Ixom.~\ Lxxv. N rojr>iACE^. (J. D. Hooker.) 



} 7 districts of W. BENGAL, BEHAR, and the WESTERN PENINSULA, from the 

 Satpura range southwards. CHITTAGONG, C. B. Clarke. PEGU, Kurz. CEYLON; 

 hot drier parts of the island. 



An evergreen tree. Leaves 3-6 by l-2- in., very coriaceous, pale when dry; 

 nerves slender, rather stronger than the reticulate venules; petiole very stout; 

 stipules short, cusps short. Cymes 2-6 in., inarticulate, internodes shorter than in 

 /. brachiafa, and branches much shorter; lower bracts stipuliform, upper and brac- 

 teoles minute or obsolete ; flowers -white, odorous, sessile or pedicelled. Filaments 

 short. Style very pubescent; stigma subcapitate, simple or cleft. Fruit small, 

 didymous. Seeds plano-convex. I have, seen no Pegu specimens. Touch-wood. 



? VAR. seylanica ; loaves longer petioled broadly elliptic or obovato acute or 

 acuminate cuneate at the base more membranous less reticulate, stipules with longer 

 cusps, cyme-branches longer. I. jucunda, var. 7, an species distincta? Thwaites 

 Enum. 155. Ceylon, Walker, &c. This is certainly very near indeed to l.parviflora, 

 agreeing entirely even to the pubescent style and the anthers and form of seed, as far 

 as I can ascertain from imperfect fruits, and differs from I. jvcunda widely in the 

 cymes, length of the corolla, and form of its lobes. 



19. I. grandifolia, Zott. fy Morr. Syst. Verz. 65; glabrous or the cymes 

 puberulous, leaves often very large petioled elliptic ovate oblong or lanceolate 

 obtuse or acute, stipules large with a long cusp or the upper 2-fid, cymes 

 sessile brachiate or corymbiforni ramifications inarticulate, branches more or 

 less stout, bracts and bracteoles obsolete,- flowers pedicelled, filaments subulate, 

 anthers very slender, calyx-lobes small triangular or obtuse, con 

 tube 4-1 A in., lobes oblong- obtuse, mouth naked. I. elliptic*, fir. m 

 6153. 



ANDAMAN and NICOBAR ISLANDS to SINOATOB^", MALACCA, and 

 &c. DISTBIB. Malay Archipelago (all the forms). 



I am quite unable to distinguish specifically various, of the very dissimilar forms 

 that occur in the localities specified; all have pedicelled white or pale pink flowers, 

 fruit the size of a large or small pea, and their seeds are very concave ventr-ally. The 

 principal are : 



VAR. coriacea, Br. in Wall. Cat. 6151 (sp.) ; I. macrosiphon, Kurz in Trimcx. 

 Journ. Sot. 1875, 327 ; For. Fl. ii. 24 ; branches very stout with whitish b;i|k, leaves- 

 12-18 by 4-5 in. elliptic base acute obtuse or rounded, petiole very robust, cymes with 

 very thick suberect flowering branches spreading in fruit, corolla-tube ^ in. Penang, 

 Wallich. Griffith's specimens from .Malacca (Kew Distrib. 2999) have narrower 

 lanceolate bases and shorter petioles, and the cymes reduced to a fascicle of thick 

 primary branches starting from the end of the branch. . Kurz's from S. Andaman' 

 have dark leaves 12-14 by 4^-5 in., with rounded bases, almost black, and similar 

 cymes. Pavetta macrophylla, Blume, appears a large -flowered form of this, as is pro- 

 bably P. Teysmanniana and P. macrocoma of Miquel. 



VAR. arborescens, Hassk. (sp.) in Eetzia, i. 22 ; branches more slender usually 

 with white bark, leaves 4-10 by 2-3 in., usually more membranous, rachis of cyme 

 elongate, branches horizontal, flowers looser, corolla-tube ^ in. Penang and Malacca, 

 Griffith (Kew Distrib. 2987). 



VAR. Kurzeana, Teysm. & Binnend. (sp.) in Nat. Tijdsch. Ned. Ind. xxvii. 100, ex 

 Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1876, ii. 134; leaves lanceolate thin narrowed into a stout 

 petiole, cymes corymbiforni, corolla 1-1^ in. Nicobar Islands, Kurz. 



VAR. rosella, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 23 (sp.); leaves 6-8 by 3|-4| in. thin elliptic- 

 oblong or obovate acute or acuminate margins often undulate, nerves nearly hori- 

 zontal, petiole -1 in., cymes corymbiform, corolla -f in. South Andaman Islands, 

 KiLrz. - , 



20. I. brunnescens, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1872, ii. 317 ; For. Fl. ii.. 

 24; glabrous, leaves sessile or subsessile broadly oboyate obtuse on tip rounded 

 opaque, base rounded or cordate, nerves very faint horizontal, cymes small 



