1897.] D. Prain — Some additional Leguminosse. 483 



9. Sindora Galedupa Prain. Caju Galedupa Bumph. in Herb. 

 Amboin. ii. 59, t. 13. Galedupa indica Lamk. Encyc. Meth. ii. 594 (as 

 to the citation Galedupa but excluding the plant described.) S. sumatrana 

 var. javanica Eoord. 8f Vol. Bijdr. ii. 45 (possibly). 



Malayan Archipelago. 



This species agrees with the preceding in number of leaflets and style of leaves 

 as well as in having pods that are unarmed. It has smaller pods than any of the 

 other species except 8. sumatrana, from which it differs only in the absence of spines 

 from the pods and in the long axis of the pod not being at right angles to the direc- 

 tion of the stalk. The reference of this plant by some writers to Pongamia glabra, in 

 spite of its equally-pinnate leaves and its arillate funiculus, must be admitted to be 

 incomprehensible. 



The writer has examined a leaf specimen of 8. sumatrana var. javanica Koord. 

 & Val. The 4 pairs of leaflets suggest that it differs from 8. sumatrana ; the leaflets 

 themselves seem to the writer to differ materially from those of 8. sumatrana or 

 indeed of any of the species represented in the Calcutta Herbarium. Neither 

 flowers nor fruits are yet reported but it is highly probable that Messrs. Koorders 

 and Valeton's plant either is an undescribed species, or — what would be even more 

 interesting— is the long-lost Galedupa of Rumphius ; the fact that its leaflets are in 

 4 pairs largely helps to strengthen the latter suggestion. 



106. DIALIUM Linn. 



1. DiALIUM OVOIDEDM Thw. 



Add to localities of F. B. I. : — Travancore ? ; Lawson ! 



The specimens from Travancore seen by the writer consist of fruits only, and it 

 is not absolutely certain that they belong to this species because they are decidedly 

 gibbous at the base which those of the Ceylon plant at Calcutta are not. At the 

 same time they much more closely resemble the fruits of D. ovoideum than they do 

 those of D. indum, the true Malayan Krangi. They may possibly prove to belong to 

 a lost species, Dialium coromandelianum Houtt., and it is to be hoped that members 

 of the Society in Southern India will help to clear up the difficulty. 



16. Dialium indum Linn. Mantiss. i. 24 ; leaflets 5-9, all cuneate 

 at the base, branches of the panicle ascending, pedicels shorter than 

 the calyx, pod not velvety. Benn. PI. Jav. Rar. 136, t. 30 ; Miq. Flor* 

 Ind. Bat. i. 79 ; Prain, Joum. As. Soc. Beng. lxvi. 2. 169. 



Pahang ; Pijai, Ridley 2627 ! Penang ; Ayer Etam, Curtis ! Distrib. 

 Malay Archipelago. 



A tree 60-70 feet high, leaflets alternate, chartaceous, glabrous on both surfaces, 

 finely reticulately-veined, 3-4 in. long, 1-1*5 in. wide, gradually narrowed from the 

 middle to apex, base more abruptly cuneate. Panicle ample with slender finely grey- 

 downy branches. Buds elliptic. Sepals ovate-obtuse, thinly grey-downy, "1 in. long. 

 Filament much shorter than anther. Pod suborbicular slightly compressed, *9 in. 

 across, dark-purple not velvety. 



This is the earliest reported Asiatic species of the genus, and it has become usual 

 to assign to it in particular the Malay name Kranji, first made known to us by Bontius. 

 As a matter of fact, however, the name Kranji appears to be generic in its significance, 



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