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Mr. Baker attributes to this, just as Mr. Kurz does to A. bijuga, the occasional 

 presence of 3 pairs of leaflets ; none of the numerous specimens at Calcutta have 

 more than two pairs of leaflets. 



2. Afzelta bijuga A. Gray, Bot. Amer. Explor. Exped. 467, fc. 51. An 

 erect tree reaching 50 feet in height, 1-1*5 feet in diam. Leaves even- 

 pinnate, 3-6 in. long: leaflets 2- (very rarely only 1-) paired sometimes 

 only subopposite, subcoriaceous, glabrous on both surfaces, oblong, base 

 slightly oblique wide-cuneate or rounded, apex obtuse or bluntish acumi- 

 nate emarginate, 2-4 in. long, 1*5-2 in. wide, nerves numerous fine 

 spreading reticulate, petiolules distinct 15 in. long, glabrous as is the 

 rachis. Flowers in leaf-opposed or terminal corymbose pubescent 

 panicles 6 in. long, 4 in. wide, the individual racemes 1*5-2 in. long ; 

 pedicels slender puberulous *6 in. long, jointed, 2-bracteolate under the 

 calyx, bracteoles oblong puberulous '1 in. long, bracts oblong 1 in. long 

 caducous. Calyx puberulous, tube cylindric *3 in. long, rather shorter 

 than limb with 4 subequal oblong spreading lobes '35 in. long, *25 in. 

 wide. Petal '6 in. long, limb *5 in. wide, *35 in. deep, with rounded waved 

 apex and wide cuneate entire base, white or pink, claw very slender, "25 

 in. long ; pubescent along claw and midrib externally. Stamens 3 fertile, 

 filaments 1*25 in., sparsely pubescent, pink. Ovary stalked, pubescent on 

 both sutures, exserted, style glabrous slender, 1*5* in. long. Pod 6-8 in. 

 long, 2*5 in. wide, oblong, rigid, thickly coriaceous. Seeds orbicular 1 in. 

 across, *25 in. thick. Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. II, 274. Intsia amboinensis 

 Thouars Gen. Nov. Madag. 22 ; DC. Prodi*. II, 509 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. 

 I, 80, all in part : Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 288. Baryxylum rufum 

 Lour. Fl. Coch. Chin. 266 in part. Macrolobium bijugum Colebr. in 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. XIT, 359, t. J7. Outea bijuga DC. Prodr. II, 511; 

 Wall. Cat. 5823. Metrosideros amboinensis Rumph. Herb. Amboin. Ill, 

 21 (in part) t. 10. Jonesia triandra Roxb. Flor. Ind. II, 220. 



Andamans ; very common in all the coast forests, Kurz ! Train ! 

 King's Collectors ! Nicobars ; Kamorta, Kurz ! Singapore ; Wallich (Cat. 

 n. 5823 B) ! Ridley ! Distrib. All coasts from Eastern Polynesia to the 

 Mascarene Islands. 



In Mr. Kurz's description of this species occurs the statement that the leaflets 

 may be at times in 3 pairs, and the same variation is indicated in Rumphius' figure 

 quoted above. But the writer finds, as Mr. Baker does, that this species has not 

 more than 4 leaflets. Mr. Kurz's statement is dne to his having treated Andamans 

 specimens of Afzelia <palembanica as representing a form of A. bijuga. 



The synonym Intsia amboinensis only applies to this species in the sense in 

 which it is used by Miquel in his Suppl. : there is an authentic example of the 

 Sumatra plant so named by Miquel in the Calcutta Herbarium ; it is a specimen 

 of Afzelia bijuga. The earlier use of the name mnst be neglected, since it has 

 been made to cover Rumphius' description. For, while it is clear that that des- 



