1897.] G. King — Mat<;rtahforaFhraofih&-MiitayanPeninstila, 2il 
narrow. Pod (including stalk 2-5 in. long) 18-20 in. long, 2-2"5 in. 
wide, '3 in. tliiok, black, glabrous. Seedj; 12-18, oblong-oval, "9 in. lonj^, 
'6 in. wide, -25 in. thick, fiark-browii and smooth Ui*-ougliont. Hassk. 
Cat. Horfc. Bo^. '280 ; PI. Jav. liar, 414 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, 53. P. 
maeroearpa Miq. Flor. Itid. Bat. Suppl. 28^. Acacia grawohns Jack, 
Mai. Misc. II, 78. The Pete or Pethek. 
Penang ; on the coast, cultiratod, (jArtia! Prov. Welleslbt; 
Kundler 1657 f Perikj Thaipinpf, Scortechmi 504 ! Larnt, in deirse jiinglo 
from 600-2000 feet &\ev., local, KumUer 5300! DisiRiu. Sumati'a ; 
Java, (enit. Hasskarl !). 
It would appear that thia ia the only Bpecios of Farhia truly wild in oa.r area. 
It has been identified by Father Soortoohint with P, macroctirpa ITiq., from 
SviEQatra. of whir-li thpro is nn niUhentic speoiimen fit Calcutta; it certainly aooords 
ndtnirably with Miquora description. TUoro i* at Calcutta an aathentio example 
of Uafiskai t's P, »pec\06a ; it provea that tho present species Ea no other than 
llasskai Fb plaut, and as Ha^skarrs nnme bos ueitrly twenty yeara* priority it is here 
lidopteti. In. the hulcxi Kewmms it ia BUf^pjeated that both P. intermedia and p. 
tpecioaa may be fi>rinB of P. Roxburghii. To judge by Hftaakarl's description this 
may be hm of P. inUrrmdia ; as regiirde P. speciosa the euggegtion is obviously 
ail iropossiblR one. 
While however, tIa-'«skfirl*B name P. speeiosa is long anterior fro Miquel'e, it doe** 
not conserve tlie oldoat spRcifio name. 'I'his tree ia, &a Haaakarl oxpresaly admitSj 
{Neiier Scklaeiss. 60) the iVf<? of Runi[>hiua {Herb. Amb, MI, 51) j it ia equally the 
Petek of Jack, to which Jack hm given the name Acacia gvavcolem, Tho writer 
does not propose, in the modrirn manner, to au^geat that F. specw^a ehouUl there- 
fore bo known aa Parkta gmveolens, thou;^h donbtloaa there are those who will Boise 
the opportunity cf applying this name and of posuig aa authorttioa for tlio Bpcciea. 
It is strnngo that though evidently wild bo near as in Sumatra and in the Malay 
Petiiusula, thia apeuies ia only calEivatotl in Java, and that thoro, according to 
Koordora and Valeton, ita native country ia unknown. Tiioso authora indeed 
(Bijdr, I, 263) Bugejest that it ia a nativo of British India, It certainly h not a 
native of India proper ; it ia not evsu cukivated there. Our Indian spocioa are, 
P. Roxlurghit {P.hujlobos(t), vr'dd in SiHich, Oachfir and Cbittagong; I*, leiophylld, 
wild in Fegn ; and P. ivsirffih, wild in Martaban, We in India alflo experience a 
diflSculty like that experitjucod by our Datch collengnes, since there ia a HpBni'>a P, 
hiffhnidulosa, rultivated in India from Madias to Assam, of whose natural habitat 
we are soniowhat uncertain. 
59. Entada Adans. 
Woody unarmed climbers, with tendrils. Leaves bipinnato. Fhwers 
in long narrow Bpikes, minute, yellowiab, poljgamotLs. Oalya; minute, 
caoipaiiulate, equally 5-toothcd. Corolla oblong in bad, the 5 long 
eqnal narrow lobes falcate in expansion. Stamens 10, free, tsliortly 
exsertcd, filaments filiform ; antliursj crowtied with a gland, Ovart/ 
Bubsesaile, niany-ovtilGd ; style filiform, Btignaa concave terminal Pod 
flat, woody, very large, coaipcsetl of many discoid one-aeeded joiuta, 
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