1897.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 241 



narrow. Pod (including stalk 2-5 in. long) 18-20 in. long, 2-25 in. 

 wide, '3 in. thick, black, glabrous. Seeds 12-18, oblong-oval, - 9 in. long, 

 '6 in. wide, *25 in. thick, dark-brown and smooth throughout. Hassk. 

 Gat. Hort. Bog. 289 ; PL Jav. Rar. 414 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, 53. P. 

 macrocarpa Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 281. Acacia graveolens Jack, 

 Mai. Misc. II, 78. The Pete or Pethek. 



Penang ; on the coast, cultivated, Curtis! Prov. Welleslet; 

 Kunstler 1657 ! Perak ; Thaiping, Scortechini 504 ! Larut, in dense jungle 

 from 500-2000 feet elev., local, Kunstler 5300 ! Distrib. Sumatra ; 

 Java, (cult. Hasslcarl !). 



It would appear that this is the only species of ParMa truly wild in our area. 

 It has been identified by Father Scortechini with P. macrocarpa Miq., from 

 Sumatra, of which there is no authentic specimen at Calcutta; it certainly accords 

 admirably with Miquel's description. There is at Calcutta an authentic example 

 of Hasskarl's P. speciosa ; it proves that the present species is no other than 

 HasskaiTs plant, and as Hasskarl's name has nearly twenty years' priority it is here 

 adopted. In the Index Kewensis it is suggested that both P. intermedia and P. 

 speciosa may be forms of P. Boxburghii. To judge by Hasskarl's description this 

 may be true of P. intermedia ; as regards P. speciosa the suggestion is obviously 

 an impossible one. 



While however, Hasskarl's name P. speciosa is long anterior to Miquel's, it does 

 not conserve the oldest specific name. This tree is, as Hasskarl expressly admits, 

 (Neuer Schluess. 50) the Pete of Rumphius (Herb. Amb. Ill, 51) ; it is equally the 

 Petek of Jack, to which Jack has given the name Acacia graveolens. The writer 

 does not propose, in the modern manner, to suggest that P. speciosa should there- 

 fore be known as Parkia graveolens, though doabtless there are those who will seize 

 the opportunity of applying this name and of posing as authorities for the species. 



It is strange that though evidently wild so near as in Sumatra and in the Malay 

 Peninsula, this species is only cultivated in Java, and that there, according to 

 Koorders and Valeton, its native country is unknown. These authors indeed 

 (Bijdr. I, 268) suggest that it is a native of British India. It certainly is not a 

 native of India proper; it is not even cultivated there. Our Indian species are, 

 P. Roxburg hii (P. biglobosa), wild in Silhet, Cachar and Chittagong ; P. leiophylla, 

 wild in Pegu ; and P. insignis, wild in Martaban. We in India also experience a 

 difficulty like that experienced by our Dutch colleagues, since there is a species P. 

 biglandulosa, cultivated in India from Madras to Assam, of whose natural habitat 

 we are somewhat uncertain. 



59. Entada Adans. 



Woody unarmed climbers, with tendrils. Leaves bipinnate. Flowers 

 in long narrow spikes, minute, yellowish, polygamous. Calyx minute, 

 campanulate, equally 5-toothed. Corolla oblong in bud, the 5 long 

 equal narrow lobes falcate in expansion. Stamens 10, free, shortly 

 exserted, filaments filiform ; anthers crowned with a gland. Ovary 

 subsessile, many-ovuled ; style filiform, stigma concave terminal. Pod 

 flat woody, very large, composed of many discoid one-seeded joints, 

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