122 G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. ["No. 1, 



the pair at base of calyx oblong ciliate embracing lower half of tube. 

 Calyx *08 in., campanulate, teeth obtuse upper two connate, lower three 

 subeqnal all as long as tube. Corolla white, "15 in. long, claws of petals 

 short. Stamens 10, monadelpbons. Ovary glabrous. Pod turgid 1-3- 

 seeded ; '75-2 in. long, '6 in. wide, when young fnlcate along upper, 

 when ripe convex along both sutures, when 2- or 3-seeded torulose 

 between the seeds. Flor. Ind. Ill, 225; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, 132 ; 

 Beuth. Journ. Linn. Soc. IV, Suppl. 33. D. Gumingiana Benth. PI. 

 Jungh. 255 ; Journ. Linn. Soc. IV, Suppl. 32 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, 

 129. D. Zollinqeriana Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, 130. Drepanocarpus 

 Cnmingii Kurz, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XLV, pt. 2. 282. 



Andamans; Heifer 1808! Dindings ; Gurtis! Pahang ; Ridley 1374 ! 

 2639 ! Perak ; Matang Jambu, Wray 2525 ! Goping, Kunstler 1423 ! 

 5973! 6151 ! Scortechini ! Distrib. Malay Archipelago. 



Regarding this plant Mr. Hemsley has noted : — " This agrees with Kew speci- 

 " mens of D. reniformis Roxb." This species, however, is a climber whereas D. renifor- 

 mis is a tree ; Roxburgh's D. reniformis has moreover much larger flowers and, as 

 in D. Kunstleri, the fruits of D. reniformis remain falcate along the upper suture 

 even when ripe. 



That this is B. parviflora Roxb. hardly admits of a doubt. Mr. Bentham 

 and Mr. Baker have, indeed, suggested that D. parviflora may be the same as D. 

 Junghuhnii ; in spite of the very great authority of these authors this suggestion 

 must be abandoned as untenable. The number and, still more, shape of the 

 leaflets make the identification impossible ; moreover, Roxburgh's account of the pod 

 shows that his species must be, as Miqael admits, a Selenolobium and not as Bentham 

 and Baker suppose, a Sissoa. Roxburgh's description is meagre in the extreme ; 

 but since D. Gumingiana provides a species that exhibits all the characters of D. 

 parviflora and as no other Malayan species of Dalbergia hitherto found does so, it 

 seems imperative to use Roxburgh's name for the species. 



A more interesting question regarding this plant is, however, its supposed 

 identity with Rumphius' L"cca lignum {Herb. Amboin. V, 17. t. 13). So far as 

 Calcutta specimens go the only authority for the belief is the existence of a speci- 

 men from Halmaheira (Teysmann n. 5668) on which Mr. Teysmann has written 

 " Kayoe lakka" and another from Tarabangie, Lam pongs, Sumatra (H ort. Bogor n. 

 444 )) also collected by Mr. Teysmann and also marked " Kayoe lakka." It is re- 

 markable that our other Sumatra specimens, collected on the R. Rawas by Dr. 

 H. 0. Forbes (Forbes n. 3216), have no note to this effect, and just as remarkable 

 that collectors so careful as Mr. Ridley, Fr. Scortechini, Herr Kunstler and Mr. 

 Wray, who have sent us numerous specimens of the same species, should have made 

 no note regarding it. Their silence renders the matter doubtful, and appears to 

 afford good ground for Dr. Kuntze's refusal (Rev. Gen. Plant. I, 158) to accept the 

 identification proposed by Teysmann and adopted by Hasskarl (Neue Schluessel zu 

 Rumph. p. 90). As Kuntze justly remarks, the meagre account of the flower given 

 by Rumphius does not fit the present species since Ramphius says it has two 

 petals, and though the general habit agrees that alone hardly suffices for identifica- 

 tion. The calyx of the only open flower in the figure quite accords with the calyx 



