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16. KINGIODENDRON Harms. 
1. Kingiodendron alternifolium (Elmer) Merr. & Rolfe in Philip. Journ. 
Sci. 4 (1909) Bot. 267. 
Cynometra alternifolia Elmer Leaf!. Philip. Bot. 1 (1907) 223. 
Hardwickia alternifolia Elmer 1. c. 362. 
Luzon, Province of Cagayan, For. Bur. 14722 Darling: Province of Tayabas, 
For. Bur. 10327, 10354 Curran, Bath s. n. : Province of Camarines, For. Bur. 
10671 Curran: Province of Sorsogon, For. Bur. 10624 Curran: Province of Albay, 
For. Bur. 15082 Rosenbluth. Masbate, Merrill 2761, Whitford 1679, For. Bur. 
12668 Rosenbluth. Ticao, For. Bur. 12546 Rosenbluth, For. Bur. 1084 Clark. 
Samar, For. Bur. 12851 Rosenbluth. Panay, Vidal 2468 in Herb. Kew. Leyte, 
For. Bur. 12711 Rosenbluth, Elmer 7366 (type number). Mindanao, District of 
Zamboanga, For. Bur. 9007, 9301 Whitford & Hutchinson, For. Bur. 11036 
Whitford, For. Bur. 6567 Hutchinson ; District of Davao, Samal Island, For. Bur. 
11550 Whitford. 
Native names: Batete (Ticao, Masbate); dangay (Tayabas, Camarines, Albay, 
Masbate) ; magbalogo (Samar) ; salalangin (Sorsogon) ; duca (Leyte) ; palina 
(Davao) ; palo maria, bitanhol (Zamboanga). 
A genus of two known species, one in British India, and one in the Philippines. 
Endemic. 
17. SIN DORA Miq. 
1. Sindora supa Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 198. 
Sindora wallichii F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1880) 71; Vid. Sinopsis Atlas (1883) 
t. 43, fig. C, Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. (1886) 118, non Benth. 
Luzon, Province of Tayabas, For. Bur. 23 Ware, Whitford 910, For. Bur. 859, 
860 Bath, Merrill 1010, 2021, 2596, 2611, For. Bur. 7098 Kobbe, For. Bur. 10232, 
10240, 10332 Curran: Province of Camarines, For. Bur. 4533 Barredo, For. Bur. 
10653 Curran: Province of Albay, For. Bur. 6678 Pray, For. Bur. 10592 Curran. 
Mindoro, For. Bur. 9863 Merritt. 
Almost universally known as supa, less commonly, and more especially the oil, 
as manapo ; in Albay also known as pauna. 
Endemic. 
Very closely allied to Sindora wallichii Benth. of the Malay Peninsula. 
As to the generic name, the question has been fully discussed by Prain, 25 who 
calls attention to the fact that the earliest figure and description of any species 
in the genus is Caju Galedupa of Rumph. Herb. Amboinense 2: 59, t. 13, on 
which, with Pongam of Rheede Hort. Malabar, 6: t. 3, Lamarck in 1786 based his 
genus Galedupa. The first citation given by Lamarck is to Rumphius’s plate, 
from which also the generic name was taken. Technically, according to strict 
priority, the generic name for the species now placed under Sindora should be 
Galedupa, as Rumphius’s figure is apparently a, Sindora, and by no means the 
same as Pongam of Rheede. To complicate the matter, however, Lamarck’s 
description both of the genus Galedupa, and the species G. indica, applies to 
Pongam of Rheede, as noted by Prain, and not at all to Caju Galedupa of Rum- 
phius. In consideration of this fact I am of the opinion that Galedupa Lam., 
should be referred to Pongamia Vent., and that Sindora should be retained for the 
present genus. The case is not directly covered by the list of nomina conservanda 
of the Vienna Botanical Congress. 
"Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 66 2 (1897) 202, 479. 
