OF THE HERBARIUM AMBOINENSE. W5 
Poiret (Enc. Meth. v. saw in M. Lamarck's collec- 
tion ; for this is an Indian and not an American plant, as 
the P. Draco of Willdenow is ; and the figure which M. 
Lamarck gives of the fruit (III Gen. t. 602, f. 2), is exactly 
alike. It is true, that M. Poiret describes also a P. santo- 
Una (Enc. Meth. v. 727) ; but he had seen no specimen, 
and I suspect that he has described the same plant under 
two names. The specific character (foiiis ternatis) given 
to the P. sardolinaj probably deterred him from admitting 
them to be the same. This tree is common on all the 
mountains of India south from the Ganges. In the 
woods of Gangetic India, where I found it, the name used 
was Pasar^ but to Dr Roxburgh it was called Rucla Chan- 
dana, in both the Hindwi and Bengalese dialects, and in 
the Sanscrita Koo Chandana^ evidently the same with the 
Koe Tsjandanam, given by Rumphius as a name used by 
the Brahmins of Caliatour (Krishna patana). In Carnata 
it was called to me Whonay (Buchanan's Mysore, i. 184), 
on which account the specimens sent from thence to Sir 
J, E. Smith were called Pterocarpus Honna. This I 
shall here describe, leaving it to others to determine the dif- 
ficulties that have arisen from confounding an American 
and Indian P. Draco. 
Arbor excelsa materie optima, succo corticis sanguineo. Rami tere- 
tes, ad petiolos nodosi. Folia altema, cum imparl pinnata ; foliola 3-6 
per paria approximata, pedicellata, ovalia vel oblongo-ovata, basi obtusa, 
integerrima, emarginata, supra nitida, subtus glabra, in planta siccata 
prtesertim nervis utrinque prominulis reticulata, subcostata, plana, fir- 
ma. Petiolus communis basi incrassato teres, glaber, foliolis brevior, 
nan stipulaceus. 
Racemi terminales, paniculati, laxi, foiiis breviores. Flores sparsi, 
pedicellis longiores, flavi, immaculati, odoratissimi. Bractece parvse, 
squamseformes, caducse, concavse, ad calycis basin geminas, ad pedicelli 
basin solitarise. Tomento nigro teguntur calyces, bractea?, et pedun- 
culi. 
Calyx iurbinatus, denticulis quinque obtusis, quorum duo superiores 
