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obviously rests with those who would unite, not with those who can 
distinguish, the trees; till the point is settled the writer feels compelled 
to follow Blume in treating them as distinct. In the Andamans Garapa 
moluGcensis flowers in November and December, 0. obovata flowers in 
March and April. 
LEGUMINOS^. 
Desmodium umbellatum DC. 
Abrds PRECATORIUS Linn. 
Erythrina indica Lamk. 
Janavalia turgida Grab, in Wall. Cat. 
This is the common sea-shore Ganavalia of the Andaman, Nicobar 
and Malayan coasts and is undoubtedly the plant intended by Graham 
as G. turgida Wall. Cat. n. 5534 A, a plant collected by Wallich in 
Penang. Cat. n. 5534 B, from Siam (Herb. Finlay son), is not re¬ 
presented at Calcutta but most probably is, since Graham and Wallich 
thought so, the same plant. G. turgida is certainly not identical with G. 
ensiformis, even if we admit that the Ganavalia gladiata, cultivated in the 
Eastern Hemisphere, is conspeciflc with the American cultivated plant; 
nor is it the same as G. virosa W. & A., with which Mr. Kurz has 
identified it (Journ. As. Sue. Beng. xlv, pt. 2, p. 127) and which the 
writer agrees with Mr. Baker in considering the wild form of Ganavalia 
ensiformis (G. gladiata). The intei’ior of the pod, even more than the 
diflei*ent shape, makes the proposal to treat G. turgida and G. virosa 
as conspeciflc quite impossible. Perhaps the confusion of G. turgida with 
G. virosa may have arisen from the fact that Wall. Cat. 5534 C, from Ava, 
is true G. virosa. A reference, however, to the Lithographed Catalogue 
itself shews that Dr. Wallich only doubtfully refers the Ava plant to 
Graham’s species. Mr. Baker doubtfully refers G. Slocicsii Dalz. & 
Gibs., Bomb. El. 69, to G. turgida ; this is, in the writer’s opinion, highly 
impi’obable because 1., G. turgida seems always strictly confined to 
sea-shores and to the banks of muddy estuaries and never has been 
collected inland; and 2, though it extends from the Salt-lakes near 
Calcutta and from the Sunderbuns at the top of the Bay of Bengal to 
the Indo-Chinese and Malayan Coasts generally, it has not yet been 
found anywhere on the coasts of India proper, of Ceylon, or of the 
Laccadives. 
Though a characteristic sea-shore species, G. txirgida is not con- 
specific with the G. obtusifolia of the coasts of India proper, which ap¬ 
parently does not occur in the Andamans, the Nicobars, or the Malay 
Peninsula—on the shox-es of the Andaman sea—, though it does'occur 
in Java (as pointed out by Prof. Miquel) to which island G. kirgida also 
extends. 
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