189?.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malaifan FmiumJa. 2(57 
is Heahy and esculent. Wlien tbereloio Ben L bam and, following him, Miqael do3i:i"ibe 
tlio seeds of thoir PUhccolobiiim lobaitim, for iviiich tUey cite both of Roxbur^i'i'a 
nam 69, afl oiwcloped iti edible pulp, thtsy give a character derived from Boiburgh's 
descrljition of M. Kocrimja only* 
On BTirmeae epeciinena Sir D. Brnndis lias noted "fruit sold;" Gullatly 
Buys '* edible, commom in the Imsars ; " Kufz has said nothing about the fruits 
or seeds and baa not dasoribed the lutter ; Baker too htia refrained from doscribiiifif 
them, Hftsskarl in deacribinif the use of the fruits does not say whether it is the 
pod or the seed that is employed; h© dMss say tliat the pulp of the Rood dia- 
appears when fch« fruit ia ripe I • Koorders and Viilclon say that tho footid 
seeds are eaten cooked. Watt in tlio Dictiontiry of the Eecmomic Prothtcls of Indki only 
qaotes Roshnrgh- What the actual facta raay b© it ia for Malayan botanists to 
declare. Is ifc tho aucouleat pod, a fleshy pnip, or the seed itself of Jiring that 
is eaten ? And has Jitinj any palp at all ? If ao, ia thia palp an arillua f 
Roxburgh, though ho laboured under tho double diandvatitago of working in the 
East, and of dealing largely with living pHants, was ncvertlicloas remarkably ^Wen 
to being accurate 5 in spite of the fixct that systeniiitists in Europe, whose labours 
have been ainiplified by being confined to dried specimens, propose to unite the two, 
tho writer thinks it should be left an open question whether tlu^rc may not bo a 
Pithi>t:olohium Koerin^a wbosa seeds have an edilile palp, and a PiihccolohiHtn 
Jij t'rtjja without a pulp enveloping the seeds. H thia bo ao, those are tho nnmes 
thai should be used to dt'signate the two trees, dace the name P. lobnfum, though the 
best to employ so long as the point is ia dubiety, rauat obviously be disc irdod should 
it be foaad that Roxburgh wai* right. 
5. PifiiBCObOBtCM NicoDARicUM Pram. A smalt tree with slcmler 
glabrous zig-zfig branchleta with dark greenish- brown hark. Leaves 
evvrdy 2-piniiate ; mchia '75 in, long, glabrous, with a gland jufit nbovo 
the middle but none at base or between the 1 -jugate pinnte; rachises 
of -pmnm 1-5-2 in. long, glabrona, glaudless; leaflets 2- (very rarely 3-) 
J n gate, ovate- lanceolate, gradually tapering to the acute apex and cune- 
ate base, brigb t^green, glabrons on both siirfaceB, Bhining above, duller 
beneath, distal pair 3-4 in. long, l'4-l-8 in. wide, others l'2-5 in. 
long, *5-l-25 in. wide; petiolulcs distinct, glabrous, *1 in. long. Fluirers 
\i\ small few-fid. beads on puberulous pedicels '25 in, long, in tenuiiial 
and axillary mcemea '75-2 in. long. Calyx pubescei^t, canipauulate, 05 
in. long, teetb deltoid, small. Corolla and staniem not seen. Pod 
dehiscent along lower suture, 5-6 in. long, '75 iu. wide, spirally twisted, 
valves. thickly coiiaceous, glabrous, dull, purpUsli-red, sinuate between 
the seeds along the upper margin. Seeds 8-10, orlnculai'- ovate, some- 
what compreissetl, '6 in. long, '5 in. wide, *25 in. thick, testa thin, crus- 
tiiceous, dark-purple smooth sb in ing J arilliis absent. AJhizzia hnhaUna 
{VUhecQluhium huhaUnum) KurK, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XhV, 2. 129 not 
of Bcufcli. PUhecolobititii opposituvi Kurz, loc, tU., not of Miq. 
• There is no pulp visi'jlo in any of onr specimens at Calcutta in aajr stage of 
^Jie jiorf, whether the apecimcua come from Burma, tho Malay I'eniusnln^ or the 
Archipelago. 
