1896.] Gr. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 493 



in. long, veined, pnbescenfc. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 30 ; Kurz For. 

 Flora Burma, I, 318 ; Engler in DC. Mon. Phan. IV, 309. Astronium 

 insigne, March. Rev. Anacard., 179. 



Andaman Islands. Penang : Curtis, No. 2264. Langkani : Cui^tis, 

 No. 2806. — Distrib. Burma. 



This species has not hitherto been supposed to go farther south 

 than Burma. But it appears to me that Mr. Curtis's No. 2806 from 

 Langkani (an island off the coast a little to the southward of Bui^ma) 

 is probably this species, and also that his No. 2264 from Penang like- 

 wise belongs to this. 



Yar. tomentosa, King : leaflets pubescent on the lower surface. 

 Panicles and calyx in all its stages densely rusty-tomentose. 



Andaman Islauds : King's Collectors. 



2. Parishia Majngayi, Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 30. A tree s 

 young branches stout, glabrous, sparsely lenticellate. Leaves 12 to 1.5 in. 

 long, the petioles slightly dilated at the base ; leaflets very coriaceous, 

 9 to 10 pairs, narrowly oblong or elliptic-oblong, not oblique, the apex 

 acute, the edges sub-undulate, the base rounded or slightly cuneate ; 

 both surfaces shining and indistinctly reticulate, the upper quite glab- 

 rous, the lower slightly puberulous on the midrib and nerves ; main 

 nerves 15 to 20 pairs, spreading, faint : length 2 - 5 to 3'5 in , breadth 

 1 to 1"25 in. ; petiolules about "2 in. Panicles (fide Sir J. Hooker) 

 apparently shorter than the leaves, pubescent. Petals linear-oblono-. 

 Disc pilose, young fruit narrowly ovoid, tapering to a long point, densely 

 rusty-tomentose ; the enlarged calyx- wings linear-oblong, sub-acute, pale, 

 puberulous, sub-coriaceous, striate, 4'5 in. long and about '5 in. broad. 



Malacca : Main gay, No. 488. 



Except Maingay's, I have seen no specimens which I can refer to 

 this species. I have copied from the Fl. Br. Ind. Sir J. D. Hooker's 

 description of the panicles and flowers, neither of these being repre- 

 sented in the Calcutta Herbarium. There is some doubt as to whether 

 the fruits and leaf specimens brought together by Maingay really 

 belong to the same tree ; and not only so, but it is doubtful whether the 

 fruits of two species have not been mixed up by him. For Sir Joseph 

 Hooker notes that, while some of the fruits are densely covered with 

 hispid ferrugineous bristles and have accrescent calyx-wings 6 to 7 

 inches long with rounded apices, others are pubescent and have wings 

 only 4 - 5 in. long with acute tips. The species clearly requires investi- 

 tion in the field. 



3. Parishia pubescens, Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 30. A lofty 

 tree : young branches stout, deciduously rusty-tomentose. Leaves 12 



the petiole pubescent, terete above, dilated near the 

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