1876.] S. Kurz — A Sketch of the Vegetation of the Nicobar Islands. 119 



Jelinek 39 — eheang or pi-gang, inc.) ; puyan, inc. Hatch. — Mr. Jelinek re- 

 marks that the Nicobarese build their canoes of this tree.* 



32. Calophyllttm spectabile, Willd. — Not unfrequent in the 

 tropical forests of Kamorta. 



33. Calophyllttm Wallichianum, Planch, and Trian. — Not rare 

 in the tropical forests of Kamorta. 



TEBNSTR (EMIAQJ3M. 



34. Tebnstrcemia Penan gi ana, Chois. — Not unfrequent in th e 

 tropical-forests of Kamorta. A tree 70 to 80 feet high, of which I once 

 met with a stunted individual in the grass-heaths. 



N. B. Gordonia excelsa, Dyer in Hf. Ind. PI. I. 291 (not of Blume) 

 var. a. pubescens, Dyer, 1. c, = G. dipterosperma (LipterospermcB sp. 

 Griff. Not. IV. 564). Blume's tree differs so much from the above in the long 

 peduncles, large hirsute capsules, and in the texture and pubescence of the 

 leaves, that it is difficult to understand how it could have come to be identified 

 with the Khasi and Sikkim tree. G. Singaporeana, Wall., = G. anomala, 

 Spreng. Syst. III. 126 ; Hf. Ind. PI. 1. c. 292 (Camellia axillaris, Boxb. 

 in Bot. Beg. 349). This species again is certainly different from Blume's G. 

 excelsa, and greatly resembles Laplacea integerrima, Miq. It occurs also 

 in Penang, where the late Dr. Stoliczka collected it. Dyer seems not to 

 have read the description in the Bot. Begister, but to have relied solely upon 

 the reduced figure when he recognised in it a S. China species. G. Maingagi, 

 Dyer, is the same as Miquel's Laplacea subintegerrima, which again hardly 

 differs from L. aromatica. As Mi quel has already pointed out, the distinguish- 

 ing characters of Gordonia and Laplacea are not reliable, and in LJurga, for 

 for example, the free or united styles are not even regarded as of specific value. 

 Kadsura pubescens, Miq., is a very distinct species of Actinidia, allied to 

 A. callosa, L. Lilleniacea ? nervosa, Wall. Cat. 6635, from Singapore, = 

 Shorea sublacunosa, Scheff. ; Shorea macroptera, Dyer, = Sh. lepidota, Bl. j 

 Hopea micrantha, Hf. = H. Mengarawan, Miq. 



MALVAOLJ^!. 



35. Slda caepltstieolia, L., var. acuta (S. acuta, Burm.). — A com- 

 mon weed in the beach-forests and in cultivated spots. (Novara 160 ; 

 Jelinek) . 



N. B. Sida amoena, Wall. Cat. 1848 from Ava, which Masters doubt- 

 fully refers to Abutilon fruticosum, Guill. and Perr., has 12 carpels and is 

 simply a small form of A. Indicum, Don. 



* I doubt this, for the Nicoharese cut the trees for their canoes far in the interior, 

 while Galoph. Inophyttum is a shore tree. The timber of their boats more resembles 

 that of Artocarpus. 



