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Dr. Falconer and by Mr. Stoliczka ; more recently it has been reported abundantly by 

 Dr. King's plant collectors from the Andaman group. 



Mr. Baker finds that Wall. Cat. 5907 from Burma, as represented in Herb. Kew, 

 is the same as Wall. Cat. 5443. He also is of opinion that Wall. Cat. 5908 may like- 

 wise be the same species. The latter is not represented in Herb. Calcutta, but in the 

 Calcutta collection Wall. Cat. 5907 is the very distinct species here described as 

 Spatholobus roseus. Mr. Baker adds that Wall. Cat. 9054 from Penang, which is also 

 absent from the Calcutta collection, most probably belongs here, and on the strength 

 of this probability gives Penang as a locality for the species; one objection to this 

 is that, in another place, the F. B. I. identifies Wall. Cat. 9054 with Derris thyrsiflora. 

 There is at Calcutta, however, an example of Wall. Cat. 8082, issued by Dr. Wallich 

 as a Sapindaceous plant, that certainly is a Spatholobus and possibly belongs to this 

 species. But it is strange that no one has collected the plant in Penang since 

 Dr. Wallich's time. 



S. purpureus Benth., referred to under 8. acuminatus is, as Mr. Baker suspects, 

 very distinct. Its fruits have recently been reported by Mr. Talbot. 



Mr. Kurz refused to accept, in his Contributions to the botany of Burma, the 

 genus Spatholobus as distinct from Butea ; in this there is no doubt that Mr. Kurz 

 was wrong. Moreover, in enumerating Butea acuminata he attributes to it " white " 

 flowers, whereas Mr. Baker describes them as being bright-red. Most unfortunately 

 no one has ever recorded the colour of the flowers of true S. acuminatus, but in any 

 case, on consulting Mr. Kurz's specimens, it is found that he never himself collected 

 either the true S. acuminatus or the true S. roseus, and that the specimens on which 

 his S. acuminatus is based belong to the two different species here termed S. squamiger 

 and S. riparius, which are quite distinct from each other and equally distinct both 

 from Wallich's original Butea acuminata and Graham's Pongamia rosea. 



Mr. C. B. Clarke collected in the Khasia Hills in 1871 a plant (Clarice n. 14981) 

 that must be nearly related to S. acuminatus. Yet to the writer it hardly seems to be 

 that species ; its leaflets have longer caudate tips, its stipels are longer, its stipules 

 are different and it is especially unlike S. acuminatus in having the twigs hirsute with 

 spreading hairs. As yet this form has not been met with by any other botanist and 

 there are neither flowers nor fruits at Calcutta. 



36. Spatholobus purpureus Benth. ex Bah. in Flor. Brit. Ind. ii. 

 194 ; leaflets coriaceous, oblong, shortly bluntly cuspidate, rounded at 

 base, the lateral pair obliquely, flowers small, calyx puberulous, teeth 

 oblong-obtuse half as long as tube ; pod sessile not much narrowed to 

 the thick tip ; wing shining glabrous. 



W. India ; Canara, Stocks ! Talbot n. 1630 ! 



A lofty climber with glabrous branches. Petiole 1-3 in. long, leaflets dark-green 

 glabrous, shining on both surfaces, end-leaflets 3*5 in. long. Panicles short, 3-6 

 in. long, dense ; pedicels equalling calyx. Calyx '1 in. Corolla dark-purple, much 

 exserted. Pod 4 in. long, "7 in. across below, "6 in. across at thickened apex, quite 

 glabrous. 



Recently specimens of this, in fruit, have been collected by Mr. Talbot at Digghi 

 Ghaut ; these show that the species is a very distinct one. 



3c. Spatholobus squamiger Prain; leaflets membranous ovate- 

 acute tip mucronulatc, base wide-cuneatc, panicles longer than leaves, 



