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and Sindora galedupa Prain is based wholly on Rumphius. The 

 exact status of the species still remains uncertain, but it is 

 manifestly very near Sindora coriacea Prain and S. inermis 

 Merr. Prain thought that Sindora sumatrana Miq. var. javanica 

 Koord. & Valeton might be a synonym of Sindora galedupa. 

 I suspect that Sindora inermis Merr. will have to be reduced to 

 Sindora galedupa Prain, when botanical material from the Mo- 

 luccas is available for comparison. The type of my species was 

 from back of the mangrove swamp at Sarangani, southern 

 Mindanao, there known as gayugalo, a native name that is 

 certainly suggestive of caju galedupa. It differs from the 

 Rumphian plant in having six rather than eight leaflets, perhaps 

 also in having slightly larger pods, while Rumphius does not 

 figure or describe the prominent aciniciform stipules that are 

 characteristic of Sindora inermis Merr. 



TAMARINDUS Linnaeus 



TAMARINDUS INDICA Linn. Sp. PL (1753) 34. 

 Tamarindus Rumph. Herb. Amb. 2: 90, t. 23. 

 Amboina, Robinson PI. Rumph. Amb. 5^9, December 1, 1913, from culti- 

 vated trees, locally known as assam. 



This widely distributed and well-known species hardly needs 

 discussion. Linnaeus referred the Rumphian figure to his 

 species, in Stickman Herb. Amb. (1754) 9, in which he has been 

 followed by all succeeding authors. 



I NTS I A Thouars 



INTSIA BIJUGA {Colebr.) O. Kuntze Rev. Gen. PI. 1 (1891) 192. 



Macrolobium bijugum Colebr. in Trans. Linn. Soc. 12 (1819) 359, t. 17. 

 Afzelia bijuga A. Gray Bot. Wilkes U. S. Explor. Exped. (1854) 

 467, t. 51. 



Outea bijuga DC. Prodr. 2 (1825) 511. 



Intsia amboinensis DC. Prodr. 2 (1825) 509 (type!). 



Macrolobium amboinense Teysm. ex Hassk. in Abh. Naturf. Gesellsch. 



Halle 9 (1866) 189 (type!). 

 Metrosideros amboinensis Rumph. Herb. Amb. 3: 21, t. 10. 



This species is not represented in our Amboina collections, 

 yet the identity of Metrosideros amboinensis Rumph., at least for 

 the most part, with the plant commonly known as Intsia (Afze- 

 lia) bijuga 0. Kuntze is certain. Loureiro, Fl. Cochinch. (1790) 

 266, cites it with doubt under Baryxylum rufum, but Baryxylum 

 rufum Lour, manifestly belongs in the genus Peltophorum; see 

 Pierre, Fl. Forest. Cochinch. 4: sub. t. 390. Loureiro's descrip- 

 tion of the flowers applies to Peltophorum, of the fruits perhaps 

 to Intsia; his specimen in the herbarium of the British Museum 



