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Malaya ; cultivated occasionally in India and the Malay Peninsula, fide Prain. 
Koorders 22 says that in Java it is cultivated for its edible fruit, and thinks it 
probably a native of India. 
2. Cynometra inaequifolia A. Gray Bot. Wilkes U. S. Explor. Exped. (1854) 
473; F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1880) 71; Vid. Phan. Cuming. Philip. (1885) 110, Rev. 
PI. Vase. Filip. (1886) 118; Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) 'Suppl. 63, 3 
(1908) Bot. 82. 
Schotia speciosa Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 356, ed. 2 (1845) 251, ed. 3, 2: 100, 
non Jacq. 
Luzon, Province of Cagayan, Cuming 1297 in Herb. Kew. : Province of Zam- 
bales, For. Bur. 11038 Zschokke: Province of Laguna, Wilkes Expedition in U. S. 
Nat. Hei'b. (type), For. Bur. 10053 Curran: Province of Batangas, For. Bur. 
7629 Curran & Merritt: Province of Bataan, Whitford s. n. : Province of Rizal, 
Merrill 1861, 2671/, For. Bur. 2883 Ahern’s collector, Bur. Sci. 3336 Ramos. 
Native names: Dila-dila, cabilian (Rizal); palanapoy (Zambales) ; balitbitan, 
ex Blanco. 
Endemic ? 
This species has been reported from the Malay Peninsula by Baker 23 and 
Prain, 24 but from the extended description given by the latter it seems to me 
that the form from the Malay Peninsula is distinct from that of Luzon, that is, 
true Cynometra inaequifolia A. Gray. The species is very closely allied to C. 
bijuga Spanoghe, and seems to be distinguishable only by comparatively trivial 
characters, larger, rather more coriaceous leaves which are somewhat pale beneath, 
their apices obscurely broad-acuminate and somewhat retuse, the veins and 
reticulations prominent, not obscure as stated by Prain for this species, and its 
nearly smooth or only slightly rugose pods. 
3. Cynometra bi juga^Spanoghe in Linnaea 15 (1841) 201, nomen; Miq. FI. 
Ind. Bat. 1 1 (1855) 78; Perk. Frag. FI. Philip. (1904) 7. 
Cynometra ramiflora subsp. bijuga Prain ex King in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 66 2 
(1897) 198. 
Luzon, Province of Zambales, Eallier s. n. Leyte, For. Bur. 12727 Rosenbluth. 
Palawan, For. Bur. 3785 Curran. 
Var. mimosoides (Wall.). > 
Cynometra mimosoides Wall. Cat. (1832) No. 5817. 
Cynometra ramiflora var. mimosoides Baker in Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. 2 (1878) 
267; Prain 1. c. 
Panay, Cuming 1652. Mindanao, For. Bur. 11555 Whitford, leaves only. 
What I take to be typical Cynometra bijuga Spanoghe ( C. ramiflora var. hete- 
rophylla Thwaites ) extends, according to Prain, from Ceylon to the Andaman 
Islands, Johore, Perak, Singapore, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, and Timor. As to 
the specific name, Prain suggests that Cynometra mimosoides Wall, should be 
taken up according to strict priority, but like the original publication of C. 
bijuga, C. mimosoides was a nomen nudum. C. bijuga Spanoghe was, however, 
described in 1855, but I have found no record of a printed description of C. 
mimosoides Wall, before the year 1878, and then only as a variety of C. ramiflora. 
The var. mimosoides extends from Ceylon to India and the Andaman Islands. 
22 Meded. ‘s Lands Plantent. 11 (1894) 271. 
23 Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. 2 (1878) 267. 
24 Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 66 2 (1897) 199. 
