360 G. King — Materials f(yr a Mora of the Malaija7i Peninsula, [No. 3, 
ovoid, glabroQS, 3-gTOOved ; sHgma snb-sesBile, capitate. Carpels tisa- 
all j 2^ oblong, blant, fiat, TerticalFj striate, 2 in. long, each irith two long 
winged seeds. DC. Prod r. i. 568; Roxb. FK Ind. i, 165; Cor. PL ii. 
130; W. <fc A. Prodr. 104 : Dalz. & GibH, Bomb. PI. 32; Tbwaitea 
Ennm. 52; Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. 368 ; Brand. For. Fl. 83 ; Miq. Fl. 
Ind. Bat. Vol. 1, pt. 2, 599 ; Lawson in Hook fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 624; 
Kiirz For. Flora Barma, I, 256. IT. harhata. Mull. Phil. Trana. Inst. 
Vicfc. Ill, 23. U. disperma, Vahl. Ennm, II, 28: Wall. Cat. 4210 (in 
pai-t.). M. enonymoideSf Valil, Eoura. II, 98* B. ohtnsifolia, Wall, 
(not of Roxb.) Gat. 4211 A and B. if. fortmsa, Walt. Cat. 4126 (in 
part). Tansella dispemia^ Poir, Celastrinea ? Wall. Cat. 9013. 
Malacca: Griffitli, Maingay (Kgw Diatiib.) No. 396, Singapore; 
Hnllett. DiSTfun. — Sttmatra, Java, British India, Ceylon, 
There baa been considerable confusion about the Indian spcciea of 
the genus Bippocratea. The confasion originated to some extent with 
Waliich who is.^ued, under the name H. ohtudfoUa, Roxb. and tho 
number 4211, a plant which is really JJ. iridica, Willd. In Mr. 
Lawson'a account of ohttm/olia Roxb. in Hooker 'a Flora of Britiijli 
India (I, 623) tho followinjj am are reduced to tliat species* uiV, 
H, harbaia. Mall. ; S. ngtda^ Spanoghe ; Saluda laevigata, Wiglit : 
JJippocratia ? grandiflora. Wall. Cat. 4213; H. voluhilisr Heyne in Wall. 
Cat. 4215, and JI, tortnosa^ Wall. Cat, 4216. Besides Roxburgh's 
description of IT. ohttisifolia^ in Fl. Ind, I, 166, there is his original 
coloured figure in the Calcutta Herbarium to guide ns as to what plant 
the author really meant to describe under this name. Moreovei', 
BO recently as 1883, there have been collected by Mr. J. S. Gamble at 
Chengalapalam (in the Kellore district of the Madras Presidency) ape- 
ciniens (Herb. Gamb, No. J2216) of a plant which agi'ce absolutely 
with Roxburgh's desci'iption and figure. These specimens have tho 
short panicles and obtuse emarginate fruits of Roxburgh's figure. Of tho 
six species mentioned by Mr, Lawson, ZT. harhatat Mull, alone should in 
my opinion be reduced here, Muller'a specimen of it exactly resembling 
Roxburgh's figure in Herb. Calcutta. Salacia laevigata, Wight (of 
which there is a coloured figure in Hooker's Bot, Miso. Ill, 295, Suppl. 
t. XXXVI) in my opinion more nearly resembles H. Omhamii "Wight 
(lib I, 134 and Ic. 880) than H. ohtnsifoUaf Eoxb. I have seen no 
ppocimen of iT. rigida, Spanoghe, but Miquel's description of it (Fl. Ind. 
Bnt. I, pt. 2, 600) does not agree either with Roxburgh's description 
or with bis figure of E, oUmifolia. Ot the three Wallichian species, 
• Jf. grandiftora (Cat. No. 4213) is a perfectly distinct good species which 
has been described and figured by Korthala (Verb. Nat. Gesch. 
p. 187 t. 39) as E, macranilM. E. voluUUs (Cat. No. 4215) consists of two 
