484 D. Prain — Some additional Leguniinosae. [No. 2, 



and to be applied to most, if not all the Malayan species of Dialium. Thus while, 

 according to Bontius and Rheede, the name Kranji signifies D. indum, the field notes 

 on specimens in Herb. Calcutta show that it may be applied to D. laurinum (Ridley 

 6437) to a form of D. platysepalum (Holmberg 821) to D. Maingayi (Curtis 440) and 

 to what seems to be a form of D. ambiguum from Malacca (Derry 510 of 1892).* 



According to Mr. Baker D. indum was not knoWn from the Malay Peninsula up 

 to 1878. Perhaps Mr. Ridley's Pahang specimens are from wild trees, his field-notes 

 and his references in the account of the Flora of Pahang, (Trans. Linn. Soc. n. s. vol. 

 iii) do not make the point clear. Mr. Curtis' Penang ones are pretty evidently from 

 an introduced tree since they are noted as being from " Ayer Etam in Miller's com- 

 pound " and since he gives besides two alternative Malay names, Krangi Burong and 

 Kranji Padie. The latter term is not used for any other specimen at Calcutta, but 

 the name Kranji Burong accompanies a Malacca form of D. platysepalum (Holmberg 

 855) with clavate pods. Another specimen for which alternative names are given is 

 one of D. Maingayi (Goodenough 1533) from Malacca, which is cited as Kranji ambot 

 or Kranji s'hellat. No other specimen has the name Kranji ambot but the name 

 Kranji s'Jcellat is used (Derry 89 ; Goodenough 1693) for two Malacca gatherings of 

 the round-fruited form of D. platysepalum with somewhat congested panicles. The 

 name Kranji papan is used (Goodenough 1321) for D. laurinum but this name is also 

 twice employed by the same collector (Goodenough 1225 ; 1553) for that form of 

 the totally dissimilar D. platysepalum that has rather flattened pods. 



It has been occasionally said that Malay native names are more exactly applied 

 than is usual in India. The above will perhaps show that even within the limits 

 of so marked a group of species as the various Kranji trees, the incidence of Malay 

 names may be as vague and as unreliable as the incidence of Hindi names can be. 



\c. Dialium Kunstleri Prain, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. lxvi. 2. 168 ; 

 leaflets 3-5, cuneate at base, pod very large umbonate at tip. 



Perak ; Goping, Kunstler 4415 ! 

 A tree 100-130 feet high. Leaflets alternate or subopposite, ovate-lanceolate 

 narrowly acuminate, apex entire, base cuneate, 4-5 in. long, 1*25-1 '5 in. broad, coria- 

 ceous, rather dark-green shining above, dull and pale-green beneath, glabrous on 

 both surfaces ; petiolules short. Panicles terminal and axillary, 4 in. long. Pod 

 subspherical, hardly compressed, oblique, prominently umbonate at tip, firm, 1*5 in. 

 long, 1*35 in. wide, black. Seed solitary, subrotund, smooth, dark-brown, dull, *6 in. 

 long, *5 in. wide, *2 in. thick. Flowers not seen. 



2. Dialium Maingayi Bak. 



Add to localities of F. B. I. :— Perak ; Scortechini 2052! Wray 

 3407 ! 3767 ! Penang ; Curtis 440 ! 3031 ! Malacca ; Goodenough 1533 ! 



3. Dialium laurinum Bak. 



Add to localities of F. B. I. : — Singapore ; Krangi, Ridley 6437 ! 

 Pahang ; Ridley. 



4. Dialium patens Bak. 



Add to localities of F. B. I. : — Perak ; Larut, Kunstler 5551 ! 

 5577 ! Distrib. Borneo. 



* Derry 510 of 1890 is not the same plant ; it is undoubtedly a form of D. 

 'platysepalum ; it bears the native name Sepan, not Kranji. This is an excellent 

 instance of the undesirability of giving the same number to two different gatherings. 



