122 G, King — Materials for a Flora of thfi Malayan Petiinsuta, [No. 1, 
tlie pair at base of calyx oblong cvlifite embraeing lower half of tnbe. 
Calyx 08 in», camparmlate, teeth obtuse upper two conimte, lower three 
subfqual all as long as tube. Corolla white, 15 in. long, claws of petals 
short. Stamens 10, monadelplious. Ovary glabrous. Pod turgid 1-3- 
seeded ; '75-2 in< long, "6 in. wide, when young ffilcate along upper, 
when ripe convex along both sutures, when 2- or S-seeded toruloso 
between the seeds. Flor. Ind. Ill, 225; Miq, Flor. Ind. Bat. I, 132; 
Bentb. Jonm. Linn, Soc- IV, Suppl. 33, D. Oumingiana Benth. PI, 
Jungh. 255 ; Journ. Linn. Soc. IV, >SuppL 32 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, 
129. D. 2iollingeriana Miq, Flor. Ind. Bat. I, 130. Drepanocarpua 
Oimtnj/u Knrz, Journ, As. Soc. Beng. XLV, pt. 2, 282. 
Andamans; Heffer 1808! DiNDiNOs ; Gnrtwl Pahano ; Ridley IB7^ I 
2639 ! Perak ; Matang Jambu, Wniy 2525 i Goping, Kunstler U23 ! 
5973! 61511 Scartechinil Distrib. Malay Arclnpelago, 
Eegarding this plant Mr, Hemaley hns noted - — *' This agrees wifch Kew spcci- 
" mena oi D. reniformis Roxb." Thia specios, howovftr, is ti chmber ivhereaa D, revifot' 
mis IB a trei? ; Boxbiirgh'e D, reniijortnis has inoreover nnjch larger flowers and, as 
in D, KutiHtieTi^ the fruits of D, rent/ormw romain falcate along the upper satxire 
even when ripo. 
TJiat this is B, parvijlora Roxh. hardly admifca of & doubt, Mr, Bentiham 
anil Mr, Baker have, indeed, floggested that D. parvijlora may be the saine as D. 
Ju,7itjhuhmi ; in Hpito of the rery great authority of these authors this snggeatiou 
must be abandoned sb untenable. The number and, still more, shape of the 
leafletB make the ideotificatioti impossible ; moreover, Hoibnrgh'fl account of the pod 
shows that his speciea must be, ag Miqnel admits, a Selenolobium and not as Bonthativ 
and Baker Buppoae, a SUsoa. Itoxbtirgh's description ia meagre in the extreme ; 
but since i>. Ctimingiana provides a spocioB that exhibits all the oharaetera of U. 
parvijlora and ns no other Mnlayan species of Dalhergia hitherto found does so, it 
seeme impemtive to use Roxburgh's name for the speciea. 
A more intorpBting question regarding thia plant is, however, its supposed 
identity with Kumphina' L'icca lignum {IJerb. Amhoin. Y, 17, t. 13). So far as 
CnHcutta Bpeoimena go the only authority for the belief is the exiBtence of a speci- 
men from Hiilmahoifa (Teij^manrt, n- 5668) on whioh Mr. Teystnann has written 
*' Kayoe lakka "' and another from Tarabangie, Lamponge, Samalrii (Ilort. Bagor n. 
444*) aUo collected by Mr. Teyamann and ulso marked " Kayoe lukka." It ia re- 
markable that our other Sumatra speeim&ng, coltected on the R. Rawaa by Dr. 
H, 0. Forbes {Forbea n, 331GJ, hfjve no not© to this effect, and just as rumarkablo 
that collecSnrs so careful as Mr, Kidloy, Pr. Scortechfnj, Herr Kunstler and Mr. 
Wray, who have sent ua numerona specimens of the same apeoies, should have raad« 
no note rei^arding it. Their silence renders the matter doubtfol, and appears to 
afford good {ground for Dr. Kontze's refuaal (Reiy. Gen, Pkmt. I, 158) to accept the 
identilication proposed by Teysmanii and adopted by Hasskarl ^Nmie SehltieHscl ai* 
Rumph, p. 90J. Aa Kuntze justly remarks, the meagre account of the flower given 
by Rnmphiua does not fit the present apecies since Kamphius says ic has two 
petals, and though the general habit ngrees that alone hardly aufliees for identifica- 
tion. The calyx of the only open flowar in the figure quite accords with the calyx 
