DFKI-SLT/copious huggingface dataset:
A BOTANICAL EXCURSION TO PULAU ADANG. VIOLACEAE. Alsodeia hispida, n. sp. Branches hair}', leaves thin herbaceous elliptic acuminate ; base cuneate or acuminate, margins serrate, nerves 7 pairs, slender, midrib nerves and reticulations hairy, 6 inches long, 2J inches wide, petiole J inch long hairy. Flowers in short axillary cymes, shorter than the petiole, and sessile with small ovate bracts, all glabrous. Pedicels jo inch long. Calyx sepals ovate acuminate pubescent, more than half as long as the petals. Petals lanceolate or elliptic, lanceolate ciliate on the edges ^=0 i ncn long. Stamens, filament very short, anther cells elliptic, separate, connective, very large ovate acuminate, no other processes. Pistil longer bottle-shaped narrowed upwards, glabrous. Stigma discoid. Disc hairy. Pulau Adang. RUTACEAE. Glycosmis pentaphylla, Correa. Pulau Eawi. Glycosmis rupestris, Eidl. Pulau Tengah and Pulau Adang. Distribution: Perlis and Ivedah. Atalantia monophylla, Correa. Pulau Tengah. SlMARUBACEAE. Enrycoma longifolia, Jack. Woods, Pulau Eawi. OCHNACEAE. Oclina grandis, Eidl. Pulau Butong. Distribution: Perlis. DlPTEROCARPEAE. Dipterocarpus Hasseltii, Bl. In fruit, Pulau Butong. Dipterocarpus grandiflorus, Blanco. In fruit, Pulau Butong. Vatica cinerea, King. Common medium-sized tree on the seashore. Pulau Eawi and Pulau Adang. Jour. Straits Branch
NATIVE WOODY PLANTS OF THE UNITED STATES 141 Var. glabrescens (Heller) Jeps. (H. glahrescens Heller, Sericotheca glabrescens (Greenm.) Rydb., S. obovata Rydb.), occurring in regions 4, 12, and 13, is a more spreading type. Observations: Black-tailed deer. Of minor importance as browse for livestock. Holodiscus dumostis (Nutt.) Heller. Sericotheca damosa (Nutt.) Rydb., Spiraea durnosa Nutt. Range: 9, 10, 11, 13, 14. Site : Dry, well-drained, sun. Fruit: Follicle. A small to large, compact shrub ; often forms large clumps. Observations: Yosemite cony. Holodiscus glabrescens, see Holodiscus discolor. Holodiscus microphyllus, see Holodiscus discolor. Holodiscus schaflfneri (Rydb.) Standi. Sericotheca schaffneri Rydb. Range: 9, 11. Site: Dry, sun. Fruit: Follicle. A small shrub. Hopea tinctoria, see Symplocos tinctoria. Horsfordia alata (Wats.) Gray. Range: 10. Site : Dry, well-drained, sun. Fruit: Dry carpel. A large shrub ; flowers April-December. Horsfordia newberryi (Wats.) Gray. K'ewberry falsemallow, Abutilon neivherryi Wats. Range: 10. Site: Dry, sun. Fruit : Dry carpel. A small to large shrub with virgate branches ; flowers April-May. Apparently not palatable to livestock. Hosackia balsamifera, see Lotus stipularis. Hosackia macrophylla, see Lotus stipularis. Hosackia stipularis, see Lotus stipularis. Houstonia fasciculata Gray. Range: 11, 17. Site: Dry, sun. Fruit: Capsule. A small, spreading shrub. Hudsonia ericoides L. Gold-heather. Range: 26, 27, 28, 29. Site: Dry, well-drained, sun. Fruit: Capsule. A small, bushy evergreen shrub, often occurs on sandy or rocky soil ; flowers in May ; occurs mainly along the coast. Hudsonia montana Nutt. Range: 27. Site: Dry, sun. Fruit: Capsule. A small, bushy evergreen shrub; very local in occurrence but probably once more widely distributed. Hudsonia tomentosa Nutt. Beach-heather. Range: 23, 24, 26, 27, 28, 29. Site: Dry, well-drained, sun. Fruit : Capsule. A small evergreen shrub; flowers May-July; occurs in sand; intricately branched and matted.
NATIVE WOODY PLANTS OF THE UNITED STATES 269 Symphoricarpos parishii, see Symphoricarpos oreophilus. Symphoricarpos parvifolius, see Symphoricarpos rotundifoUus. Symphoricarpos paucifloriis, see Symphoricarpos albus. Symphoricarpos racemosus, see Symphoricarpos albus. Symphoricarpos rotundifolius, Gray. aoundleaf snowberry. S. glaucus Eastw., S. parvifolius Eastw., S, vaccinioides Rydb., S. tetonensis Nels. Range: 4, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14. Site: Dry, well-drained, sun. Fruit: Berry, available July-September. A small, straggling shrub ; flowers May-June. Stomach records: Varied thrush, California quail. Observations: Chipmunk, California mule deer. Fair to good sheep and goat browse. Symphoricarpos symphoricarpos, see Symphoricarpos orUculatus. Symphoricarpos tetonensis, see Symphoricarpos rotundifolius. Symphoricarpos utahensis Rydb. Ftak snowberry. Range: 9, 12, 13. Site: Dry, well-drained, sun. Fruit: Berry. A small shrub. Symphoricarpos vaccinioides, see Symphoi-icarpos rotundifolius. Symphoricarpos vulgaris, see Symphoricarpos orbiculatus. Symplocos tinctoria (L.) L'Her. Sweetleaf. Hopea tinctoria L. Range : 27, 28, 29, 30. Site: Dry, well-drained, moist, sun, shade. Fruit: Drupe, available August-September. A large shrub to small or large tree ; semievergreen ; flowers March-May, the two forms occurring along the coast and in the mountains respectively are by some considered speciflcally distinct. Stomach records: Phoebe. Relished by cattle. Talinopsis frutescens Gray. Range : 11. Site: Dry, sun. Fruit: Capsule. A small shrub. Tamala borbonia, see Persea. borbonia. Tamala humilis, see Persea humilis. Tamala pubescens, see Persea pubescens. Tamarix gallica L. Tamarisk. Range : 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, 13, 16, 19, 22, 25, 29, 30. Site: Dry, well-drained, moist, sun. Fruit: Capsule. A large shrub to small tree; foliage comparatively sparse; introduced from Europe but more or less naturalized in the regions indicated ; withstands continued drought well ; not easily hurt by alkali in the soil ; generally free from insects and disease; thicket forming; grows rapidly from cuttings. Taxodium spp. Baldcypress. Stomach records (in addition to speciflc records) : Eleven species of birds, including wild turkey. Observations (in addition to speciflc records) : Texas fox squirrel. Taxodium ascendens Brongn. Pondcypress. T. imbricarium (Nutt.) Harp. Range: 29, 30. Site: Well-drained, moist, sun. Fruit: Cone. A large tree. Stomach records: Little brown crane.
36 A. Band: Symplocaceae. Agathis Salisb. 1. Asatliis philippinensis Warb. Island of Paragua, E-wi-ig River (Merrill no. 749; in flower in February 1903). Symplocaceae by A. Brand. Symplocos Jacq. 1. Symplocos Elmeri Brand n. sp. Ranuili ferruginei. Folia coriacea, 12 — 14 cm longa, 4 — 6 cm lata, oblonga vel elliptica, integerrima subtus ubique ferrugineo-hirta, breviter apiculata, basi cuneata vel subrotundata; costa supra impressa. Petiolus circa 2 cm longus. Racemi compositi petiolo 4 — 6plo longiores, pedicellis fructibus paulo brevioribus. Corolla ignota. Fructus circa 10 cm longus, ovoideus, superne paulum angustatus, brunneus, sub lente brevissime hirtellus, lobis calycinis rotundatis sericeis discum hirtellum subpatenter superantibus. Fructus vel 4vel 1-locularis (in hoc semen abortivum curvatum, superne acuminatum; itaque embryo verisimiliter curvatus). Luzon, Prov. of Rizal, Tanay (Merrill no. 2356; May in fruit). Speciei S. patenti maxime affinis. 2. Symplocos feitugiiica Roxb. var. salaccensis (Blume) Brand. Dinagat I si. (Ahern no. 440). 3. Syiiiploe4s polyandra (Blanco) Brand. Luzon, Prov. of Tayabas, Pagbalao (Mek-gull no. 1949; with fruit in April 1903); Prov. Rizal, Antipolo (Mki-koll no. 1697; with fruit in March 1903); Luzon Central (Loher; no. 5072).
44 J. Perkins: Taxaceae. Sarcochilus R. Br. 1. Sarcochilus sp. (= Thrixspermum sp. in Engl, und Prantl, Pflzfam. 11, VI, p. 218). Luzon, Prov. Pampanga, Arayat (Mekkilliio. 1416; March 1903). Taxaceae by J. Perkins. Podocarpus THER. 1. Podocarpus iiiibrlcatus Blume var. Cuuiiiiiiii (Pari) Pilger. Luzon Central (Loher no. 4852). The variety Cuminyii differs very slightly from Podocarpus imbricatus and can perhaps be united with it. 2. Podocarjuis iieriifoliiis Don. Luzon, Prov. Tayabas, Pagbalao (Merrill no. 1992; in flower in April 1903). Podocarpus neriifolius Don is a widely distributed species, being found, according to Pilger, in Central Asia, China, Java, Sumatra, Celebes, Borneo, Moluccas and New Guinea. It has, however, never before been recorded from the Philippines, where, in April 1903, it was collected by Mr. Merrill in Luzon, Prov. Tayabas, Pagbalao. Phyllocladus Rich. 1. riiylloclailus protractus (Warb) Pilger. Luzon (Loher no. 5203). This plant from Lohek's collection (no. 5203) was determined as Phyllocladus hypophylla Hook. f. The two species resemble each other somewhat, but may be easily distinguished, as the leaves of Phyllocladus protractus are never of a bluish-white on the under surface. Taxus Linn. 1. Taxus baccata Linn, subsp. Wallichiana (Zucc) Pilukl-. Luzon Central, Mangilquiran (Loher no. 4850).
Leguminosae. 13 This plant is easily distinguished from Bauhinia ferruginea Roxb. by the shape and length of the calyx -tube, the externally thinly pubescent petals, and the leaves which are beneath pubescent. Sect. Y Casparia. 13. Bauhinia Kappleri Sagot. Middle Luzon, Arayat (Warburg no. 13743). Urban in his extremely interesting morphological investigations in regard to the genus Bauhinia (in Ber. deutsch. bot. Ges. Ill 1885] p. 83), takes occasion to describe the peculiar species Bauhinia Krugii. He states that the specimens he had examined evidently came from cultivated shrubs. Later he discovered that Sagot (in Ann. s. nat. 6. ser. XIII 1882] p. 317), three years before, had described the same species from Guiana (cf. Urb. Symb. antill. I 1899] p. 315). Subsequently there came to the Berlin Herbarium a specimen of Bauhinia from the Calcutta Gardens, sent by Dr. Prain, under the name of Bauhinia monandra S. Kurz. B. monandra S. Kurz (in Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal. XLII, 2 1873] p. 73) was based upon a plant which Beandis collected in Burma. Dr. Harms informs me, that he is of the opinion, that very probably Bauhinia monandra S. Kurz was identical with Bauhinia Krugii Urban, but that the matter can only be definitely settled after a comparison has been made with the original. The description of Kurz answers very well for Urban's species. As in America the species only occurs in cultivation, the home of the plant may possibly be Burma. Unfortunately Warburg, in the material he collected in the Philippines, does not mention if he found the plant in a wild or in a cultivated state. Very recently this species has been found by Busse in East Africa, near Dar-es-salam, where it is cultivated on account of its beautiful flowers. In the Sandwich Islands it is also planted, as is proved by a specimen collected by Hildebrand bearing the label Bauhinia variegata (Hort. Honolulu). Urban says, that the species is intermediate between sections Casparia and Phanera. It is placed by Taubert (Engl-prantl, Pflzfam. Ill, 3 p. 151) in the section Casparia. The typical representatives of this section, especially distinguished by having only one fertile stamen, are without
Synonymy of Symphorema. 3 of the Verbenaceae in Engler's Pflanzenfani. vol. IV, 3, p. 180, introduces apparently the same plant under the name of Symphorema Cumingianum Bri quet. The synonymy is as follows: Symphoreiiia luzonicum (Blanco) Villar in Blanco Flora de Filipinas vol. IV, nov. append, p. 162 (1880). Scxegleeivia luzonensis Turcz. in Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscou II, p. 212 (1862). Litsea luzonica Blanco in Flora de Filipinas ed. II, p. 284 (1845). Symphorema Cumingianum, Briq. in Engler's Pflanzenfam. vol. IV, 3 p. 180. Balibai Blanco in Flora de Filipinas ed. I, p. 406 (1837). Symphorema involucratum Llanos non Roxb. in Fl. Filip. ed. Ill, vol. IV, p. 105. I have examined the following specimens: Luzon, Prov. Laguna (Cuming no. 648); Manila, Tanauan, at the base of Makiling (Wichura no. 1794 in flower in May); Middle Luzon, San Francisco del Monte (Loher no. 4456 in flower in November); Bosoboso, Morong (Loher no. 4455 in flower in March); Mindoro Island, Palauan (Merrill no. 954 in bud in April). This plant is also in the Vienna herbarium with the inscription: "Prov. Ilocos del Norte (Ylede Luzon)? Entre 1236 et 1237 coll. Cunning. The numbers of Vidal's collection which I have not seen are: Luzon, Prov. Manila, San Mateo (VAL no. 501); Prov. Tayabas Unisan (Vidal no. 848). I have called the species luzonicum, not "hixonica" as spelled by Villar; the generic name is a neuter, being derived from ovid6qyfia (cumulus) in allusion to the congested bracts and flowers. According to Villar the plant is widely distributed in Luzon. The Philippine species has glabrous leaves, while in both the other species, Symphorema polyandrum Wight and Symphorema involuc-miwa Roxb, the leaves are densely pubescent, those oi S. polyandrum being large and elliptical, and those of S. involucratum small and ovate.
I. The synonymy of the Philippine species of Symphorema by J. Perkins. In 1863 TURCZANINOW published the description of a plant of Cuming's, in Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscou II, p. 212 (1863), giving it the name of Scxegleewia in honor of Serious Sczegleew. The new genus was recognized by Turczaninow a belonging to the Verbenaceae and has, as he says, the habit of the Sphenodesmaceae. The plant, being from Luzon, was named Scxegleewia higonensis. Bentham and Hooker perceived that Scxegleewia must be united with Sympliorema and cite Cumesg's number 648, on page 1159, vol. II of Genera Plantarum. In both his Revision, p. 212 (1886), and in his Synopsis, p. 202 (1883), VIDAL agrees with the view of Bentham and Hooker, and in his Flora Forestal t. 75, Fig. F gives a drawing of the plant. Llanos, in his Revis. etc. in Mem. Acad, cienc. Mad. 1858 reprinted in Fl. Filipinas ed. 3. IV. p. 105, has recognized, that Blanco in his Flora had described a species of Sginphorema under the name of a Lauraceous plant, and he identifies the Litsaea luzonica of Blanco with Symjjhorema invohicrahtm Spreng. Villar, in Fl. Filipinas ed. 3. IV. nov. append, p. 162 (1880), accepts the identification of Llanos, and calls the plant Sgmphorema luzonica and quotes as synonyms Litsaea luzonica Blanco and Symphorema involucratum Llanos (not Roxb). It seems strange, that Father Blanco, in his 2' edition of the Flora de Filipinas, should have described this plant as belonging to the Lauraceae, a family unit' different in nearly all its characters J. Perkins, Fragmenta florae Pliilippinae.
III. Marantaceae of the Philippines. With 3 plates and 31 figures. By J. PERKINS. Flowers very irregular, hermaphrodite, with calyx and corolla. Sepals free, equal or subequal. Corolla-tube short, or more frequently long, rarely wanting; lobes colored or white, the exterior lobe usually larger and at the apex cucullate. Only one fertile stamen; anther 1celled with a petaloid appendage. Inner pair of staminodia always present, the one cucullate and including the style before flowering, the other callose. Outer staminodia 1 — 2, petaloid. Ovary inferior 1 — 3-celled; cells 1-ovules. Style simple, recurved at the point, inclosed in the cucullate-staminode, at flowering springing out and striking against the callose staminode. Fruit a loculicidal capsule, or an indehiscent nut or berry. Seeds 1 — 3, arillate. — Perennial herbs sometimes high. Stem short or long. Leaves distichous. Inflorescence often large. Flowers almost always in pairs. About 300 species in the Tropics of the whole world. Key to the genera. A. Ovary always distinctly 3-celled, 2 of the cells apparently empty (ovules at first present, obvious) Tribe I. Phrynieae Peters, a) The outer staminodia 2. 1. Flowers in pairs; bracteoles small, incrassate; bracts caducous 1. Donax Lour. 2. Flowers solitary 2. Monophrynium K. Schum. J. Perkins, Fragmenta florae Philippinae. Q
68 J. Perkins: b) The outer staminodia solitary (Flowers in pairs) 3. Phacelophrynium K. Schum. B. Ovary 1 -celled Tribe 11. Maranteae Peters. 4. Maranta L. 1. Donax Lour. Donax Lour. Fi. cochinch. p. 14 (1790); K. Schumann in Pflanzenreich, Lief. IV, p. 32 (1902). Clinogyne Salisb. in Trans. Hortic. Soc. I, p. 276 (1812). Phrynium Roxb. Fl. ind. I, p. 2 (1832). Sepals ovate -lanceolate, relatively not large. Corolla -tube moderately long, with rather large, oblong lobes. Staminal-tube elongated; outer staminodia large, petaloid, obovate; cucullate-staminode not appendiculate; callose-staminode (lip) short; anthers with a large petal-like appendage. Ovary 3-celled, silky; cells 1-ovuled. Capsule subglobose. Seeds subglobose with dorsal transverse furrows and a basal aril. — Perennial herbs or undershrubs, erect. Stems below simple, above branched. Leaves shortly petioled; sheaths elongated; ligula short. Inflorescence in Philippine specimen simple; pairs of flowers solitary, pedunculate; bracteoles in pairs. Species 2, in East India and Malay Archipelago. 1. D. aruiidastruiu Lour. D. anmdastmm Lour. Fl. cochinch. p. 15 (1790); K. Schumann in Pflanzenreich, Lief. IV, p. 33 (1902). Phrynium dichotomum Roxb. in Asiat. Research. XI, p. 324 (1810). Clinogyne dichotoma Salisb. in Trans. Hortic. Soc. I, p. 276 (1812). Thalia dealbata Hort. ex Link, Jahresber. I, p. 3, 21 (1820). Maranta dichotoma Wall. Cat. no. 6615 (1828). Maranta arundinacea Blanco, FI. Filip. ed. I, p. 7 (1837), non L. Stem about 3 m high; branches numerous, slender. Leaves oblong, acute or shortly acuminate, at the base rounded or acute, on both sides glabrous, usually 20 cm long and 6,5 cm wide, petiolate; petiole about 6 mm long, terete, callous, above minutely hairy; ligula short, glabrous. Raceme terminal, simple, about 17 cm long; bracts lanceolate, about 8, 4 cm long. Pairs of flowers solitary, peduncles about 2 cm long; terminal flowers with a pedicel 9 mm long; bracteoles 2, glandular, 3 mm long. Ovary silky. Sepals lanceolate-ovate, 6 mm long, glabrous. Corolla-tube white, 8 nun long; lobes lanceolate 2,5 cm long. Staminal-tube 12 mm long;
70 J. Perkins: racemes about 6 cm long; bracts about 10, imbricate, ovate-oblong, obtuse, glabrous, 9 mm long. Flowers solitary, after anthesis sessile on a subglobular cushion; dorsal bracts two -keeled. Ovary silky, S-celled. Sepals lanceolate, 4 mm long. Corolla-tube 3,5 mm long; lobes lanceolate, 5 mm long. Outer staminodia two, resembling the callous -staminode; cucuuate-staminode much shorter, with a lateral subauriculate lobe. (Plate I, fig. A — F) Luzon, no locality given (Haenke, Type, herb. Prag); Prov. Tayabas near Sampaloc (Warburg no. 12921); Middle Luzon, near Cabunganan (Warburg no. 14068). 3. Phacelophrynium K. Schum. Pjianclnphnjnimn K. Schumann in Pflanzenreich, LIEFIV, p. 120 (1902). Phrijnium Blume, Enum. pi. Java I, p. 37 pro parte minima (1827). Sepals equal, subovate, not large. Corolla-tube short, lobes oblong. Outer staminode solitary, petal-like, spatulate or obovate; callous-staminode similar and slightly smaller, with an oblique villous callus; cucullate-staminode shorter, with a broad lateral appendage. Ovary 3-celled, cells often all fertile. Capsule 3-, rarely 2-seeded, triangular, three -valved. Seeds triangular, convex on the dorsal side, irregularly grooved, with a deeply two-lobed aril. — Perennial herbs, with basal leaves. Leaves large, petioles long. Inflorescence pauicled, crowded or spreading, interrupted, often formed by fasciculated spikes; bracts distichous. Flowers geminate, pedicellate, common peduncle wanting. Species 6, in the Malay Peninsula, the Sunda and Philippine Islands. Key to the species. A. Panicles more than one, terminal, much elongated. Sepals 4 mm long. Corolla-tube very short; lobes a little longer than the calyx. L Jinterrnptum. B. Panicles solitary, congested. Sepals 10 mm or more long. Corolla longer than the calyx. 2. 7. hractcosiim. 1. Pliacelophryiiium iiitcitiiptum (Warb. ms) K. Schumann. Phacelophrynium interruptum (Warb. ms) K. Schumann in Pflanzenreich" Lief. IV, p. 121 (1902). Pliryviym hiirmiphim Warb. in Mons. ined.
76 J. Perkins: Keinwanitiodciidron. Merriuii is of a woody consistency, while that of Lansium domesticity is leathery. The fine pubescence of Reinivardtiodendroii occurs also in lainsium do)iesticuni. The fruit of the other species of Lansium seems to be unknown, so that perhaps the woody pericarp of R. Merrill is a distinguishing character. It is interesting to observe that all three of the new genera which K00RDER.S has described from Celebes (curiously all ending in dendron) Wallaceodendroii Koordersiodendron and Rcimvardtiodendron, occur in the Philippines. This furnishes still another evidence of the relation existing between the flora of the Philippines and that of Celebes,
Anisoptera] XVII. DIPTEROCARPACEAE 67 Fig. 29. —Anisoptera glabra, Kurz. 1/2. 1, A. glabra, Kurz, F, Fl. i. 112. Ven. Thin kadu, Burm. Evergreen glabrous, except the pubescent inflorescence, -vrood hard, dark olive-green. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic-obloug. Fruiting-calyx-tube much constricted at the mouth, the 2 larger segments oblanceolatej with 3 prominent longitudinal nerves, joined at right angles by conspicuous transverse veins. Pegu. Martaban, Cambodia and Cochinchina. FL April, May. 2. A. oblonga, Dyer (Shorea nervosa, Kurz). Tenasserim. Young shoots and and leaves on tip nerves beneath with scattered tufts of minute stellate hairs. 3. HOPEA, Roxb.: Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 308. Stipules small or minute early deciduous. Fl. in unilateral spikes or racemes, arranged in ample racemose panicles, calyx often glabrous, petals always hairy outside. Calyx segments imbricate, the two outer growing out into thin membranous wings as the fruit ripens. Stamens 15, of which lU in 5 pairs are episepalous, in a few species 10, anther cells equal, connective prolonged into a long awn. Stylopodium generally large. Seeds without albumen, cotyledons thick, fleshy, concave, one enclosing the other, both bifid to the base. Radicle and petioles of cotyledons embedded in a groove between the lobes of the outer cotyledon, while the lignified placenta with the remains of dissepiments intrudes between the lobes of the inner, they are filled with starch and oil, the former generally prevailing. Species 46, one in New Guinea, Resin ducts in the pith 8-12 at the base of a leaf-bearing internode. The 2 lateral leaf traces run a bhort distance only through the bark. Sect. L — Euhopea. Secondary nerves not more than 20 pair, not approximate. A. Calyx grey-tomentose. 1. H. odorata, Eoxb., Cor. PL t. 210. Vern. Thingan Burm. Evergreen, wood yellowish-brown, close-and even-grained, very durable. Glabrous, except inflorescence. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, secondary nerves 12 pair. Fl. fragrant, in axillary grey-tomentose panicles, petals ciliate at margin, anthers oblong. Ovary gradually narrowed into conical stylopcdium and long cylindrical style. Ovary and stylopodium puberulous. Moist forests in the southern portion of the Eastern Peninbula, from Pegu and Tenasserim to Cochinchina. Andanians. Also reported from Chittagong. Not gregarious, but scattered in mixed forests. Fl. March, April. Fruit May, June. 2. H. parviflora, Beddome, FL Sylv. t. 7. The Ironvood of Malabar. Vern, Bovumara, Kan. ; NlrJcongu, Tinnevelli Differs from 1 by petals not ciliate, anthers small orbicular, ovary and stylopodium glabrous, stigma 3-fid, stylopodium ovoid, constricted at base. Moist forests of the Western G-hats, from South Kanara southwards. Fl. March. 3. H. oblongifolia, Dyer. Mergui. Secondary nerves 10 pair, between them a multitude of fine veins, closely reticulate, stylopodium cylindric. 4. H. Helferi, Brandis (Vatica Melferi, Dyer). Mergui, 60 miles inland, branchlets tomentose. Leaves from a cordate unequal-sided base, oblong. FL pedicelled in terminal panicles, ovary glabrous.