412 D. Pr.ain — Some additional LeguminosiS. [No. 2, 



It would, for the purposes of the field-botanist, be better to recognise some 

 of the " varieties " of this species as distinct. The following appears to the writer 

 to be the most satisfactory arrangement. 



a. Galactia tenuiflora W. Sf A. Prodr. 206. 



Var. typica = G. tenuiflora proper in F. B. I. 



Var. minor = var. 2. minor Bak. in F. B. I. (G. tenuiflora var. j3. W. Sf A.) 



b. Galactia longiflora Benth. in Ann. Wien. Mus. ii. (1838) ; Wight, Icones t. 482. 



= var. 1. lucida Bak. in F. B. I. (Glycine lucida Grah.) 

 This is very justly kept up in the Index Keicensis ; by a lapsus unavoidable in 

 a work of such magnitude Glycine lucida, which is the same thing, is referred not 

 to G. longiflora but to G. tenuiflora. The F. B. I. does not quote Wight's figure or 

 refer to his description. 



c. Galactia villosa W. fy A. Prodr. 207. 



Var. typica = var. 3. villosa Bak. in F. B. I. 

 Var. latifolia= var. 4. latifolia Bak. in F. B. I. 

 No diagnostic marks require to be given, as those given by Mr. Baker could 

 hardly be improved on. 



[ 2. Galactia ? oxyphylla Benth. PI. Jungh. 233. Glycine oxyphylla 

 Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5522. Teramnus oxyphylla Kurz in Journ. As. 

 Soc. Beng. xlv. pt. 2. 254. ] 



There is no doubt whatever that this is, as Mr. Kurz says, a Teramnus. It is 

 however only Teramnus flexilis with the rachis of all the racemes unusually short. 

 In pretty well any plant of T. flexilis some of the racemes are to be found abbrevia- 

 ted in this fashion, and by judicious collection both the " species " may be obtained 

 from one plant. In the Index Kewensis, pending further research, both names 

 are quoted. The two are, however, based on the same specimen, and Galactia 

 oxyphylla must be now treated as a synonym of Teramnus flexilis. 



67. SPATHOLOBUS Hassk. 

 1. Spatholobus Roxburghii Benth. 



There are two very distinct forms of this species — one with leaves glabrescent 

 beneath, the other with leaves densely silky beneath. The latter was distinguished 

 as Butea sericophylla by Wallich, and issued under that name as Cat. n. 5541. The 

 specimens obtained along the Sub-Himalayan tracts from Garhwal to Assam, and 

 those from the Chin hills and the Khasia range are of the first form — those of the 

 second form include the specimens from Southern India and those from Tenasserim 

 and Pegu. There is not however a single character of flower or fruit that can be 

 used to separate the forms, and they are not even strictly geographical, for in 1862 

 Dr. T. Anderson collected at 2500 feet elevation in Sikkim an undoubted example of 

 the common S. India form, and on the other hand Mr. Lawson has recently sent 

 to Calcutta one specimen of the North Indian form from Travancore. In Chittagong 

 and Upper Burma the two forms appear to be equally common and to grow side by 

 side. 



The F. B. I. " variety " platycarpa is not confined to the Concan ; specimens with 

 pods as broad as those described have been collected in Central India, in the Sikkim 

 Terai, and in Chittagong, while some of those from Burma have pods 2\-2% in. across. 



