OF ttiE EASTERN HIMALAYA. 
26 B 
Stamina 10, ad disci marginem inserta ; filamenta episepalia epipetalibus 
longiora, subulata, glabra, petalorum dimidium superantia. Ovarium 
1 mm. longum, 5-loculare, glabrum vel minute-pubescens, stylo robusto 
glabro 2 mm. longo, stigmate oapitato 5-lobo. Frucfus 5 mm. 
diametiens, drupa, pyrenis seepius 1-2 subglobosis lignosis, testa Crustacea. 
Sikkim Himalaya at an elevation of 1,500-5,000 ft. This species 
of Garuga seems to have been collected first in Sikkim by the late Sir 
George King in 1875, (No. 2385 King! 1,500 ft., without precise 
locality). On the sheet is written in his handwriting ? Garuga but 
not pinnata; get flowers. The next record is that of Mr. J. S. 
Gamble — Ghumbati, 2,500 ft.. No. 600 ! Then Dungboo, King^s native 
collector, supplied specimens from Kyang Jhora 2,000 ft., marked Big 
tree, 50 ft., fruit ; Dungboo says flowers in March without leaves.’’^ 
All these are in mature fruit only and no flowers evidently had been 
secured, when some years later specimens were sent to Kew for 
comparison with the material there. These were returned with the 
following note by Dr. Stapf attached to Gamble No.^ 600. 1 think 
this is a new species of Garuga, It differs from G. pinnata in the 
long slender panicles, in the small fruit which is supported by the 
persistent calyx, the tube of which is much shorter than in G. pinnata. 
We have exactly the same plant from the Nilgherries {Gardener') and 
Hb, Wight 398-2 ; and possibly also Wall, H. 1-8485 D. belongs to it 
(in flower only 
On examining the specimens of Garuga in the Calcutta Herbarium 
I find one Nilgherry sheet — no collector's name or number— which has 
the long panicles and small fruits of the Sikkim plant. There are 
unfortunately no flowers. Our Wallichian sheet 8485 is F. and is an 
undoubted Garuga pinnata Roxb. collected according to the Catalogue 
in the Calcutta Botanic Garden. 8485 D. according to the same 
Catalogue is a mixture of Hardwar and Sylhet specimens. Evidently 
no flowering specimens were secured by Sir George King and the 
species remained unpublished. This year the native collectors of the 
Lloyd Botanic Garden, Darjeeling, have brought in (under No. 4169 
Kafi !) flow^ering specimens of a tall, tree collected near Sittong in the 
month of April at 5,000 ft. which in leaf and inflorescence are identical 
with Gamble No. 600. The flower is that of Garuga but very distinct 
from that of Garuga pinnata. In the absence of flowers it is diflScult 
to say whether the Nilgherry and certain small fruited Javan specimens 
are conspecific. I think it better meanwhile to regard the distribution 
