139 
There is a Banksian specimen, no. 84 in the British Museum, 
with a note by Dryander ‘‘v. Hort. Malab. Tom. 1. tab. 37”’, 
apparently received from a Dutch collector, which should prob- 
ably be referred to this species. 
In the Flora of British India, Clarke gave a description of 
S. heedii, based entirely on the picture in Rheede Hort. Malab. 
vill. t. 24, and Brandis in his ‘‘ Indian Trees ’’ assigned to this 
species specimens from ‘I‘ravancore collected by Bourdillon. 
Rheede’s figure is accompanied by no description of any value, 
and it is very doubtful what his plant may have been. The 
flowers appear to have a short tube, but the large globular fruits 
and flattened discoid seeds so closely resemble those of S. Nuz- 
vomica that it seems highly probable they belonged to that 
species, while the leaves and flowers may have been those of 
another plant. 
Under the circumstances, therefore, it seems better not to 
refer any of our modern specimens to Clarke’s S. Rheedit, as 
Brandis has done, nor attempt to reconcile them with Rheede’s 
figure, but to describe them as a new species and place S..Rheedii, 
Clarke, among “‘ species excludenda.”’ (See p. 208.) 
. @enea; and it is therefore somewhat doubtful whether the 
resemblances represent a real affinity. Such a distribution, 
Owever, as the moist evergreen forests of Travancore, Silhet 
Perak and the calcareous mountains of N. Annam is not un- 
known. The marked affinity of S. aenea with the Siamese 
S. Vanprukii is also of interest geographically. 
The three specimens referred to the variety acuminata agree 
fairly closely with those of the type from Travancore, and the 
distribution of the species closely resembles that which apparently 
obtains in S. cinnamomifolia, Thw., and its Indian variety (see 
D. 194). The leaves in the variety have rather long drip tips, 
and the stems appear to be rounded rather than quadrangular. 
3. §. Vanprukii, Craib in Kew Bull. 1911, p. 421. deser 
emend.; species S. aenea, A. W. Hill, arcte affinis, inflorescentiis 
densifloris, corollae tubo longiore lobis ellipticis marginibus 
glabris differt. 
Folia 8-17 cm. longa, 3-7 em. lata, trinervia vel subtripli- 
hervia. Cymae axillares, paniculatae, 2-3 cm. longae. | Corolla 
»-< mm. longa, intra ad faucem praecipue pilis minutis laneis 
imstructa, tubo 1-1'25 mm. longo. Antherae glabrae, filamentis 
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