18&7,] G. King — Materials f(yr a Mora the Malayan Peninsula. IP^ 
eoBSP. hijuga &ro not apocilloally separable, Forsomfi examples from the AndamanB 
acein intermediato between the two. Thore ftro, Jiowevor, no spocimena thnt serra 
to link either of the forma with the J -jugate subrp. gennina, and it wilt always be 
necesenry to keep them apart aa diBtmot — they are certainly very easily distin- 
guishable — varietieg. 
Vau. heter&phylla la p^tso aaid to be Indinn ; if; ia, however, only foitnd in 
Indian KardHens, tliotipfh it does appear to bo wild on the coasts of Ceylon. Tbat vab. 
inimoRoides occurs in India Reeiott likely from its liaving been figured by Rheedo, 
thoagli no one has ever collGoted it in Malnbar again. It is, however, quite ocm- 
mon in the Suddnbuus nt the northerii otid of the Bay of Bengal and extends from 
tbat ftrca down the enatom side of the Hsiy as far as TonaaBerim and tho Andnmans j 
it has never beori reported from the Makj Peninsala or Archipelago, where vab. 
hetcrophylla {0. bijuga Miq.) ifl the representative form, And jnat as the two foriiie 
grow side by side in the beach forests of tho AndannanSf so they both cccnr ou the 
coasts of Ceylon, for a plant from Trinoomalee issued by WalMoh under 681(5/0 is 
the same thing as his own C. mimosnides from the coasts of Burma. Wight and 
Amott, too, say that thoy also have seen specimong from Ceylon which are the 
gani9 as Rheede^a Malabar plant ; there Is no doaht tbat Rheede^s plant is Wallich^s 
(?. jnimoitoides:. 
In the event of sudsp. hijttgn being treated as ft "spociea" of which keterfypkylla 
and mimosoidef are only Tnriotios, it must bo noted that the name to ha employed, 
from the point of view of priority, alioiild be WnlliohX which is a decade anterior 
to Span'jghe's. But the adoption of Wa^lioh's name will afford an excellent example 
of the disadvantage of the modern craze thnt insists en a rigid adherence to the 
lawa of priorityj Spanoghe's name being so much the more snitable of the two. 
3. CTKOMKTitA iNiSQDALiFOLU A. Gmj, Bofc. U. S. Expl. Exped. 473. 
A lofty tree 150-200 feet bigli ; leafy slioots at first enveloped in im- 
bricating bracts. Leaves even-pinnate, rncbis glabrous 2-3 in. long; 
leaflets 3-jngnte, elliptic-oblong, base obliqnelj cnneate, innep side witl> 
tlie lowev third to two-tbirds of margin straiglit, narrower tban outer 
witb uniformly curved outline, apex sabacuniiiiate ; i-igidly coriaceous, 
dark-green, glabrous and sraootb' on both surfaces, sbiniog above, lateral 
nerves 8-9 pairs very faint and bardly disfcingutsbabie from the secon- 
dary reticolations ; sessile, 2-:> in, long, 1-1'25 iu. wide, tlie lowest tho 
smallest. FfoztfCT-s in enbcapitately congested axillary racemes 1-1 '5 in. 
lonu', 1 in. wide, tho closely imbricating bracts bard, striate, scariong, 
broatiiy ova.te, "25 in. across, pedicels puberulous, -Bd-'S io. long, with two 
oblong membranous basal bracteoles *15 in. long. Oalyx-iuhe very 
short, lobea 5, narrowly obovate, imbricate, ascending, -2 io, long, white. 
Petals 5» oblauceolato, white, '2 in. long, a little narrower than sepals. 
Stamens 10, filaments slender, *4 in. long, glabi-ous, anthers versatile. 
Ovary densely pube.scent, shortly stipitate, very obliqae ; ovules 2. Fod 
obovoid, thickly woody, obliquely obovoid, 2-2'25 in. long, 15 in. wide, 
•75 in. thick. Seed solitary, ii-regnlarly oval-oblong, 1'6 in. long, 1 in. 
broad, '5 in. thick. Buk. in Flor. Brit. Ind, II, 267. 
