72 G. King — Materials for a Flora of the MalnT/an Peninsula. [I^o. 1, 
2. Erythrina oyaltfolu Roxb, Horfc. Beng. 53, A tree 30-40 
feet high with Bpreading branclios, bark grey, stem 1*5-2 feet diam., 
armed with thick-baaed dark-brown prickles. Leaves 8-12 in. long ; 
petioloa 4-5 in. long sparsely prickly, when young very sparingly 
ptibeiulous, when fail grown quite glabrous; leaflets 3 subcortaceous 
deep green above glaucous beneath quite glabrous on both eurfaceg, 
terminal ovate or ovate-oblong 4-6 in. long 2-5-3*5 in. across, lateral 
pair similar but leather smaller, base rounded or wido-caneate apex 
obtuse or subacute ; petiolules "25 iu, long ; stipels represented by ovate 
persistent glands *1 in. in diam. ; stipules membraiioua orbicular deci- 
duous *15 in. across. InfloresGejice in lax 8-20-fld. racemes 3-6 in. long 
on stout spreading peduncles 5-8 in. long ; flower 1-3 iti axils of small 
broadly ovate deciduous puberulous bracts i pedicels puberulous "3 in. 
long with similar but smaller bracteoles at base of calyx. Buds narrow- 
ly ovate, puberulous. Oalyx *5 in, long, *6 in. wide deeply 2-lobed. 
Corolla 2 in. long dark velvety-brown with deep scarlet tinge, standard 
1-5 in. wide emarginate, wings 75 in., keel-petals coherent 1 in, long. 
Ovary softly grey-puberulous, stalked. Pod 6-8 in. long 6-8-seeded on 
a stalk "5 in* long, pale-brown pnbei-uloua, valves moio distinctly dehis- 
cing by tbe sutures ; seeds subreniform *5 in. long, *3 in. wide, testa 
brown, hilum large oval. Eosb. Flor. Ind. HI, 254 ; Wall. Cat. 5961 ; 
Wight Ic, t. 247 ; Bentb. PI. Jungh. 237 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. 1, 207 ; 
Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. II. 189. E. holosericea Kurzj Journ. As. So3. 
Beng. XLII, pt. 2, 69 as to flowers. Duchasmtngia ovalifoUa Walp. in 
Linuf^a XXIII, 742. 
Perak ; Kinta, Kunstler 7215! Malacca; Maingay 5281 Dis- 
TSiB. S.-E. Asia, from Assam and Bengal to the Malay Arcbipelago 
and Polynesia. 
Mr. Km'y/s Eriffhrinn holosericea {Corallodendron holosericeum 0. Knutze, Eev . 
Gon. PI. 1, 172) ia a Bpnrioua speciea niainifaeturod hy combiniug in one diagiiosia a 
descdption of the flowera of E^ovalifolia arid of the leaves of E. IMuispermai 
the milanfje had booa sent to Herb. Calcutta by tun officer of tbe Indian Forest 
Departmeilt under tlio idea that it came from one troei. The citation of tlits 
8pecio9 by Kuntzo {he cit.) while that author is taking the opportunity to 
(as tlio ivriter thlnkB) unneccBBarily restore an obfiolete generic nwino, might load to 
the ctincluBion that Kmitste had made an effort to verify the validity of the 
KnrKian Bpecieaj as to the oKistenoa of which Wr. Baker had already expressed a 
donbb {Flora of British India II, V90). It is obvions, however, that Kantno has 
done nothing of the kind and it woold seem from thia citation that the objeet of 
mach of the bouleHBrsetJient effected by priority-hnnting " botanists " is less the 
rfiBtoratien of goneric names that have boon ira properly Buppressod than a search 
for opportunitieB of posing aa the aathoritiea for species of whose characters they 
are ignorant. 
la the Herbaiium of Mr. Oartia, of the Penang Forest Department, is a solitary 
