114 G". King — New Indian Trees. [No. 2, 



The species is near V. bracteolata, Wall., but has cymes with longer 

 peduncles and larger flowers. To this belong Wall. Cat. 6034 issued 

 by Wallich as V. serrulata. 



There are in the Calcutta Herbm. many specimens of a Vitis from 

 the N.-W. Himalaya, Sikkim, the Khasia Hills, Assam and Upper 

 Burma, for which I can find no name. It comes very near to V. pedicel- 

 lata, Laws., but differs in the character of the hair on the lower sur- 

 face of the leaves being shorter and more uniformly spread over the 

 intercostal spaces ; whereas in V. pedicellata, it is confined to the 

 nerves and veins, and the hairs are longer. This plant may be a variety 

 of V. Heyneana, R. and S., less hairy than typical form. 



Descriptions of some Netv Indian Trees. — By George King, M.B., LL.D., 

 F.R.S., CLE., Superintendent of the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta. 



[Reed. 28th April, Read 6th May.] 



Nat. Ord. Meliaceae. 



Dysoxylum reticulatdm, n. spec. A tree 50 feet high ; young 

 branches stout, striate, puberulous. Leaves 9 to 18 in. long, equally 

 pinnate ; the petiole flattened in front, the rachis angled, both puberu- 

 lous; leaflets 4 to 7 pairs, opposite or alternate, thinly coriaceous, 

 oblong, slightly unequal-sided, shortly acuminate, the base cuneate and 

 often oblique ; both surfaces glabrous and minutely reticulate, the lower 

 glaucous when young, both pale when dry ; length 3 to 7 in., breadth 1 

 to 2"25 in., petiolules "2 to "3 in. long. Racemes solitary, axillary, 6 to 8 

 in. long, tawny-puberulous, bearing flowers from near the base. Flowers 

 broadly ovoid in bud, about '25 in. long, rather remote, their pedicels 

 about "2 in. long, each with a subulate basal bracteole. Calyx cupular, 

 with 4 remote teeth, glabrous, fleshy. Petals 4, three or four times as long 

 as the calyx, elliptic, sub-acute, concave, hoary-puberulous on both 

 surfaces. Staminal tube cylindric, shorter than the petals, slightly 

 inflated about the middle, the mouth with 8 shallow emarginate teeth ; 

 hoary-puberulous externally, glabrescent internally ; anthers 8, oblong, 

 their apices much below the mouth of the tube. Disc tubular, short, 

 fleshy, glandular-pubescent, the mouth incurved and irregularly toothed. 

 Ovary depressed-hemispheric, 3-angled, 3-celled with 2 ovules in each 

 cell, pubescent; tapering into the stout sub-glabrous style ; stigma slightly 

 exserted, cylindric with a narrow basal annulus. Ripe fruit broadly 

 pyriform, the apex depressed, 3 in. long, and 2'5 in. in diam., rugulose 

 when young, glabrous and smooth when adult ; the pericarp crustaceous, 



