1876.] S. Kurz — A Sketch of the Vegetation of the Nicobar Islands. 115 



Enumeration of the Plants or the Nicobar Islands. 

 DILLENIA GUM. 



1. Dillenia pilosa, Kurz in Journ. As. Soe. Beng. 1872, 292 and 

 1874, 46, vix Roxburgh. — Not unfrequent in the tropical forests of 

 Kamorta. 



N. B. The leaves of the Nicobar tree are 1 to \\, in saplings up 

 to 2, feet long, more broadly decurrent to the very base, and while young 

 half-stem-clasping. I formerly identified this tree with Roxburgh's, but I 

 now entertain great doubts as to the correctness of my identification, 

 having ascertained that the insular species is a southern form, which is un- 

 likely to extend so far north as Assam. 



ANONAGEJE. 



2. Uvaria micrantha, Hf. and Th. — Not unfrequent in the tropi- 

 cal forests of Kamorta. 



N. B. Uvaria cordata, Wall. Cat. 6486, is still retained as a synonym 

 of U. macrophylla in the Ind. Flora, although Mi quel and I have pointed 

 out that it is the typical Blumean JJ. ovalifolia. Hf. and Th. now refer 

 some Bornean and Phillipine specimens to TT. ovalifolia, Bl. I have not 

 seen the Kew U. ovalifolia. — Goniothalamus Malay anus, Hf. and Th. is 

 certainly identical with G. Sling erlandtii, Scheff. (not G. Stingelandtii as 

 the authors of the Indian Flora call it). — Melodorum prismaticum Hf. 

 and Th. and M. rufum {Pyramidantlie rufa, Miq.) are two very different 

 species ; the former has the leaves and the simply minutely granular carpels 

 quite glabrous, the stalk very short, and the peduncles longer ; while the 

 latter has the leaves more or less tawny pubescent beneath, the carpels 

 strongly rugose-verrucose, minutely tawny puberulous, and the stalk about 

 two-thirds of an inch long. 



3. Unona desmos, Dun. — Katchall (g. c). 



4. Polyalthia iaterielora, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1874, 

 52. — In the forests of the Nicobars (Stoliczka). 



5. P. sp. — Not rare in the tropical forests of Kamorta. It is a 

 small tree, with leaves similar to those of P. Sumatrana but broader and 

 otherwise different. Flowers and fruits unknown. 



6. Popowia parvieolia, Kurz in Trim. Journ. Bot. 1875, 324. — 

 Kamorta, in tropical forests ; also Karnicobar (Novara 153 ; Jelinek 42 — ■ 

 tabeleroi, inc.) and Trice and Track (g. c). 



N. B. The leaves of the Novara specimens are much larger than in 

 mine and the berries 3 — 1-seeded. 



7. Anona muricata, L. — Cultivated near the villages of Kamorta and 

 Nankowry, and probably elsewhere. 



