612 G. King — Mater iah for a Flora of the Malayan Peniueida, [No, 3, 
T]iere is a large suite ot spBcimens of this species in the Calcutta 
Herbarium (twelve gatheriiiga from the Andamfins alone). 1 have 
dissected flovrors of every ono of theae which h in flower, and I find that 
thoy all agree perfectly witli each other. Tliey also agree absolutely with 
Helfer'« specimen, No. 1131. With the plant collected in Pemk by tbe 
Bot. Garden Coliector (No. 7442j they also as to flowers and leaves 
(fruit is absent) ag-ree, except that the Perak plant has slightly larger 
flowers and ihat the calyx -lobes are longer and moi-e aoate. Helfei-'s 
specimen above quoted haa, however, been referred by Di\ Engler, in 
h'm excellent monograph of the family o£ Jnacimliucew^ to Seme- 
carpus albescens^ Kut'z To that identification I must, with »ll res- 
pect, demur. Moreover an examination of the large suite of specimens 
of S. albescens m the Calcutta Hei isarium proves that that plant is 
not a Semecarptig^ but a HuUgurna ; for it Las quite I he fruits and 
epm'ied petioles of the latter genua. Its name ooght therefore to bo 
changed to Holigarna Kurzii^ the specific name albescens being too like 
tt,ihicans which has already been applied to another species. Kurz waa 
rather unfortunate in hia treatment of fchia family. His Hohgarna 
Grahami was not, as h& Bnpposed, the. Semecarpm Qrahami of W. and 
A., which is a plant confined to tbe West of Britiah India and which 
does not extend to Burma. For the Burmese apeeimens included by 
Kurz under H. Qrahami^ Sir Joseph Hooker has substituted the nam© 
JET. albicans^ (Fl. Br. Ind. II, 38.) My own opinion, however, is that 
these Burmese plants are nothing more or less than H. lon^lfolia of 
Boxburgh, of which species that author has left an admii^able coloured 
figure iu the Calcutta Herbarinm. 
Besides the foregoing there are, in tbe Calcotta Herbariara, specie 
mens fram Perak (King's Collector, No. 6623) of a species of Seine- 
carpus which, except in the finer reticnlation of the leaves, agree excel- 
lently with Bcocari's Boj-nean specimens, No, 2875, and 3318, which havo 
been named 3, glama by Dt\ Engler. (BO. Mon. Phan. IT, 478), 
16. Deimtcabpos, Hook. £. 
Trees. Leaves alternate, petioled, simple, quite entire. Eaeeines 
or panicles axilJary, Flowers small, aubglobose, polyganious. Calyx 
superior j lobes 5, rounded, imbricate. Petals 5, erect, aub'Orbicular, 
imbricate. Disc broad, annular. Stamens 5, inserted at the base of 
the disc. Ovary in the male flowerS 0, in the female infei-ior, 3-celled ; 
style 1, very ahoi't ; capitate j omih attached to the wall of the 
cell. Drupe transversely obliquely ovoid, fibrous, flesh resinoas ; atone 
coHaceoaa. Seed attached to the wall of the cell, testa membranous 
embryo thiok, cotyledons plano-convex ; radicle minute, opposite tlie 
hilum ; plumule hairy, A single speoies. 
