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lanceolatis subtus viriclibus glabris, 
floribus viridescentibus . ■'^ar. larutensis 
[Perak ; prov. Larut: forsaii etiam in archipelagine Malayana 
apud Priaman], 
It will be noted that the writer is unable to perpetuate the generic rank 
{Eriodendron) assigned by DeCandolle to the Linnean Bombax pentandrum. When 
the differences in the staminal columns of the three ‘species’ here recognised 
are reduced to the simplest possible terms, we observe that in B. pentandrum this 
whorl consists of but one element, the items of which are alternate with the petals ; 
that in B. insigne, likewise, there is but one element, the items of which are opposite 
the petals; that in B. malaharicum, on the other hand, both these elements occur. 
Either, therefore, Bomhax malaharicum and Bomhax insigne typify two genera as 
distinct from each other as Eriodendron is from either; or, as is here proposed, all 
three are congeneric. In another place the writer hopes to show that he is right 
in thinking, with Schumann, that Pachira does not deserve to be removed generi- 
cally from Bomhax ; that he is justified in further reducing Chorisia to Eriodendron, 
and therefore also to Bomhax; and is entitled to believe, with Willdenow, that the 
characters which separate Adansonia from Bomhax are too trivial to be generic. 
On the other hand, it will be noted that the material of some of the forms 
included in B. insigne is not yet complete, and it will be readily understood that 
writers who recognise as distinct the ‘ genera ’ referred to in the preceding paragraph, 
will be still more apt to treat as specifically separable the various forms of B. insigne 
here defined. No work on Indian Botany hitherto published notes B. insigne as 
Indian; the tree, when mentioned, is stated to occur only in Indo-China, 
VI. STERCULIACE^. iv. 
11. Sterculia eubigniosa Vent., var. glabrescens King. Karcondam 
(10); Barren Island (4). 
Andamans and Nicobar coasts, general; the variety only. 
—. Heritiera littoralis Dryand. Narcondam, fruits on beach, E. 
Bay; Barren Island, fruits on beach at Landing-place Cove : not found 
growing in either island. 
VII. TILIACE^. —. 
12. Grewia L.fflviGATA Vahl. Narcondam (11) ; in leaf only. 
Africa ; India, Burma, Malaya ; Australia. 
VIII. RUTACEAil. — . 
13. GltcOSMis pentaphtlla Corr. Narcondam (12). 
India, Indo-China, Malaya. 
IX. BURSERACE^. v. 
14. Garuga pinnata Roxb. Narcondam (13) ; Barren Island (5) ; in 
both islands common. 
India, Burma, Malaya. 
—. Canarium euphtllum Kurz. Narcondam ? 
The leaves of this species occur in Herb. Calcutta, and are given as from 
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