480 D. Prain — Some additional Legummosas. [No. 2, 



have taken the unfortunate, and for them quite unusual, view of supposing that 

 Rumphius had made a mistake as to the number and position of the leaflets in his 

 figure. It has, however, been left to Kuntze (Rev. Gen. PL i. 167) to revert to 

 the error of Lamarck's early work and to propose the use of a part of Rumphius 

 name, not for the tree that Rumphius describes and figures but for one that he has 

 accurately figured and described in another volume under the name Malaparius. 



Miquel in 1860 (Flor. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 286) founded on fruiting specimens]of a 

 species nearly allied to Rumphius' Galedupa the genus Sindora, while Bentham in 1865 

 founded on flowering specimens of a third species the genus Echinocalyx (Gen. PL 

 i. 584) ; Mr. Bentham expressed, however, a presentiment that the two plants 

 Sindora and Echinocalyx might prove congeneric. The discovery of other speci- 

 mens in the Wallichian Herbarium, where they had been treated by Graham as be- 

 longing to Guilandina, completely confirmed Mr. Bentham's surmise that Sindora 

 and Echinocalyx are congeneric and led to his publishing in Hooker's Icones Planta- 

 rum a fuller account (Icones Plantarum xi. 11, t. 1017, 1018 [1867]) of the plants in 

 question. The two plates, however, do not, as Mr. Bentham for the moment believed, 

 represent the flowers and the fruit of one species. Plate 1018, representing the fruit 

 of this composite species, being a figure of Gulandina Wallichiana Grah. can alone 

 therefore be cited as Sindora Wallichii Benth. The plant figured on Plate 1017, 

 being a different species, will have to be cited as Sindora Echinocalyx. 



Mr. Baker has reduced to this already composite species two others that are 

 equally distinct, viz. : — S. siamensis Teysm. and S. intermedia Bak. (as a variety) ; 

 Mr. Baker has also established a valid new species (S. velutina). Still another 

 species, which Mr. Baker seems for the moment to have overlooked, occurs in 

 Cochin-China, while Mr. Baker has himself tentatively referred yet another to the 

 genus Afzelia. 



The only modification that it is necessary to make in Mr. Baker's generic 

 definition is to note that the pod is not necessarily armed with prickles on the face. 



In the Key that follows, the opportunity has been taken of showing the relation- 

 ship to one another of all the known species of Sindora ; to the Key is appended a list 

 of the citations that concern each. In drawing up the Key it has been somewhat 

 difficult to present the species in a natural sequence, owing to the incompleteness 

 of the specimens as regards particular characters. The stipules, for example, in S. 

 velutina are unknown, so is the fruit ; the flowers on the other hand are unknown 

 both in Sindora sumatrana and S. Galedupa. The position of S. velutina in the Key 

 and list may therefore be subject to revision when the missing parts are reported ; 

 the character of presence or absence of prickles on the calyx-lobes cannot be used 

 satisfactorily. 



Key to the known species of Sindora. 



Pod armed on the face with strong straight prickles, 

 (unknown in S. velutina) : — 

 Pods subeqally rounded at base — the stipe and beak at 

 opposite ends of its long axis : — 

 Stipules large foliaceous ... ... ... 1. S. Wallichiana. 



Stipules inconspicuous : — 



Calyx lobes densely echinulate, leaflets small oval, 



obtuse ... ... ... ... 2. S. Echinocalyx. 



