592 House: NOMENCLATURE OF CALONYCTION 
Munda Valli Rheede, Mal. 11: 103. 
Similar to C. aculeatum. The stem not muricate, but covered 
with a thin, whitish, often rough or pubescent bark: peduncles 
and pedicels very stout: leaf-blades ovate, deeply cordate, entire, 
acuminate, of a thick and somewhat coriaceous texture, prominently 
reticulate-veined and slightly pubescent beneath: sepals ovate, 
thick and coriaceous, rounded or blunt at the apex, apparently 
never appendaged: corolla larger than in the preceding species, 
12-18 cm. long, the limb 8-15 cm. broad. 
TYPE LOcALITty: Malabar. 
DistrisuTion: Florida Keys; Bahamas and St. Vincent. 
Also St. Domingo and St. Thomas (fide Choisy). Common in 
the tropics of India and the East Indies. Perhaps introduced 
into America. 
ILLusTRATIONS: Rheede, Mal. 11: pl. 50; Jacq. Hort. 
Vind. 3: pl. 69. 
The following specimens have been examined from North 
America and compared with old world specimens : 
Froripa. Elliotts Key, Syval/ & Nash, Nov. 6 and 7, 1901; 
N. L. Britton 378, 1904. 
BawAmas. South Cat Cay, Millspaugh 2416, 1904. Rum 
Cay, Coker 445, 1903. Salt Cay, New Providence, John I. & Alice 
R. Northrop 244, 1890. 
St. Vincent. H. H. & G. W. Smith, March, 1890. 
A perplexing array of synonymy can be attached to each of 
the above species, but no attempt will be made to assign these 
numerous names at the present time, lest mistakes in so doing 
might be misleading as regards the identity of the two species 
above described. 
NATIONAL MusEuM, WASHINGTON, D. C. 
