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nate heads, 1*5 in. lon^j 1 in. in diam., peduncle 10-16 in. long. Calyx 

 tubular, shortly 5-cleft, '25 in. long, teeth pilose, elsewhere glabrous. 

 CVroZZa tubular, pale-yellow, segments subvalvate. Stamens 10, exserted, 

 the filaments connate below and adnata to corolhvtube ; anthers narrow. 

 Pod (inclading stipe 3-7 in. long) 15-20 in. long, 1*5 in. wide, -3 in. 

 thick, black, glabrous. Seeds 12-20, oval, '5 in. long, '35 in. wide, '2 

 in. thick, dark-brown and smooth throughout. Bak. Flor. Brit. Ind. 

 II, 289. P. Brunonis Grab, in Wall. Cat. 5288. P. africana Miq. Flor. 

 Ind. Bat. I, 52 not of R. Br. P. biglohosa Benth. in Hook. Journ. IV, 

 328 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 283 ; Koord. & Val. Bijdr. I, 276. P. 

 intermedia Hassk. Cat. Hort. Bog. 289 ; PI. Jav. Rar. 414. Mimosa 

 biglohosa Roxb. Flor. Brit. Ind. II, 551 not of Jacq. 



Singapore ; cultivated, Ridley 6928 ! Malacca ; Panchor, Goodenough 

 1748! DiSTRTB. Wild in Silhet, Cachar and Chittagong ; cultivated 

 sparingly in Indo-China and Malaya. 



Mr. Goodenough gives the native name s,H " Kada-ong ; " the seeds, he notes, 

 are used as peppermint. Tliis species is said by Reorders and Valeton to be wild 

 in Java ; the species cultivated by the Javanese is not, however, the present one, 

 bnt the next, P. speciosa Hassk. And ifc should be noted besides that the wild tree 

 in Java is not exactly the tree that is wild in Silhet, Cachar and Chittagong but is the 

 form that llasskarl proposed to ti'eat as a distinct species under the name P. inter- 

 onedia. Mr. Ridley's specimens, from the Singapore Gardens, are precisely like 

 those from Cachar and Chittagong (true P. Roxhurghii) ; Mr. Goodenongh's, on the 

 other had, are absolutely identical with those from .fava (true P. intermedia). 

 Before definitely deciding that P. intermedia and P. Roxhxirghii are the same 

 species, the writer would wish to stud}"- the former in the living state ; it is often 

 a rash thing to reduce to another, from herbarium material alone, species founded 

 by so competent a botanist as Hasskarl ; so far as our Calcutta specimens go, the 

 evidence is altogether in favour of these two trees being quite distinct.. 



3. Parkta speciosa Hassk. Flora XXV. Beibl. 55./ A large tree 

 with spreading branches, 80-100 feet higb, stem 2-3 feet in diam., young 

 branches glabrescent. Leaves 2-pinnate, main-rachis pubescent, 8-10 in. 

 long ; pinnae 10-16 pairs, subalternate, secondary rachises puberulous, 3 

 in. long; leaflets small almost straight, linear, close-set, 20-35 pairs, sub- 

 equally truncate at base, obtuse or ret use at apex, '25 in. long, '1 in wide, 

 with strong median and 3-4 pairs of distinct secondary nerves beneath, 

 margins with only a fevv scattered hairs; petiolar part of main-rachis 

 1-1*5 in. long, with 1 solitary gland midway between base and lowest 

 pair of leaflets and with 2-6 solitary glands between the bases of as 

 many pairs of pinnae towards apex of rachis. Floivers in dense narrowly 

 clavate heads, 2 in. long, -75 in. in diam., peduncles slender 16-20 in. 

 long. Calyx tubular, shortly 5-cleft, '25 in. long, teeth pilose, elsewhere 

 glabrous. Corolla tubular, white, segments subvalvate. Stamens 10, 

 exserted, the filaments connate below and adnate to corolla-tube ; anthers 



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