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identification with the Spondias as impossible as its identification with the Melie. 
What tbis large tree, represented by Gamble’s n. 2412, may be, is as yet not 
certainly known, though in the Darjeeling List, Ed. 2, 16 (1896) it is termed 
Melia dubia. Another tree, which he terms JLapshi, Gamble. treats tentatively in 
his first Darjeeling List as a variety of Fún; in his Manual of Indian Timbers, 
78, where he terms it JLabshi, this is the only  Labsh; that he recognises. This 
second .Labshi constitutes, moreover, Labshi as it is usually understood by the natives 
of Sikkim and British Bhutan. In the second edition of the Darjeeling List this is, 
at p. 17, very. justly removed from Cedrela Toona апа C. mi:rocarpa; as the list 
passed through the press it was added again under Spondias, though by a typogra- 
phieal error the name is given as S. azuminaía instead of 5. azillaris. 
As regards the generic position of Roxburgh’s plant there is no doubt possible. 
It belongs to Commerson's genus Poupartia, which is merged in Spondias by Bentham 
and Hooker in Genera Plantarum, i. 426, but which Engler in DC. Mon. Phaner. 
has, in our opinion and in that of Hemsley (Zones Plantarum +. 2557), justly restored. 
If the view which we, in common with these distinguished botanists, hold, be correct, 
the true name for this Roxburghian species is therefore Poupartia avillaris. Our 
present purpose being, however, to make botanists fully acquainted with the plant 
of Roxburgh, we have deemed it preferable to publish Roxburgh's own figure 
and give here а full description of the plant under Roxburgh’s own name. I; 
should, however, be added that, so far as can be judged from the excellent figure of 
Poupartia Fordit Hemsl., Icon, Plantar. t. 2557 (1899), there is no character whereby 
that plant, which is a native of Hong-Kong, can be distinguished from the Eastern 
Himalayan Poupartia axillaris, and the suspic:on that the two may be the same is 
greatly strengthened by the fact that the native collectors of the Calcutta Garden 
have recently sent specimens and quantities of seed of the Himalayan tree from the 
intermediate locality of the Kachin Hills, 
Prate 25.—Spondias axillaris orb. 1, branch, with leaves and flowers, from Roxburgh’s 
original drawing; 2, single leaflet from a large tree growing on the ‘Cinchona Plantation at 
Mungpoo, Sikkim; 3, single leaflet, young, froma plant 4 years old in the Calcutta Garden, raised 
from seed yielded by the tree bearing the leaflet of fig. 2; 4, flower, laid open, from Roxburgh’s 
drawing; 5 and 6, ovary, cut transversely and vertically, from Roxburgh’s drawing; 7, fruit; 8, 
the same, cut transversely; 9, seed—from m drawing. Figs. 4, 5, 6 are enlarged, the others are 
of natural size. 
OG RES D. Р. 
PLATE 26. 
90, "TArNIOCHLAENA DIRMANNICA Prain in Journ, As. Soc. Beng, Ixvii, 2, 982 (1898). 
Natural order Соппатасеге, 
A shrub with round, puberulous branchlets and minutely lenticelled bark: leaves 
unequally pinnate, 15—20 еш, long, leaflets 2—3 pairs increasing upwards, the terminal 
the largest 8—19 сш. long, 4 cm. wide, the others 4—7 em. long, all oblong-lanceolate 
