360 G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. 3, 



ovoid, glabrous, 3-grooved ; stigma sub-sessile, capitate. Carpels usu- 

 ally 2, oblong, blunt, flat, vertically striate, 2 in. long, each -with two long 

 winged seeds. DC. Prodr. i. 568; Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 165; Cor. PI. ii. 

 t. 130 ; W. & A. Prodr. 104 : Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. FL 32 ; Thwaites 

 Enum. 52 ; Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. 368 ; Brand. For. Fl. 83 ; Miq. Fl. 

 Ind. Bat. Vol. I, pt. 2, 599 ; Lawson in Hook fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 624 : 

 Kurz For. Flora Burma, I, 256. B. barbata, Mull. Phil. Trans. Inst. 

 Vict. Ill, 23. H. disperma, Vahl. Enum. II, 28 : Wall. Cat. 4210 (in 

 part.). H. euonymoides, Vahl, Enum. II, 98. H. obtusifolia, Wall, 

 (not of Roxb.) Cat. 4211 A and B. H. tortuosa, Wall. Cat. 4126 (in 

 part). Tonsella disperma, Poir. Celastrinea ? Wall. Cat. 9013. 



Malacca: Griffith, Maingay (Kew Distrib. ) No. 396. Singapore; 

 Hullett. Distrib.- — Sumatra, Java, British India, Ceylon. 



There has been considerable confusion about the Indian species of 

 the genus Hippocratea. The confusion originated to some extent -with 

 Wallich who issued, under the name H. obtusifolia, Roxb. and the 

 number 4211, a plant which is really H. indica, Willd. In Mr. 

 Lawson's account of H. obtusifolia Roxb. in Hooker's Flora of British 

 India (I, 623) the following six are reduced to that species, viz., 

 H. barbata, Mull. ; H. rigida, Spanoghe ; Salaeia laevigata, Wight : 

 Hippocratia ? grandiflora, Wall. Cat. 4213 ; H. volubilis, Heyne in Wall. 

 Cat. 4215, and H. tortuosa, Wall. Cat. 4216. Besides Roxburgh's 

 description of H. obtusifolia, in Fl. Ind. I, 166, there is his original 

 coloured figure in the Calcutta Herbarium to guide us as to what plant 

 the author really meant to describe under this name. Moreover, 

 so recently as 1883, there have been collected by Mi*. J. S. Gamble at 

 Chengalapalam (in the Nellore district of the Madras Presidency) spe- 

 cimens (Herb. Gamb. No. 12216) of a plant which agree absolutely 

 with Roxburgh's description and figure. These specimens have the 

 short panicles and obtuse emarginate fruits of Roxburgh's figure. Of the 

 six species mentioned by Mr. Lawson, H. barbata, Mull, alone should in 

 my opinion be reduced here, Muller's specimen of it exactly resembling 

 Roxburgh's figure in Herb. Calcutta. Salaeia laevigata, Wight (of 

 which there is a coloured figure in Hooker's Bot. Misc. Ill, 295, Suppl. 

 t. XXXVI ) in my opinion more nearly resembles H. Graliamii Wight 

 (111. I, 134 and Ic. 380) than JET. obtusifolia, Roxb. I have seen no 

 specimen of H. rigida, Spanoghe, but Miquel's description of it (Fl. Ind. 

 Bat. I, pt. 2, 600) does not agree either with Roxburgh's description 

 or with his figure of H. obtusifolia. Of the three Wallichian species, 

 H. grandiflora (Cat. No. 42L3) is a perfectly distinct good species which 

 has been described and figured by Korthals (Verb. Nat. Gesch. 

 p. 187 t. 39) as H. macrantha. H. volubilis (Cat. No. 4215) consists of two 



