36 . MERRILL. 



Malaya: cultivated occasionally in India and the Malay Peninsula, fide Praiii. 

 Koorders " says that in Java it is cultivated for its edible fruit, and tliiiiks it 

 probably a native of India. 



2. Cynometra inaequifolia A. Gray Bot. Wilkes U. S. Explor. Exped. (1854) 

 473; F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1S80) 71; Vid. Phan. Cuming. Philip. (1885) 110, Rev. 

 PI. Vase. Filip. (1886) 118; Merr. in Philip. .Tourn. Sci. 1 (IDOfi) Suppl. (13, 3 

 (1908) Bot. 82. 



Schotia speciosa Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 356, ed. 2 (1845) 251, ed. 3, 2: 100, 

 non Jacq. 



Luzon, Province of Cagayan, Cuming 1297 in Herb. Kew.: Province of Zam- 

 bales. For. Bur. 1103S Zschokkc : Province of Lagnna, Wilkes Expedition in U. S. 

 Xat. Herb, (tj'pe), For. Bur. 10053 Curran: Province of Batangas, For. Bur. 

 1629 Curran <C Merritt: Province of Bataan, Whit ford s. n.: Province of Rizal, 

 Merrill 1861, 261.',, For. Bur. 2883 Ahem's collector, Bur. Set. 3336 7?amo,s-. 



Native names: Dila-dila, cabilian (Rizal) ; palanapoy (Zambales) ; halitbitan, 

 ex Blanco. 



Endemic? 



This species has been reported from the Malay Peninsula bj' Baker -' and 

 Prain,-* but from the extended description given by the latter it seems to me 

 that the form from the Malaj' Peninsula is distinct from that of Luzon, that is, 

 true Cynometra inaequifolia A. Gray. The species is very closely allied to C. 

 bijuga Spanoghe, and seems to be distinguishable only by comparatively trivial 

 characters, larger, rather more coriaceous leaves which «,re somewhat pale beneath, 

 their apices obscurely broad-acuminate and somewhat refuse, the veins and 

 reticulations prominent, not obscure as stated by Prain for this species, and its 

 nearly smooth or only slightly rugose pods. 



3.' Cynometra bijuga Spanoghe in Linnaea 15 (1841) 201, nomen; Miq. Fl. 

 Ind. Bat. 1 ' (1855) 78; Perk. Frag. Fl. Philip. (1904) 7. 



Cynometra ramiflora subsp. bijuga Prain ex King in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 66 " 

 (1897) 198. 



Luzon, Province of Zambales, Hallier s. n. Leyte, For. Bur. 12121 Rosenhluth. 

 Palawan, For. Bur. 3185 Curran. 



Var. mimosoides (Wall.). 



Cynometra mimosoides Wall. Cat. (1832) No. 5817. 



Cynometra ramiflora var. mimosoides Baker in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 2 (1878) 

 267; Prain 1. c. 



Panay, Cuming 1652. Mixdan.\o, For. Bur. 11555 Whitford, leaves only. 



What I take to be typical Cynometra bijuga Spanoghe (C. ramiflora var. hete- 

 rophylla Thwaites) extends, according to Prain, from Ceylon to the Andaman 

 Islands, Joliore, Perak, Singapore, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, and I'imor. As to 

 the specific name, Prain suggests that Cynometra mimosoides Wall, should be 

 taken up according to strict priority, but like the original publication of C. 

 bijuga, C. mimosoides was a nomen nudum. C. bijuga Spanoghe was, however, 

 described in 1855, but I have found no record of a printed description of C. 

 mimosoides Wall, before the year 1878, and then only as a variety of C. ramiflora. 

 The var. mimosoides extends from Ceylon to India and the Andaman Islands. 



"Meded. 's Lands Plantent. 11 (1894) 271. 

 =^Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 2 (1878) 267. 

 =* Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 66= (1897) 199. 



