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bases than those of C. obovata, and though of distinctly thinne* texture, neverthe- 
less more resemble these in general shape than they do the leaflets of any hitherto 
known variety of C. moluccensis. They are more obtuse at the apex than is the 
case with C. moluccensis var. elliptica Koord. & Val. ; our tree further differs 
from that well-marked form in having only 2 — i- jugate leaves, just as in C. obovatat 
never 3-jugate leaves. The form most nearly related to var. gangetica appears to 
be the Java tree named provisionally C. moluccensis var. ovalifolia by Reorders 
and Valeton. Our material of this last variety is not, however, sufficiently exten- 
sive for a definite decision to be arrived at ; so far as it goes it indicates that the 
two varieties, gangetica and ovalifolia, are not the same ; in any case no characters 
have been given for var. ovalifolia. According to Schimper, whose very careful 
account of the Strand-flora, based chiefly on Malayan observations, has become 
classical, C. moluccensis in muddy places sends up blind root-suckers, like Son- 
neratia, Avicenniaf etc.* This is not the writer’s recollection with regard to the 
form usually accepted as typical C. moluccensis, so far as the Coco Group is con- 
cerned ; the tree in question there affects rocky headlands only and does not ac- 
company C. obovata into the swamp-forests ; this was also the experience of Kurz 
as regards the tree in the Andamans.f 
28. Carapa obovata Bl. C, moluccensis F. B. I. i. 567 partly, not 
of Lamk. Xylocarpus Granatum F. I. ii. 240. E. D. C 482. 
Everywhere throughout the Sundribuns, on river-banks. 
. Vernac. Dhundol ; Gamur ; Karam Bhola. 
A tree occasionally 40 feet high, usually smaller than the last species ; leaves 
deciduous ; bark light-brown, freely exfoliating in large broad flakes, light-red 
within ; wood reddish-brown much resembling that of the preceding in qualities. 
The fruit is used in tanning j the roots have no root-suckers but form instead 
horizontal thicked sections that protrude through the mud (as in Gengwa) to act 
as respiratory organs. 
Distrib. — S.-E. Asia on banks of muddy sea-creeks. 
XIV.-OLACINEtE. 
36 , Olax Linn. 
29. Olax scandeiis Roxb. ; F. L i. 163 ; F. B. I. i. 575. E. D. o 127, 
Northern forests, 
Vernac. Koko Aru, 
A large woody climber ; properties unimportant. 
Distrib. — S.-E. Asia. 
XV.— CELASTRIXEiE. 
37 . Salacia Linn. 
30. Salacia priiioides DC. ; F, B, 1 . i. 626. Johnia coromandeliana 
F. 1 . i. 169. 
* Schimper: Die indo^malayische Strand-flora, p. 99 (1891), 
t Kurz : Forest Flora of British Burma, i, 226 (1877), 
