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Sal forests of Dehra Din and the Siwaliks in the United 
Provinces, and it extends to the forests of Chota Nagpore and 
further south to those of Ganjam. There is a specimen collected 
by Mr. H. H. Haines in the Chanda forests of the Central 
Provinces at Kew. The late Mr. A. W. Lushington sent me 
leaves of it collected at Ukroba in the Madgol hills of Vizagapatam 
at 3000 ft. and I think this must be its southern limit at any 
rate on the eastern side of the Peninsula. I think there can be 
very little doubt that it is Posoqgueria longispina, Roxb. (Randia 
longispina, DC. & W.&A.) figured in Roxburgh’s drawing 
No. 1379 from which Wight’s No. 582 was copied, but I must 
confess that some points of the figures and descriptions do not 
quite agree with the specimens. “The calyx-lobes, for instance, ” 
nearly half an inch, but there is Gonsiderable variation in both, 
so that I think I can consider that the little tree of the Sal 
huge is Randia longispina, DC. for the purposes of the “‘ Madras 
Flor 9> 
ics: in 1882, I went to the Madras Presidency, I soon came 
across a Randia of quite different aspect common in the dry 
thorny scrub forests of the Districts bordering on the East Coast 
from the Kistna river to Madras. It is a stiff little tree or shrub 
with strong thorns in pairs, many white flowers turning yellow 
and small obovate, rather thick leaves rarely more than 1 in. 
long. This seems to me to be undoubtedly the plant described 
by Lamarck and figured by him, and it is well represented in 
Roxburgh’s drawing No. 136 and Wight’s No. 580. It seems to 
e the true Randia dumetorum, Lamk. It is a small tree or 
shrub with grey bark and hard close-grained wood and it is 
found all along the Eastern Coast and inland in the Deccan 
and Carnatic, extending probably northwards in drv localities, 
perhaps even to the Ganges. In the scrub forests near the coast 
the leaves are more or less glabrous, but inland, in the thicker 
forests of the scarp of the Deccan plateau, they are often quite 
tomentose. Near the Coast, indeed usually on the Coast sands, 
is found a form with rather smaller leaves and more fascicled 
flowers, with slender spines. I feel sure that this is Posoqueria 
floribunda, Roxb. (Randia floribunda, DC.) figured in Roxburgh’s 
No. 2198, copied in Wight’s Icones as No. 583. But it is scarcely 
more than a variety of R. dumetorum, and it seems to me that 
Posoqueria nutans, Roxb. (Roxburgh Fig. No. 2199—Wt. Ie. 
t. 581) which was described from a plant cultivated in the 
Calcutta Botanic Garden is a eee only Randia dumetorum 
- cultivated in a moister clim 
Randia tomentosa, W. & Pi 388, is only definitely represented 
at Kew by two very TE penesh specimens, both probably from 
the same gathering, viz.: Wt. Colln. No. 1277 and Wallich 
Colin. No. 8264a (Herb. Wight & Dindigal) collected by Wight 
‘in dry jungle about 1800 ft. above the sea.’’ The two look 
