1897.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 209 



cription includes this sea-coast species, it also includes one, if not more than one, 

 inland species of far greater dimensions than this littoral tree ever attains. 

 Roxburgh's Jonesia triandra is not a Saraca but is this species. 



3. Afzelia palembanica Bak. in Flor. Brifc. Ind. II, 275. A tall eroct 

 tree 100-150 feet high, stem 2—3 feet in diam. Leaves even-pinnate 6-8 

 in. long; leaflets nsnally 4- (very rarely only 3- , more often 5-) paired, 

 sometimes only subopposite, subcoriaceowp. glabrons on both surfaces, 

 oblong, base slightly oblique, rounded or subcordate, apex obtuse or blunt- 

 isli- acuminate emnrginate, 2—4 in. long, 15-2 in. wide, nerves numerous 

 fine spreading reticulate, petiolules distinct "15 in, long, glabrous as 

 is the racbis. Flowers in leaf-opposed or terminal corymbose pubes- 

 cent panicles of few-flowered racemes, 3*5 in. long, 25 in. across, the 

 individual racemes 1 in. long; pedicels slender, pubescent, '15-2 in. 

 long, jointed 2-bracteolate under the calyx, bracteoles ovate, pubescent, 

 *2 in. long, bracts small ovate, *15 in. long, caducous. Calyx downy, 

 tube cylindiic *2 in. long, shorter than limb with 4 subequal oblong 

 spreading lobes '25 in. long, *2 in. wide. Petal *35 in. long, limb oblong 

 *25 in. long, "2 in. wide, margin uniform, claw 1 in. long, glabrous. 

 Stamens 3 fertile, filaments '75 in., sparsely pubescent, dark-claret 

 coloured, two sterile filaments at base of petal. Ovary stalked, pubes- 

 cent, exserted ; style glabrous, slender, *75 in. long. Pod 10-12 in. long, 

 3*5 in. wide, oblong, almost woody. Seeds wide-oblong, 1'25 in. long, 

 1 in. wide, 3 in. thick. A. bijuga Kurz, For. Flor. But. Burm. I, 412 

 not of Gray. 



Andamans ; South Point, Kurz ! Perak ; Wray ! Kunstler 4433 ! 

 7387 ! Scortechini 1839 ! Malacca ; Griffith ! Maingay 565 ! Cantley 

 1670! Holmberg 776! Distrib. Siam (Teysmann /). 



This is, according to Maingay, "the best Malacca timber tree ; " according to 

 Scortechini it affords "the best timber in the Peninsula." The Malay name, ac- 

 cording to Scortechini, is Mirbau in Perak ; Holmberg gives this as the Malacca 

 name also. In Penang however, according to Curtis, the name Mirbau is used for 

 Sindora coriacea. 



While this species is Afzelia palembanica Bak., it certainly is not Intsia palem- 

 banica Miq., of which one of the original types is in Herb. Calcutta. That tree, as 

 Miquel says, has ovate-lanceolate leaflets (3 in. long by 125 in. wide, tapering to 

 an acute point), it has also large ovate persistent bracts, '3 in. across. It does not 

 seem necessary to alter the name in this place, but in a monograph of Afzelia it 

 will be necessary to term the Peninsular species Afzelia Baheri. 



Mr. Baker has pointed out incidentally an omission in Mr. Kurz's Forest Flora of 

 Brit. Burma : Kurz himself collected this species in the Andamans ; strangely no one 

 has met with it there again. He has, however, united it with A. bijuga and it is this 

 union that explains Mr. Kurz's double error of attributing to A bijuga pods a foot 

 long and leaves with more than 4 leaflets. 



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