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Candollc's species and named it Melodornm moiiospennum with* 

 out, however, j)rovidmg any description. Afterwards he pub- 

 lished it as Orophca polycarpOy quoting as a synonym his own 

 nonien nudum. Coming to the Flora of British India we find the 

 Andaman plant included in tlie de.soription of Dc Candolle's 

 species. Subsequent authors have acquiesced in Flora of British 

 India treatment until, in King^s monograph of the Indian 

 A.nonaceaey we find the description and figure of 0. polycarpa 

 applj^ wholly to the Andaman plant. 



The receipt of copious material from Sium and Burma led the 

 writer to examine one of the few flowers in the AVallichian her- 

 barium, witb the result that he finds the Burmo-Siamese plant 

 agrees exactly with Wallich's and also with Pierre's 0. anceps. 



It thus becomes necessary to find a new name for the Andaman 

 plant, and the writer proposes to use Kurz's specific name for it, 



in the genus. 



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Descriptions of the two sjiecies do not appear necessary since for 

 0, polycarpa we have De Candolle's driginal description and 

 also Pierre's figure and description of O. anceps and for Melo- 

 dornm monospermum we have King's description and figure of 

 O, polycarpa. 



.The synonymy and distribution of the two species is aa 

 follows : — 



O. polycarpa, A.DC, in Mem. Soc, Genev. v. p. 39; Hook.f.et 

 Th., PL Ind.. i. p, iii; Griffith, Ic. PI. Ind. Or. iv. t. 654; Hook f, 

 et Th. m Hook. f. PI. Brit. Ind., i. p. 91 {pi. Andaman. excl.)\ 

 Wzin Journ. As. Soc. Beng., xliii. 2 p. 58 et For. PL Brit. 

 Burma, i. p. 49 {pi, Andaman. ea;cL); King in Journ. As. Soc. 

 Beng Ixi. 2 p. 85 et in Ann. lloy. Bot. Gard. Calc, iv. p. 109 

 {pL Ajidaman., floris descr. et tah. €.tcL); Brandis, Indian Trees, 

 p. 18, c^aoad pL hurmanicaw, 0. anceps, Pierre, PL For, Cochin 

 t. 4G ; I inet et Gagnep. in Bull. Soc. Bot. Pr., Mem. 4 p. 156 et in 

 Lecomte PL Gen. Indo-Chine, i. p. IIG. Bocayea polycarpa, 



^ Burma: hanks of Salween, anno 1827, TT^aZL Cat. 6431; Ava 

 journey, Griffith, 399; Amherst, Thaungyin valley, Lace 4715. 



r- otU^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^' ^^ ITin, evergreen luiigle, 400 m., 

 Rerr 31i2; Pre, 180 m., Phra Vanpruh 324; Me Thow, 600 m., 

 evergreen jungle, Taivn Winit 86. 



Cambodia: Samrong-tong, Pierre 7^8, 738c. 



Orophea monosperma, Craih, comb. nov. 0. polycarpa, Hook. 



f . et Th. in Hook, f . Fl. Brit. IncL, i. p. 91 (quoad pi. Andaman.) ; 

 Kuvz m Joiirn^ As. Soc. Beng., xliii. 2, p. 58 et For. Fl. Brit. 

 bZT'^1'^ ^9 kZ P\' ^^^1«^«^-) ; King in Journ. As. Soc. 



Alin^/T 7 -''"'''''''• '^*^^'' '^ 'y'- ^^^^'^- ^"^^^"^ e:ccl), nan. 



South Andaman, Knrz Kt'nn R%\, ^' n n ^ 

 Andaman, Par;!:in.;n 100 ^' "^' Collector, 



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