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This species has been somewhat troublesome to deal with. One of us, in working 
through the material of Anacardiaceae in the Calcutta herbarium, had in 1895 to remove 
from the genus С the specimens on which the late Mr. Kurz based his proposed 
species Gluta longepetiolata, Examining them together we recognised that they were 
undoubtedly conspecific with a tree of which the other had personally collected speci- 
mens in the island of Narcondam, and recognising it as a JSiderozylon, had tentatively 
included in his Narcondam list under S. ferrrgineum, a species that also occurs іп 
Narcondam. Of the same tree there are several examples under cultivation in the Calcutta 
Garden, raised from seed received from Mr. E. Н. Man, crr, of Port Blair. 
Before formally announcing the reduction of Mr. Kurz’s species it seemed to us 
better to wait till tke frees at Calcutta had flowered and fruited. This has now 
occurred and the drawings given in PLATE 63 have been made from living trees in 
Hort. Calcutta. 
The species is very nearly related to Sideroxzyion nitidum ВІ, of which large suites 
of specimens have recently been recetved from Java through the kindness of Dr. Treub 
and Mr. Koorders. Тһе leaves of cur tree are, however, thinner as well as larger than 
those of S. лишит; its flowers are rather, and its fruits much, larger. 
In the Flora of British India, iii, 542. and in the Journal cf the Asiatic Society of 
Bengal, xlvi. 2. 230, reference is made to a specimen collected by Falconer in the 
Mittikit Forest, Martaban, which is said to be nearly allied to Palaguium polyanthum 
(Isonandra or Dichopsis polyantha of the works quoted). Faleoner’s specimen does not, 
however, belong to any Palaquium but to the species now described, 
Prate 63.—-Sideroxylon  longepetiolstum King $ Prain. 1, flowering branch; 2, fruiting 
branch ; 3, flower,—of natural size; 4, bud, seen from side; 5, bud, from above; 6, calyx, laid open ; 
7, the same, in section, to show aestivation; 8, corolla, laid open, showing insertion of stamens and 
staminodes; 9, stamens; 10, ovary, the calyx removed; 11, very young ovary, showing relation to 
enlarged annular torus ; 12, vertical section of flower; 13, transverse section of ovary,—a/] enlarged ; 
14, fruit with single seed; 15, fruit with two seeds; 16, seed; 17, seed, cut transversely,—a// of 
natural size. 
Q: №: БР; 
PLATE 64. 
66. Hoya oBRENIFORMIS King Mss. in Herb. Calcutta. 
Natural order Asclepiadacez. 
A herb with slender, minutely puberulous, creeping and rooting stem and pendulous 
branches; leaves obcordate or obreniform, sometimes broader than long, lobes rounded, 
sinus acute, base rounded or subacute, rather thin, opaque, nerves obscurely reticulate, 
faintly visible above not evident beneath, bright-green above, paler beneath; length 
1:25—2°5 cm., width 2°25—2°5 em. ; flowers 15—20, in rather loose umbels on peduncles 
puberulous like the stems, 3°5—6 cm. long, pedicels slender, glabrous; calyz pale-green, 
lobes triangular acute; corolla white, 1 em. wide; lobes triangular obtuse with villous 
margins and upper surface. Н. obcordata Hook. f. in Flor, Brit, Ind, iv. 56 ( whe not 
of Teysm, & Binnend. Cat. Hort. Bog. 385 (1866). 
Ann. Roy. Bor. Gard., Care.. Vor. ІХ. 
