1897.] P. Prain — Some additional Loguminosce. 458 



mistakable description of Pongamia glabra, one of the most familiar of trees to those 

 who have collected on the coasts of Burma, the Andamans, or Malaya. Pterocarpus 

 obtusatus Miq. has no foundation ; it can be manufactured if one is careful to collect 

 only the leaves toward the bases of branches ; and P. Zollingeri Miq. is only P. indicus 

 with its fruits collected at a particular stage of their development. 



P. Wallichii W. & A., reduced to P. indicus by Mr. Bentham and also by Mr. 

 Baker, is based on Wall. Cat. 5843D. which is not represented at Calcutta. There is 

 at Calcutta, however, an example of P. Wallichii, named by Dr. Wight himself, collected 

 in Western India by Stocks. This plant is not P. indicus at all, but comes nearer that 

 variety of P. Marsupium (with less obtuse leaves and a broader pod) approaching 

 P. indicus, which is mentioned by Mr. Bentham in Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. Suppl. 77. 



P. dalbergioides Boxb. (the Andaman red-wood) is strictly confined, in a wild 

 state, to the Andaman Group. It is now, however, frequently planted in India. 



2. Pterocarpus macrocarpus Kurz. 



It must be by a mere lapsus calami that Mr. Kurz has stated in his Forest Flora 

 that this is frequent in Martaban and Tenasserim, for neither he nor any other 

 botanist has repprted it from Tenasserim, and he has himself only once collected 

 the species in Martaban. The tree is very widely distributed in Burma, where 

 it is known as Padouk, a name that has however been applied in Tenasserim to P. 

 indicus also, and by Burmese convicts at Port Blair to the Andaman Bed-wood 

 (P. dalbergioides) as well. The localities, as shown by specimens in Herb. Calcutta, 

 are as follows : — 



Martaban; Kurz! Pegu; Tonkyeghat, Kurz I Eyre! Brandis ! Sir D. 

 Brandis' specimens has been named P. indicus by Mr. Kurz and form the basis of 

 his remark (For. Flora Brit. Burm. i. 349) that P. indicus occurs in Pegu). Upper 

 Burma ; Karen Hills, Brandis 1159 ! Shan Hills, King's Collectors ! at Kyoukse, 

 Kyoukmyoung and elsewhere, common, King's Collectors ! Chin Hills, King's 

 Collectors ! 



4. Pterocarpus Marsupium Boxb. 



Var. typica, leaflets oblong-obtuse. P. Marsupium Boxb. Cor. PL 

 ii. t. 116. 



Southern India and Ceylon. 



Var. acuminata ; leaflets ovate cuspidate-acuminate, pods much 

 larger than in type. P. Wallichii W. 8f A. Prodr. 267 ? 



Behar ; Rajmahal Hills near Sahibganj, Kurz ! Deccan ; Naudoshi, 

 Tilah ! Rajputana ; Abu, Stocks n. 237 ! Concan ; Gujeh jungles, 

 Bitchie ! Canara, Yellapur, Talbot ! 



The flowers of this variety are not distinguishable from those of P. Marsupium, 

 the pod however is somewhat different and most probably the plant is quite worthy 

 of specific rank. It is often issued from herbaria as P. indicui which it does not, 

 either as to the flowers, fruit, or texture of leaves, in the least resemble. Without 

 having an opportunity of examining Wall. Cat. 5843D, on which " P. Wallichii " 

 is based, the writer cannot venture to say if Stocks' plant, so named by Wight, be 

 the same. For this reason the name " acuminata " rather than the name 

 " Wallichii " has, for the present, been given to the variety. 



Pterocarpus floribundus Wall. Cat. 5846, a species to which neither Mr. Bentham 

 nor Mr. Baker allude, is a Dems (§ Aganope). 



