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IK. Jlavescens as revised in Hf. Ind. Fl. is a mixture of species, but it 

 is impossible to clear up the synonymy so long as the numbers of distribut- 

 ed collections are not given. No one would wish the numbers of all collec- 

 tions extant or references to common and well-known species, but in the 

 case of new or critical species such might reasonably be looked for. 

 K. angustifoUum, Wight 111. 50 t. 23, with simple or almost simple 

 subaxillary racemes and a villous stalked ovary, is certainly not identical 

 with Roxburgh's plant ; besides, it is a small tree or rather shrub, while 

 the latter is a timber-tree. 



3. X. EGLANDULOSUM, Griff. Not. Dicot. 537 t. 598 f. 4. (X Griffi- 

 tUi, Hf. Ind. n. I. 210.) 



Hab. Tenasserim, Mergui (Griff. ; Helf). 



The leaves are described as very coriaceous just as those of X. insignis 

 (to which I doubtfully refer Maingay's plant No. 348 distributed as Garapa 

 sp.) ; if this be really so, I fear that I have not seen the true species, for in 

 my specimens they are hardly more coriaceous than those of X. jlavescens. 

 The Andaman specimens in leaf only, wrongly named by me X. glaucum^ 

 would probably come here or be referable to X. virens. 



4. X. GLAUCUM, Wall. Cat. 4199 ; Hf. Ind. Fl. I. 209. 



Hab. Common in the swamp-forests and around inundated jungle- 

 swamps of the alluvial plains and base of hills of Pegu and Martaban ; also 

 Tenasserim. Fl. March, Apr. 



5. X. ArriNE, Bennet in Hf. Ind. Fl. I. 209, vix Korth. 

 Hab. Tenasserim, Mergui. 



Wall. Cat. 4198 is cited for this species, but the specimens B from 

 Tenasserim as far as seen by me have a sessile ovary and are referred by me 

 to X. Jlavescens, while A. from Penang is here understood to be the above 

 plant. 



CAB TOFHTLLEM. 

 Conspectus of genera. 

 Trih. I SILjENjEjE. Calyx gamosepalous, 4- to 5-lobed. Petals and stamens liypogy- 

 nous, often raised on a stalk-like torus. Styles distinct from the base. Stipules none. 



1. Gypsophila. Calyx turbinate-tubular or bell-shaped, broadly and almost 

 wingedly 5-nerved. Capsule deeply 4-valved. Styles usually 2. 



Trib. II. ALSINE2E. Sepals free. Stamens inserted on an annular disk, rarely perigy- 

 nous. Styles free. 



2. Brachystemma. Petals entire. Capsules depressed, 1-seeded. Styles 2. 

 Stipviles none. 



Trib. III. POLYCAHPUjE. Sepals free. Stamens inserted on an annular disk. Styles 

 united Stipules scarious. 



3. Deymaeia. Petals lobed. Sepals not keeled. Style very short. 



4. Polycaepon. Sepals keeled. Petals entire. Style short. 



5. PoLYCARPiEA. Scpals not keeled, scarious. Petals entire or notched. Style 

 elongate. 



