68 D. Pram — Flora of Narcondam and Barren Tsland. [No. 2, 



lanceolatis subtus viridibus glabris, 



floribus viridescentibus var. larutensis. 



[Perak ; prov. Larut : f orsan etiam in archipelagine Malayana 

 apud Priaman]. 



It will be noted that the writer is unable to perpetuate the generic rank 

 (Eriodendron) assigned by DeCandolle to the Linnean Bombax pentandrum. When 

 the differences in the staminal columns of the three ' species ' here recognised 

 are reduced to the simplest possible terms, we observe that in B. pentandrum this 

 whorl consists of but one element, the items of which are alternate with the petals ; 

 that in B. insigne, likewise, there is but one element, the items of which are opposite 

 the petals ; that in B. malabaricum, on the other hand, both these elements occur. 

 Either, therefore, Bombax malabaricum and Bombax insigne typify two genera as 

 distinct from each other as Eriodendron is from either ; or, as is here proposed, all 

 three are congeneric. In another place the writer hopes to show that he is right 

 in thinking, with Schumann, that Pachira does not deserve to be removed generi- 

 cally from Bombax ; that he is justified in further reducing Chorisia to Eriodendron, 

 and therefore also to Bombax ; and is entitled to believe, with Willdenow, that the 

 characters which separate Adansonia from Bombax are too trivial to be generic. 



On the other hand, it will be noted that the material of some of the forms 

 included in B. insigne is not yet complete, and it will be readily understood that 

 writers who recognise as distinct the ' genera ' referred to in the preceding paragraph, 

 will be still more apt to treat as specifically separable the various forms of B. insigne 

 here denned. No work on Indian Botany hitherto published notes B. insigne as 

 Indian ; the tree, when mentioned, is stated to occur only in Indo-China. 



vi. STERCULIACE^E. iv. 

 11. Stebculia eubigniosa Vent., var. glabeescens King. Narcondam 

 (10) ; Barren Island (4). 



Andamans and Nicobar coasts, general ; the variety only. 

 — . Heuitibha littoralis Dryand. Narcondam, fruits on beach, E. 

 Bay ; Barren Island, fruits on beach at Landing-place Cove : not found 

 growing in either island. 



vii. TILIACE^E. — . 

 32. Geewia l^vigata Vahl. Narcondam (11) ; in leaf only. 

 Africa ; India, Burma, Malaya ; Australia. 



vni. RUTACE^E. — . 



13. Glycosmis pentaphtlla Corr. Narcondam (12). 

 India, Indo-China, Malaya. 



ix. BURSERACE^]. v. 



14. Gaeuga pinnata Roxb. Narcondam (13) ; Barren Island (5) ; in 

 both islands common. 



India, Burma, Malaya. 



, Canabium eupiitzlum Kurz. Narcondam ? 



The leaves of this species occur in Herb. Calcutta, and are given as from 



