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also in Burma. 
India: Anglade (Pulney Hills; A), 25 
(Pulney Hills; fl. and fr.; G); Anstead 13 
(Travancore; fl.; A); Bourne (Madras; fl. and 
fr.; K) (Kodaikanal Ghat; fl.; K); Gamble 
11421 , 14320 (Nilgiri; fl.; K); Hohenacker 
1385 (Nilgiri; fl. and fr.; G); Roxburgh 
(fl.; BM); Stocks et d. (Konkan; fl. and fr.; 
Bri, K, NY); Talbot 793 (Kanara; fl. and fr.; 
K); Thomson (Madras; fl., fr.; G, GH, K); 
Wallich 1647 (fl. and fr.; K), 1647 (1 (Hort. 
Bot. Cal.; fl. and fr.; G); Wight 1871 (Nil- 
giri; fl.; K), 1871 bis (Courtallum; fl. and fr.; 
G, K, NY, Sing, UC). 
Burma: Parkinson 6152 (Northern Shan 
States, Gokteik Gorge; fl.; fr. necessary to dis- 
tinguish with certainty from A. neriifolia var. 
glabra ; K). 
Malay Peninsula: Singapore: Lobb (loc.?; fl.; 
K). 
Australia: Queensland: C. T. White , 8640 
(Brisbane; cult.; fl.; A, Bri). 
United States: California: W alttier (Santa 
Barbara; cult.; fl.; A). 
West Indies: Barbados: Waby 127 (Hast- 
ings; cult.; fl.; F). 
Echites venenata was published by Roxburgh 
without reference to Brown’s species. The plant 
was noted to be called "Ganda-ganeroo” in 
the Tailanga language and to have been do- 
nated by C. Campbell in 1805. 
H. H. Haines (1922:540) states regarding 
this species "Leaves . . . softly hairy beneath 
but more or less glabrescent with age.” 
9a. Alstonia venenata var. pubescens Mona- 
chino, var. nov. 
A forma typica speciei foliis inflorescentiisque 
pubescentibus recedit. 
Type. — /. S. Gamble 13973, India, Madras, 
Gan jam District, W. Sarada, about 300 m. alti- 
tude; 1884; fruiting specimen. (Kew.) 
Distribution. — G rows together with the 
typical form. 
India: Gamble 13973 (type), 15905 (Ma- 
dras, Godavari; fr.; K); H. H. Haines 3366 
(Central Prov., Chanda; fl.; K), 4043 (Orissa, 
Angul; fr.; K), 4876 (Orissa, Bonai; fr.; K); 
Wight 1871 (fr.; mixed with typical A. venen- 
ata in flower; GH). 
10. Alstonia neriifolia D. Don, Prod. Fl. Nep. 
131. 1825. 
Alstonia sericea Blume, Bijdr. 1038. 1826. 
Blab er op us neriifolius A. DC., Prod. 8: 411. 
1844. 
Blab er opus sericeus A. DC., Prod. 8: 411. 
1844. 
Very closely resembling A. venenata var. 
pubescens except for the fruits; glands at leaf 
axil generally longer than in A. venenata, up 
to 3 mm. long; corolla tube shorter, usually 
less than 20 mm. long; lobes of disc usually 
shorter, 0.7- 1.5 mm. long, sometimes with 
faint teeth at either side near base. 
Type.— "Hab. in Nepalia. Wallich ” Num. 
List . 1646. 
Illustrations. — Horticulteur Univ. ( 1845 ) 
6: 37 (as Blab er opus sericeus ; leafy br. and 
infl., fl. analysis; plant said to have been brought 
by Neumann from Madagascar in 1824 and 
cultivated for a long time at Paris). 
Distribution. — India, occasionally culti- 
vated but native probably only north in the 
tropical Himalayan region; the identical species, 
or one very closely resembling it, is also found 
in Java. 
India: Calcut . Hort. Bot. (fl. and fr.; G, K); 
Dalzell (Bombay; cult.; fl. and fr.; K); Griffith 
(fl. and fr.; K); Heifer 23; Hooker (Nepal; 
GH, K); Pierre 5236 (cult.; P); Wallich 1646 
(fl.; K), 1646 B (fr.; G, K). 
Ceylon: Thomson (1845; cult.; fr.; K). 
Malay Peninsula: Dalhonsie (Penang; fl.; 
K). 
Java: Blume (fl. ); Kollmann (1838; fl. ); 
Zollingero 1158 (1844; fl.; G). 
Reunion: Bernier (cult.; fl. and fr.; K). 
Mauritius: Blackburn (cult.; fl.). 
Type of A. sericea . — -"montosis Salak,” Java, 
Blume. 
The Java specimens which have been exam- 
ined have corolla tubes slightly longer (17- 
20 mm.) than those from India ( 12—19 mm.). 
