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There is a large suite of specimens of this species in the Calcutta 

 Herbarium (twelve gatherings from the Andamans alone). 1 have 

 dissected flowers of every oue of these which is in flower, and I find that 

 they all agree perfectly with each other. They also agree absolutely with 

 Heifer's specimen, No. 1131. With the plant collected in Perak by the 

 Bot. Garden Collector (No. 74)42) they also as to flowers and leaves 

 (fruit is absent) agree, except that the Perak plant has slightly larger 

 flowers and that the calyx-lobes are longer and moie acute. Helfei-'s 

 specimen above quoted has, however, been referred by Dr. Engler, in 

 his excellent monograph of the family of Anacardiaceas, to Seme- 

 carjpus albescens, Kurz To that identification I must, with all res- 

 pect, demur. Moreovei- an examination of the large suite of specimens 

 of 6', albescens in the Calcutta Heibarium proves that that plant is 

 not a Semecarpus, but a KulUjarna ; for it has quite the fruits and 

 spurred petioles of the latter genus. Its name ought therefore to be 

 changed to RoUgarna Kurzii ; the specific name albescens being too like 

 albicans which has already been applied to another species. Kurz was 

 rather unfortunate in his treatment of this famil}^ His HoUgarna 

 Grahami was not, as he supposed, the Seynecarpus Grahami of W. and 

 A., which is a plant confined to the West of British India and which . 

 does not extend to Burma. For the Burmese specimens included by 

 Kurz under II. Grahami, Sir Joseph Hooker has substituted the name 

 H. albicans, (Fl. Br. Ind. II, 38.) My own opinion, however, is that 

 these Burmese plants are nothing more or less than H. longifoUa of 

 Roxburgh, of which species that author has left an admirable coloured 

 figure in the Calcutta Herbarium. 



Besides the foregoing there are, in the Calcutta Herbarium, speci- 

 mens from Perak (King's Collector, No. 6623) of a species of Seme- 

 carpus which, except in the finer reticulation of the leaves, agree excel- 

 lently with Beocari's Bornean specimens, No. 2875, and 3318, which have 

 been named S. glauca by Dr. Engler. (DC. Mon. Phan. lY, 478). 



16. Drimycarpds, Hook. f. 



Trees. Leaves alternate, petioled, simple, quite entire. Racemes 

 or panicles axillary. Flowers small, subglobose, polygamous. Calyx 

 superior ; lobes 5, rounded, imbricate. Petals 5, erect, sub-orbicular, 

 imbricate. Disc broad, annular. Stamens 5, inserted at the base of 

 the disc. Ovarz/ in the male flowers 0, in the female inferior, 1-celled; 

 style I, Yev J short ; sHgma capitate ; ovule attached to the wall of the 

 cell. Drupe transversely obliquely ovoid, fibrous, flesh resinous ; stone 

 coriaceous. Seed attached to the wall of the cell, testa membranous ; 

 embryo thick, cotyledons plano-convex; radicle minute, opposite the 

 hilum ; plumule hairy. A single species. 



