208 S. Kurz — Contributions toivards a [No. 4, 



Hab. Common in the open, especially the eng- and hill-eng-forests, 

 but rare in the dry forests, from Prome and Martaban down to Tenasserim, 

 up to 2000 ft. elevation ; also Ava. — Fl. March ; Fr. Apr., May. 



Drimycarpus, Hf. 



1. D. kacemosus, Bth. and Hf. Gen. pi. I. 424 ; Hf. Ind. Fl. II. 

 36. (Holigarna raeemosa, Roxb. Fl. Ind. II. 82). 



Hab. Not nnfrequent in the tropical forests of the eastern slopes of 

 the Pegu Yomah ; also Chittagong. — Fl. Febr., March ; Fr. Jun., July. 



N. B. — The genus hardly differs from Noiliopegia except in the free 

 ovary and in the attachment of the ovules, and stands much in the same 

 relationship to it as Soligama albicans does to Semecarptts. 



Holigarna, Ham. 

 Conspectus of Species. 



Leaves glabrous or rarely pubescent beneath ; nut entirely enclosed in the obliquely 

 ellipsoid or elliptical perfectly glabrous calyx of an inch length, . . . .IT. longifolia. 



Leaves usually pubescent beneath and glabrescent, rarely glabrous; male flowers 

 nearly twice as large as those of the preceding ; drupe obovoid, tomentose while 

 young, the apex of the nut exposed and forming a convex disk, .... S. Grahamii. 



2. H. GtEahamii, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1872, 205 ; Hf. 

 Ind. Fl. II. 37. 



Vab. a. genuika. (Semecarpus Grahamii, Wight, Icon. t. 235). 



Yab. /3. helfebi. (H Helferi, Hf . Ind. Fl. II. 37 ; H. longifolia, 

 Hf. Ind. Fl. II. 37 and Roxb. Corom. PL III. 76 t. 282. the male plant 

 and Fl. Ind. II. 80 quoad plant, mase. e Chittagong). 



Hab. Yar. /?. Frequent in the tropical forests of the Pegu Yomah 

 and the Martaban hills east of Tounghoo. — Fl. March ; Fl. Apr., May. 



The Hindustani tree has the nut much more exserted and broader. 

 But tbose of my Burmese plants, though not yet ripe, already shew the obovoid 

 development. H Helferi, Hf. Ind. Fl. 1. c. from Mergui (Helf. 1133) 

 is in my eyes only a glabrous form of the above. Dr. Hooker assumes that 

 I have mixed up this species and his Holigarna albicans. On reference to 

 a list of Burmese plants sent to me by him, I find that, of the numbers 2014, 

 2016, and 3328, the first, marked by myself as Holigarna Graliamii, as 

 also the remaining two, have been referred at Kew to H Graliamii, but of 

 these No. 2016 is my Semecarpus albescens, while No. 3328 (marked at 

 Kew as fruits of H. Graliamii) is presently not at hand, and the high number 

 would bring it amongst monocotyledons. 



Roxburgh carefully separated his two trees (the Chittagong one and the 

 Hindustani one), describing them separately, and remarked that Hamil- 

 ton had given the generic name to the Hindustani tree. Wight and 

 Arnott are, therefore, quite correct in identifying with Roxburgh's their 

 tree, which Hooker now rechristens H. Ariioltiana. I possess flowering 



