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NiCOBARS ; Nancowry, Jelineh ! Kamorta, Kurz ! 



The Nicobarese name for this tree is " Kawas." Kurz has erred in identi- 

 fying it with P. hubalinum Bth., which it does not much resemble as regards leaves 

 and which it is totally unlike as regards fruits. He has erred still further in iden- 

 tifying it with P. oppositum Miq. which he supposed to be identical with P. huha- 

 linum. In x-eality P. oppositum has 2-jugate leaves, with leaflets more like those 

 of P. microcarpum than like those of either P. huhalinum or P. nicobaricum, and 

 with the gland on the main-rachis similarly situated. In spite of the fact that 

 Miquel's specimens have neither flowers nor fruits, the writer thinks they belong 

 to a tree that, though a member of the same group a&, is probably quite distinct from, 

 all three species mentioned. 



6. PiTHECOLOBiUM MICROCARPUM Beutb. iu TraDs. Linn. Soc. XXX, 

 676. An unarmed tree 30-70 feet high, with slender pubescent branches 

 with red anastomosing wrinkles, stem 10-15 in. thick, baik greyish- 

 brown. Leaves evenly 2-pinnate, rachis puberalous •5-'75 (rarely 

 1 "25-1 "5) in. long, with a gland just below the middle but none at base or 

 between the 1-jugate pinnae ; rachises of pinnae 2-4 in. long, puberulous, 

 glandless ; leaflets 3-4- (rarely only 2-) jugate, firmly chartaceous, ovate, 

 apex rather long obtusely caudate-acuminate, base of distal leaflets 

 cuneate of the others rounded, dark -green shining above, glaucescent 

 beneath, glabrous on both surfaces, distal pair 4-6 in. long, 2-3 in. wide, 

 proximal 3 in. long, 15 in. wide ; petiolules distinct, glabrous, '15 in. 

 long. Flowers in small 5-8-fld. heads "4 in. across, ou puberulous slender 

 pedicels •4-*6 in. long, fascicled in the axils of small bracts and subum- 

 bellate at the tips of puberulous peduncles 1 in. long, subcorymbosely 

 set on branchlets 2-3 in. long, themselves disposed in terminal and 

 axillary panicles 6-8 in. long, 4-6 in. wide. Calyx sessile glabrescent, 

 •05 in. long, tube carapanulate, teeth short deltoid, bracteoles short 

 lanceolate. Corolla white, "15 in. long, teeth ovate-lanceolate equalling the 

 tube, uniformly glabrous externally. Filaments united in a tube shorter 

 than that of corolla, free portion white, exserted, 35 in. long. Ovary 

 glabrous subsessile. Pod dehiscent along lower suture, spirally twisted, 

 175-2 in. long, •3-'4 in. wide, sutures thin, the upper very faintly sinuate 

 between the seeds, the valves thinly coriaceous, waxy bright-red. Seeds 

 8-10, pisiform, '2 in. in diam., testa thin, crustaceous, smooth, shining, 

 dark-purple ; arillus absent. Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. II, 304. Inga 

 hubalina Wall. Cat. 5272 not of Jack. Pithecolohiutn higeminum var. 

 hubalina Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. Ill, 207 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. 

 Bat. I, 33 and Suppl. 281, as to the Wallichian synonym only. 



Pekak; Scortechini QV. 1978! Kun s tier 12^1 \ 5492! 5842! 10354! 

 10729! 10802! Penang; Porter (Wall. Cat. 5272)! Curtis 1093! 

 Malacca ; Griffith 1947 ! Maingay 567 ! 574 ! Goodenough 1413 ! Berry 

 1161! Eervey! Singapore; Ridley \Q^^\ QQm\ T.Anderson 40! Kurz! 

 DiSTRiB. Sumatra {fide Miquel) ; Borneo. 



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