ont 
and the species should have been described before the flowers, 
either the male or the bisexual or both, were known. Amon 
* the material which I have available for the work on the Flora of 
more slender open panicles to 3 in. long and the drupe is 
transversely oblong, depressed at the apex and with a quite thin 
pericarp. In my opinion, Dalzell’s plant, of which there is a con- 
siderable amount of material from the Bombay and Madras 
forests of the Western Ghats, is distinct from V. Colebrookiana, 
transversely oblong vertically more drupe 
thin pericarp. It is quite unlike Wight’s plant and is distinct, 
i inion, from it. It differs less, perhaps, from 4 Dal- 
zellii, but the thin narrow leaves, nearly glabrous inflorescence, 
and striate fruit separate it, and I propose to eall it N. Bed- 
domei. : d : 
In the Flora of British India, a second variety of N. Cole- 
ir Joseph Hooker, based on Wail. 
Cat. 8500 and called var. Heyneana. It is a plant with small 
narrow obt 
contains a large number ens W i 
Wall. Cat. 8500, their leaves varying in length from 1} to 6 in. 
and in breadth from } to 2 in., t E 
praito(i ature only) ovoid apiculate. This can be, I think, 
the fruit ee 
quite safely regarded as a species, N. Heyneana. 
