96 (J. King — Materiab for a Flora of the Mahyan Peninsula. [No, 1, 
KunsthrU20l 5625 I 'Malagca ; Deny 9S9 I Distkib. Ceylon (Thwaites 
C. P. 14B9) ; Java ; Siimatra. 
Pongamia glabra is the woU -known littoral speciea koown in Soiathem India 
generally aa Pangamj in NorttiGrn India as Karanj^ hi Burma as Thin.iom and in 
Malaya iia Malapari. Thronghout India it is very generally planted, both as a timber 
tree, and for the sake oi' the oil obtained from its eeede ; it doea not eeem to be 
planted in the Malayan provinoea. 
The typical vsiriety appears in two Boraewhat dietincfc forma that pass, however, 
into each other by all kinds of mtorcnGdiates. These are : — 
fa) n form with medinm-sized leaflets and flowers fthe original P. (jlahra) whioli 
ia Bprend tbraiiglumt tliti area occupied by the species; also 
(/3) a form with decidedly larger IcaHeta and flowers (the form named P. jjrantit- 
folia ZoU, & Mor.) v%'hich exienda from north to south along tlie uoosts of Chitta- 
gong, Arraoan, the Andtimaiis, Nicobars, Samatra and Ja^a, sipparoiitly without 
extending westward to the SuDdriboas and India or eastward to TeaaBsorim and 
the Malay Peninsnla. 
VAK. xcrocarpa^ thongh only separable by characters that individually are trivial, 
xjevertheleas looks remarkably different from the type ; it reaemblea far more the 
two speciea known aa Milkttia dectpiens, and Milletiti dehiscens. Indeed, with 
flowers alone, oaly a careful examination of the ovary, 4- or more-ovalod in the 
MUlettias, 1- or 2-ovuled in the Fongamia, onsnrea accnrato determination. The 
fruita of the MUlettias are, however, {leliisceiit aiid therefore unlike those of Pongamia, 
Roibtvrgh used for thta ^onna Lamarck* a; name Galedupa, first sipplied in, ITStS. 
Lamarck's us© of the name depended on his belief that Caju yahdwpa Rnmphiua 
{Herb, Amboin. II, t. 13) waa this tree. As fii?iired, however, Cajib galedupa baa 
equally-piimate leaves, dehiacent pods and arillate seeda ; Pm^arnia glabra has un- 
eqaally-pianate leaves, indohiacent pods, no adllua and a vory small bilnm. Moreover 
KumpMua describes and fignres Pongamia glabra {Herb. Amhoin. Ill, 117J umler its 
Malay name Malapari. That Lamarck had detected his mistake ia clear from hia 
having ah findoned the name Qaledupa in 1797 {lllustr. t. 603) in favoar of Pungamia 
taken from Adansoii's name Fongam of 1768. Thia last Ventenat amended to 
Pongamia in 1803, and in that form has hecomo familiar a name wbiob, even were 
GuledHjM accurately applicable, id maoh anterior to Galedupa. The poiat would not 
indeed call for digcnesion bat for the fact that quite recently Taabert in the authori- 
tative Nuttulicfivn Pjlanzenfamilien haa re*adopted Eoxbargh'a ueage. Kuiitze, nob 
Batiafied oven witlv this amount of change, desires to uae the word Ca/it(«i) ; that is, 
he desirea to n^e proeisely the synonym winch cannot bo applied to the plant des- 
cribed by Lamarck, aa the name of the plant to which Lamarck's doflnition belongs. 
Loareiro, overlooking both Rnmphius' deaeri|ition of the poda and hia tignro 
allowing its leaflets as opposite, referred MoUt2}arius to Fterocarpus; he haa been 
followed in this by nioafc sabBeqaoet botanists except Miqael, who, baring aeen 
apecimena of Malapari coUect/ed in Sumatra by Teysmann, removed the plant from 
Fterocarpua and estnblished it aa a genus. Bcntluim {Gen. Plant. 1, expresses a 
doubt as t*i Teysmann's Malapari being conspocific with Rximphius' one. Everything, 
however, ia in fav^our of the belief (nnfortnnately the Snniatra plant is nnrepresented 
in Herb. Calcutta] that Teyatnann's ' Malapan' is Fongnmia glabra, '^isi n& B,nm- 
phius' ' illflfnjxii t ' and the * ifaiapari' reeontly collected by Derry in Malacca, ore 
Pottgiimia glabra. But it must be noted that while Rnmphiua' 'Malapari' appears 
