1898,] G. Kiog — Matenals for a Flora 0/ the Malayan Feninsulcu 9 
Hook, fil Flor, Br. Ind. II, 577. L. ManMmma, Lamk. Ency. Ill, 375 ; 
TIL t 473 fig, 2. Ir. Eeginse, Roxb. PI. Gorom. I, 46, t 60 ; Hort. Beng. 
38; Hook, fii. Flor. Bi% Ind. TI, 503; Blame Bijdiv J127 ; DC. Prod r. 
in, 93; W, & A. Pradr. Flor. Penins. led, 308; Blame Mus, Bot. 
Lngd, Bat. II, 126 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bafe, I, Pt. I, 623 ar«d Siip])l. 328.* 
L. speciosa, Pers. (1807) Encli. II, 72 (not of DC.) ; KooUne hi Engl. 
Bot. Jalirb. IV, 28 ; Koorders and Valeton, Bijdr. I, 190, (exoL from 
all where reduced the syn, L. maerocarpa. Wall.). 
Malacca, Singapore. Peiuk. Disteib. Java, Britisli India. 
I liftva adopted Hutz's mum (publislietl in 1789) for this jtlftiifc, as it Js pretty 
nearly certiiin wliat Rotz^a plant was, Koehtie, Koordera and VoJeton and othera 
however adopt Porsoon's uamQ of L, speciosa on tho ground that,, although it dates 
from only 1807, it preaenres the specific ntinio of Linnajua (Munthhmivenia speeiosa 
1770). But thia procedure is rtsndored inadmiaaable when Linnjeus's deRcription of 
that plant is coosnlted^ for lie describt^^ M. speciosa as a shriih^ wliereaa this plant ia a 
large tree ; moreover thv rest of hia dew:^ription would apply to varioQS otlier apectes 
of Lagerstrmnia ; the identity of specUmif L. is thus quite uncertain, L. macro' 
carpa of Wall* Cat. 2114, is a tree of about the size of L. Flos-Reginte and resem- 
bles it in most respects, bat difTers (1) in having leaves of larger size (5-12 in, 
long) more or less broadly elliptic, never obloug or elliptic-obiont;, the apex often 
aub-acnte and the base broad or narrowed into a petiole twice as long; as that of 
L* Flos'Iteginx ; {2) in the oalyx being very aiightly, if at all, forrow-ed and nCFer 
ribbed, aud (3 J in having a larger more globose capsule (1-1 35 in, long and nearly 
as much in diam,). Thh tree has beuu in cultivation in the Bot. Garden, Calcutta^ 
aide by aide with L. FloS'Regins; for many years. It flowers earlier than the lattor, 
haa pink (not lilac) petals, nud much larger capaulea. In my opinion it is a good 
species and ahoald not be merged in L, Fios-Regime* It is foand only in Bni-ma 
and Cbitt^l^ong, Kiir?,, who was familiar with it in its wild state in Burma, ooii' 
sidored it distiuct and kept it m a speoiea in his Forest Flora of Brttieb Burma, 
5. DuABAKGA, Ham. 
Lar^e glabrona trees with pandent quadrangular branch ea. Leaves 
opposite, distichous, large, ahort-potioled, elongated, actite, entire^ cordate 
or rounded at the base. Panicles large*, terminal, with opposite bran (-lies ; 
flowers large. Calyx-tube wide, adnate to the base of the ovary; lobes 
4-7, thicki valvatc in the bud. Petals 4-7, clawed, obovate, crisped 
and undulate, white. Stamens very many, inserted on a peri<rjnous 
ring. Ovary conical, 4-8-ceUed ; style bent, long; stigraa capitate, 
4-8-iobed ; ovuIps very muny, ascending., plaucntas covering nearly 
the whol<5 interior 'surface of the uvariau cells. Gapsale smb- globose, 
aarronndcd at the base by the thick sproadinf? calyx, coriaceons^ perfectly 
or imperfectly 4-8-celled, 4^8-viilveil. tteeds very numerous, minute, 
cllipKoid, teata pi-odiiccd at both cnda in two tails mwch exceeding the 
length of the nucleus. Di^TRiu. Species 2 ; Eastern Himalaya, Asaam 
aud Malaya. 
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