant ; there is no doubt that Rheede's plant is Wallich'a 

 C. mimosoides. 



In the event of subsp. hijuga being treated as a "species" of which heterophylla 

 and mimosoides are only varieties, it must be noted that the name to be employed, 

 from the point of view of priority, should be Wallich' s, which is a decade anterior 

 to Spanoghe's. But the adoption of Wa'lich's name will afford an excellent example 

 of the disadvantage of the modern craze that insists on a rigid adherence to the 

 laws of priority, Spanoghe's name being so much the more suitable of the two. 



3. Ctnometra iNJiQUALiFOLiA A. Grray, Bofc. U. S. Expl. Exped. 473. 

 A lofty tree 150-200 feet high ; leafy shoots at first enveloped in im- 

 bricating bracts. Leaves even-pinnate, rachis glabrous 2-3 in. long; 

 leaflets 3-jugate, elliptic-oblong, base obliquely cuneate, inner side with 

 the lower third to two-thirds of margin straight, narrower than outer 

 with uniformly curved outline, apex subacuminate ; rigidly coriaceous, 

 dark-green, glabrous and smooth on both surfaces, shining above, lateral 

 nerves 8-9 pairs very faint aiid hardly distinguishable from the secon- 

 dary reticulations ; sessile, 2-3 in. long, 1-1*25 in. wide, the lowest the 

 smallest. Flowers in subcapitately congested axillary racemes 1-1 '5 in. 

 long, 1 in. wide, the closely imbricating bracts hard, striate, scarious, 

 broadly ovate, "25 in. across, pedicels puberulous, •25-3 in. long, with two 

 oblong membranous basal bracteoles '15 in. long. OaZ^a'- tube very 

 short, lobes 5, narrowly obovate, imbricate, ascending, '2 in. long, white. 

 Petals 5, oblanceolate, white, "2 in. long, a little narrower than sepals. 

 Stamens 10, filaments slender, '4 in. long, glabrous, anthers versatile. 

 Ovary densely pubescent, shortly stipitate, very oblique ; ovules 2. Pod 

 obovoid, thickly woody, obliquely obovoid, 2-2*25 in. long, 1-5 in. wide, 

 •75 in. thick. Seed solitary, irregularly oval-oblong, 1*6 in. long, 1 in. 

 broad, -5 in. thick. Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. II, 267. 



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