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DISPENSARIES IN RAJPUTANA.
105
Fund and Private non-aided Dispensaries of Rajputana for the year 1915—contd.
Miscellaneous
receipts
(to
include sale of
securities).
11
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Total
receipts.
12
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EXPENDITURE.
SALARIES.
Medical
officers.
13
2,670
899
254
950
540
540
787
565
540
7,745
1,962
810
730
3,502
1,646
810
810
426
3,692
3,900
2,100
840
2,948
1,650
615
756
1,056
450
636
894
320
427
814
589
1,056
480
1,419
880
900
540
656
17,086
4,325
905
701
687
698
7,316
Nurses.
14
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Inferior
servants.
15
2,705
356
497
258
360
298
300
265
252
5,291
1,584
406
387
2,377
760
192
192
192
1,336
1,820
549
936
2,133
637
342
295
330
372
318
352
354
341
360
300
351
348
341
288
296
351
331
8,440
890
420
166
167
163
1,806
MEDICINES.
European.
16
3,868
304
273
295
457
255
243
224
289
6,208
1,522
405
284
2,211
251
139
92
98
580
1,000
955
898
2,979
979
486
233
306
263
404
222
192
295
283
272
219
298
1,548
246
267
350
384
10,226
1,534
515
233
288
236
2,806
Bazaar.
17
141
8
45
37
22
18
9
23
1
304
122
38
22
182
43
19
23
23
108
77
48
158
109
32
24
28
16
18
39
21
12
23
22
16
9
37
82
18
9
6
32
553
23
16
9
2
2
52
Diet.
18
3,535
119
247
189
137
147
144
77
46
4,641
616
56
...
672
156
18
6
7
187
173
37
173
1,183
203
144
66
52
68
64
49
124
72
60
41
67
96
77
49
27
57
100
2,599
237
47
...
...
...
284
Miscel-
laneous
charges.
19
789
115
211
203
223
169
144
132
112
2,098
916
113
51
1,080
106
71
35
46
258
186
134
90
372
135
44
43
47
48
39
50
39
39
50
56
50
53
87
56
50
76
48
1,382
214
65
39
45
45
408
Buildings
or
Repairs.
20
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84
84
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Invest-
ments.
21
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Total Ex-
penditure.
22
13,708
1,801
1,527
1,932
1,739
1,427
1,627
1,286
1,324
26,371
6,722
1,828
1,474
10,024
2,962
1,249
1,158
792
6,161
7,156
3,823
3,095
9,724
3,636
1,655
1,421
1,807
1,219
1,500
1,588
1,041
1,197
1,589
1,274
1,752
1,312
3,554
1,537
1,549
1,380
1,551
40,286
7,223
1,968
1,148
1,189
1,144
12,672
Closing
Balance.
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O 2
106
DISPENSARIES IN RAJPUTANA.
STATEMENT H.—Showing the Income and Expenditure of State, Public, Local
DISTRICT.
1
MEWAR
.
.
PARTABGARH
.
BANSWARA
.
KUSHALGARH .
DUNGARPUR .
Name of Dispensary.
2
NATIVE
STATES—concluded.
Lansdowne Hospital
.
.
Chitorgarh . .
.
.
Rashmi
.
.
.
.
Sarara
.
.
.
.
.
Saran . . . . .
Nathdwara
.
.
.
.
.
Jehazpur
.
.
.
.
.
Bhilwara
.
.
.
.
.
Kapasin
.
.
.
.
.
Sadrikhurd
.
.
.
.
.
Mandalgarh
.
.
.
.
.
Udaipur Railway Dispensary .
Rajnagar
.
.
.
.
.
Untala
.
.
.
.
.
TOTAL .
Partabgarh
.
.
.
.
.
Banswara . . . . .
Garhi
.
.
.
.
.
TOTAL .
Kushalgarh
.
.
.
.
.
Dungarpur
.
.
.
.
.
Sagwara
.
.
.
.
.
TOTAL .
Adams Memorial Hospital, Abu
Abu Road
.
.
.
.
.
TOTAL .
Deoli
.
.
.
.
.
Kherwara
.
.
.
.
.
TOTAL NATIVE STATES .
PROVINCIAL
TOTAL,
CLASS
A (GENERAL DISPENSARIES) .
B.—HOSPITALS AND DIS-
PENSARIES FOR FEMALES.
NATIVE STATES.
Jaswant Female Hospital, Jodh-
pur
. . . . .
Bharatpur Female Hospital .
Lady Dufferin Hospital, Alwar .
Walter Zenana Hospital, Tonk .
Victoria Hospital, Kotah .
Walter Female Hospital, Udaipur
PROVINCIAL TOTAL, CLASS B
(FEMALE DISPENSARIES) .
COMBINED PROVINCIAL
TOTAL . . .
INCOME.
Cash
balance.
3
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931
931
499
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1,430
4,175
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4,175
GOVERNMENT
CONTRIBUTION.
As
salary.
4
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2,248
604
2,852
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2,852
10,797
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10,797
Other-
wise.
5
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783
346
1,129
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1,129
5,408
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5,408
Local Fund con-
tributions.
6
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175
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Municipal Fund
contributions.
7
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96
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96
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96
3,746
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...
3,746
Interest on in-
vestments.
8
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175
175
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175
1,021
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...
1,021
SUBSCRIPTIONS.
Euro-
pean.
9
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435
5
440
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440
440
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440
Native.
10
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587
22
609
1,504
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2,113
4,708
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4,708
DISPENSARIES IN RAJPUTANA.
107
Fund and Private non-aided Dispensaries of Rajputana for the year 1915—concld.
Miscellaneous
receipts
(to
include sale of
securities).
11
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22
22
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22
46
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46
Total
receipts.
12
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6,254
6,254
2,003
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8,257
30,341
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30,341
EXPENDITURE.
SALARIES.
Medical
officers.
13
4,785
1,056
752
902
893
600
850
1,520
651
503
482
513
773
795
15,075
1,200
1,130
855
1,985
480
809
480
1,289
1,500
604
2,104
180
209
1,66,881
1,84,678
4,727
960
1,440
700
5,049
...
12,876
1,97,554
Nurses.
14
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322
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...
1,343
1,463
...
240
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...
...
...
240
1,703
Inferior
servants.
15
2,292
502
242
193
182
420
399
527
229
221
304
287
254
264
6,316
348
540
228
768
144
508
324
832
1,176
216
1,392
436
260
70,363
76,325
1,471
1,152
1,392
1,720
1,457
...
7,192
83,517
MEDICINES.
European.
16
7,046
1,077
297
440
471
512
1,014
1,070
557
207
451
251
870
879
15,142
1,428
912
452
1,364
300
...
316
316
783
346
1,129
890
375
98,750
1,06,212
844
1,557
1,012
350
339
...
4,102
1,10,314
Bazaar.
17
337
78
47
37
36
36
46
50
29
17
44
7
38
26
828
177
98
26
124
36
19
46
65
116
50
166
27
38
6,479
7,166
26
19
57
24
32
...
158
7,324
Diet.
18
2,777
292
23
...
68
...
19
234
106
...
35
...
23
102
3,679
53
45
6
51
...
17
6
23
236
5
241
100
56
34,994
36,864
108
657
523
100
274
...
1,662
38,526
Miscel-
laneous
charges.
19
1, 501
155
53
73
175
36
218
180
134
30
43
57
72
113
2,840
4
108
54
162
36
138
81
219
365
136
501
234
99
29,803
33,806
77
304
206
48
104
...
739
34,545
Buildings
or
Repairs.
20
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45
45
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17,898
17,957
...
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...
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...
17,957
Invest-
ments.
21
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Total Ex-
penditure.
22
18,738
3,160
1,414
1,645
1,825
1,604
2,546
3,581
1,706
978
1,359
1,115
2,030
2,179
43,880
3,532
2,833
1,621
4,454
996
1,491
l,238
2,789
4,176
1,357
5,533
1,867
1,037
426,511
464,471
7,253
4,889
4,630
2,942
7,255
...
26,969
491,440
Closing
Balance.
23
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721
721
136
...
857
3,997
...
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...
3,997
108
DISPENSARIES IN RAJPUTANA
STATEMENT J.—Showing the Account of Invested Capital of the Dispensaries in Rajputana
during the year 1915.
No.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
Names of Dispensaries.
Ajmer
.
.
.
.
.
Kakri
.
.
.
.
.
Pisangan . . . . .
Ramsar
.
.
.
.
.
Deolia . . . . .
Beawar
.
.
.
.
.
Todgarh . . . . .
TOTAL . . . . .
Abu and Abu Road
.
.
GRAND TOTAL.
Balance on
1st January
1915.
5,500
...
...
2,500
500
...
...
8,500
5,000
13,500
Invested
during the
year.
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
TOTAL.
5,500
...
...
2,500
500
...
...
8,500
5,000
13,500
Securities
sold.
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Deposits
withdrawn.
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Balance on
31st Decem-
ber 1915.
5,500
...
...
2,500
500
...
...
8,500
5,000
18,500
Statement No. XIV (Vital).—Showing the Sickness
and Mortality among Prisoners of all classes in the
Jails and Subsidiary Jails in Rajputana during the
year 1915.
I P / Q B 1 0
SCIENTIFIC MEMORIES
BY MEDICAL OFFICERS OF THE ARMY OF INDIA.
EDITED BY
SURGEON- GENERAL ROBERT HARVEY, M. D. , C. B. , LL. D. ,
DIRECTOR GENERAL, INDIAN MEDICAL SERVICE.
PART XII
1901. 1 — O n t h e c h a r a c t e r s a n d R e l a t i o n s h i p s o f A f z e l i a ( S m i t h ) . — M a j o r D . P r a i n , I . M . S . , S u p e r i n t e n d e n t , R o y a l B o t a n i c G a r d e n , S i b p u r , e t c . ( P a g e 1 ) .
2 . — I n o c u l a t i o n o f M a l a r i a b y A n o p h e l e s . —C a p t a i n C . F . F e a r n s i d e , I . M . S . , S u p e r i n t e n d e n t , C e n t r a l P r i s o n , R a j a m u n d r i , ( P a g e 1 9 )
3 . — Z o o l o g i c a l G l e a n i n g s f r o m t h e R o y a l I n d i a n M a r i n e S u r v e y s h i p I n v e s t i - g a t o r . — M a j o r A . W . A l c o c k , I . M . S . , S u p e r i n t e n d e n t o f t h e I n d i a n M u s e u m a n d P r o f e s s o r o f Z o o l o g y i n t h e M e d i c a l C o l l e g e o f C a l c u t t a , f o r m e r l y S u r g e o n N a t u r a l i s t t o t h e I n d i a n M a r i n e S u r v e y , ( P a g e 3 5 . )
4 . — S o m e O b s e r v a t i o n s o n S p i r i l l u m F e v e r , a s s e e n i n t h e M o n k e y — M a c a c u s R a d i a t u s . — C a p t i a n G e o r g e L a m b , I . M . S . ( R e s e a r c h L a b o r a t o r y , B o m b a y ) , ( P a g e 7 7 . )
5 . — O n t h e A n a t o m y o f t h e r o o t s o f P h œ n i x p a l u d o s a R o x b . — L i e u t e n a n t A . T . G a g e , I . M . S . , C u r a t o r o f t h e H e r b a r i u m a t t a c h e d t o t h e R o y a l B o t a n i c G a r d e n , S i b p u r , n e a r C a l c u t t a , ( P a g e 1 0 3 . )
6 . — O n s o m e P r a c t i v a l m e t h o d s o f S a n i t a t i o n i n I n d i a w i t h s p e c i a l r e f e r e n c e t o C a n t o n m e n t s . — M a j o r E r n e s t R o b e r t s , I . M . S . , ( p a g e 1 1 3 . )
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SCIENTIFIC MEMOIRS
BY
MEDICAL OFFICERS OF THE ARMY OF INDIA.
EDITED BY
SURGEON-GENERAL ROBERT HARVEY, M.D., C.B., LL.D.,
DIRECTOR GENERAL, INDIAN MEDICAL SERVICE.
PART XII.
1901.
1 .
— On the Characters and Relationships of Afzelia ( Smith) .—Major D. Prain,
I.M.S., Superintendent, Royal Botanic Garden, Sibpur, etc.
(Page 1.)
2.— Inoculation of Malaria by Anopheles. — Captain C. F. Fearnside, I.M.S.,
Superintendent, Central Prison, Rajamundri, (Page 19.)
3.—Zoological Gleanings from the Royal Indian Marine Survey ship Investi-
gator. — Major A. W. Alcock, I.M.S., Superintendent of the
Indian Museum and Professor of Zoology in the Medical College
of Calcutta, formerly Surgeon Naturalist to the Indian Marine
Survey, (Page 35.)
4. —Some Observations on Spirillum Fever, as seen in the Monkey— Macacus
Radiatus. — Captain George Lamb, I.M.S. (Research Laboratory,
Bombay) , (Page 77.)
5. — On the Anatomy of the roots of Phœnix paludosa Roxb.—
L i e u t e n a n t
A. T. Gage, I.M.S., Curator of the Herbarium attached to the
Royal Botanic Garden, Sibpur, near Calcutta, (Page 103.)
6.— On some Practical methods of Sanitation in India with special reference to
Cantonments. — Major Ernest Roberts, I.M.S., (Page 113.)
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1901.
Price Rupees 5-12-0.
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GOVERNMENT CENTRAL BRANCH PRESS,
1901.
A. AFZELIA. B. PAHUDIA. C. INTSIA. D. SINDORA.
Explanation of the Plate.
A.—AFZELIA. 1. Floral diagram of Afzelia bracteata Vog., from flower of a specimen
collected by G. F. Scott-Elliot, (n. 5533).
2. Flower of Afzelia bracteata Vog., from the same specimen.
3. Seed of Afzelia africana Sm., after Decaisne in Tent. Flor
Senagamb. t. 57.
4. Transverse, and 5, vertical sections of seed from the same source.
B.-PAHUDIA. 6. Floral diagram of Pahudia javanica Miq., from flower of a specimen
collected by Horsfield in Java.
7. Flower of Pahudia javanica Miq. , from living tree in Hort. Pera-
deniya, Ceylon.
8. Front, and 9, back view of seed of Pahudia javanica Miq., from
same source.
v o. Transverse and 11, vertical sections of seed of Pahudia javanica
Miq. , from same source.
C.--INTSIA.
12. Floral diagram of Intsia bijuga Kuntze, from flower of living tree
in Hort. Calcutta.
13. Flower of Intsia bijuga Kuntze, from living tree in Hort. Calcutta.
14. Seed of Intsia retusa Kuntze, from specimen collected by Native
Collector in S. Andaman.
1 5 . T r a n s v e r s e , a n d 1 6 , v e r t i c a l s e c t i o n s o f s e e d , f r o m s a m e s o u r c e .
D.-SINDORA. 17. Floral diagram of Sindora intermedia Bak., from flower of a speci-
men collected by Father Scortecteni at Larut, Perak.
18. Flower of Sindora siamensis Teysm. , collected by Teysmann near
Radboerie in Siam.
19.Seed of Sindora siamensis Teysm., from living tree in Hort.
Calcutta.
20. Transverse, and 21, vertical sections of seed of Sindora siamen
-sis Teysm., f r o m s a m e s o u r c e .
On the characters and relationships of Afzelia Smith.
BY
D. PRAIN, M.B.,
M A J O R , I . M . S . ,
Superintendent, Royal Botanic Garden, Sibpur, Calcutta; Director of the Botanical
Survey of India.
A Leguminous genus Afzelia was founded by Smith in 1798 for a tropical
African tree. The name was designed to perpetuate the memory of Adam Afzel,
Professor at Upsala. When he proposed this name, Smith knew that another
Afzelia had been established by Gmelin in 1791 with the same object. Because
Smith was uncertain as to the affinities of Gmelin's genus he held it unworthy to
be associated with Afzel's name. Time brings its revenges ; there is less dubiety
now regarding Gmelin's Afzelia than there is about Smith's. Gmelin's Afzelia
is the Scrophularineous genus which Pursh in 1814 recharacterised as Seymeria ;
under this name its species are more familiarly known. No one, since Smith
wrote, has been able to find a plant exhibiting all the characters that he attribut--
ed to his Afzelia.
Smith's Afzelia was placed by its author (Trans. Linn. Soc. iv. 221 )i n
Linnés Decandria Monogynia, Jussieu's Leguminosae, near to Hymenaea. His
brief essential characters are :—" Calyx tubulosus, limbo 4-fido, deciduo ; petala
4, unguiculata, summo maximo ; filamenta duo suprema sterilia ; legumen multi-
loculare, semina basi arillata."
Persoon, Synopsis i. 455 (1805), reproduced Smith's diagnosis, but, by
allowing his printer to convert Smith's character " filamenta duo suprema
sterilia " into " filamenta 2—suprema, sterilia," Persoon materially altered the
meaning of the phrase. Persoon, moreover, gave the species a name. He
attributes the specific epithet africana to Smith, it is true, and this citation
of Smith as the author of the species on which it is supposed that Smith founded
his genus has, since 1805, become conventional. Persoon cites the original
definition in vol. iv. of the Linnean Society's Transactions as authority for his
action ; the name, however, was not published there : as a matter of fact, Smith
never did, publish it.
In the Encyclopédie Methodique, Suppl. i. 154 (1810) Poiret, probably
impelled to this by Persoon's erroneous reading of it, amplified Smith's phrase
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filmenta duo suprema sterilia into "dix étamines libres, huit fertiles, les deux
supérieures stériles." This important change, though afterwards adopted by
DeCandolle, in connexion with whose reference it will be discussed, was not
altogether justified, for Poiret does not say that he had been able to examine a
flower.
The next reference to Afzelia is in Rees' Cyclopœdia (1819). Smith,
we know, wrote botanical notices for this work. But he did not write the article
Afzelia. The Latin of the author of that article had become rusty ; the expres-
sion Summo maximo, applied to the petals, is rendered "with a very large head ";
the staminal character is translated " the filaments are two, superior, sterile,"—a
repetition of the misconception embodied, even if not intended, in Persoon's
notice. The article Pancovia in Rees' Cyclopœdia xxvi. was, however, so De-
Candolle tells us, written by Smith. It is there suggested that Pancovia and
Afzelia may be congeneric. This suggestion DeCandolle tentatively adopted.
A year later Sprengel, Syst. Veget. cur. post. 17o (1827) did so definitely. He
was not, however, right ; the species now proves to be an Erioglossum
(Sapindaceae). Sprengel's reference to A. africana, in Syst. ii. 345 (1825), is
negligibly brief.
The account of Afzelia in DeCandolle's Prodromus i i .
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a closer scrutiny than it usually receives. It describes the seed more fully than
Smith had done ; DeCandolle states that he had seen a seed. It differs further
in adopting Poiret's amplification of Smith's character filamentad u o s u p r e m a ,
sterilia, into stamina 10 quorum 8 fertilia 2 super. sterilia ; Persoon and
Rees, by their misinterpretation of Smith's original phrase, had rendered some ac-
- t i o n o f t h i s k i n d n e c e s s a r y . A s D e C a n d o l l e d i d n o t s e e a f l o w e r , t h i s a m p l i f i c a t i o n
is only a deduction from Smith's imperfect characterisation. Though at first sight
a natural enough deduction, it is not the only possible one ; in this case it is not even
the most probable. It does not follow, because his plant was referred to Decand-
ria, that all ten stamens were represented in Smith's flower. The fact that the
uppermost stamens were represented by a priori of staminodes instead of by one
or some other odd number should, on a priori grounds, indicate that the
vexillary stamen was unrepresented even by a staminode. Then Smith's own
suggestion that Pancovia, which Willdenow had referred to Heptandria, might be
congeneric with his Afzelia, should imply that in Afzelia also there were seven
perfect stamens. The unimportant mistake which began in Persoon's Synopsis,
of citing the name Afzelia africana as having been published in Smith's original
account of the genus, recurs in the Prodromus. The error is not without its use;
it has been freely copied and betrays those writers who have cited Smith as their
'Medical Officers of the Army of India.
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authority without having actually considered what Smith wrote. DeCandolle
has justly termed Smith's Afzelia a genus non satis notum ; he might almost
have treated it as a genus dubium.
Seven years later this Afzelia was more fully dealt with by Guillernin,
Perrottet and Richard in their Flor. Senegamb. Tent. (1833). The plant which
these authors have identified with Afzelia africana Smith, has been accepted
such by subsequent writers. Their conclusion was arrived at after careful con-
sideration and in spite of two material discrepancies between the characters
exhibited by their plant and those postulated in the Prodromus article. Smith's
Afzelia is described as having four petals, all clawed ; the Afzelia of Guillemin
and his colleagues does not possess four petals and has only one petal with a
claw. It may therefore be reasonably doubted, if Smith's description be accurate,
whether the Afzelia africana of the Prodromus is the same as the Afzelia
africana of the Flor. Senegamb.
The other discrepancy is as to the number of stamens. This difficulty,
however, has mainly arisen from the neglect of the authors of the Flor. Sene-
gamb. to consult Smith's own account of Afzelia. Had this been done, they
would have seen that Smith does not, as they suppose, aver that Afzelia has
8 fertile stamens, and would have found that what Smith actually does say,
considered in the light of such collateral evidence as is available, in all probabil-
ity implies that his plant, like their own, had 7 fertile stamens aid two staminod es.
The figure by Decaisne (Flor. Seneg. Tent. t. 57) shows, and the letter-press
(loc. cit 264) accurately describes the actual structure of the flower in the species
assumed to be Afzelia africana. In their generic definition, however, the
staminal character is given as stamina 9-10, quorum 7-8 exserta fertilia, 2
capillaria Thus Smith's actual statement that Afzelia may have 4
petals is excluded ; while the statement that there may be 8 fertile stamens ; which
was neither made by Smith nor based on observation, is retained.
The next important reference to Afzelia occurs in the Flora Nigritana 325,
t. 34 , 35 (:849) where another species, A. bracteataV o g , h a s b e e n d e s c r i b e d b y
Hooker and figured by Fitch. This species Hooker describes as having 6 —8
stamens ; in Fitch's drawing it is shown consistently as having only 6 fertile
filaments. The statement made here by Hooker has been accepted as a sectional
character for Afzelia § Euafzelia by Bentham (Gen. Plant. 1) and for Intsia §
Afoinisi a, which is mo r phologically the same thing, by Taubert (Naturl.
P Pflinzentam. iii. 3). Baillon, who has re-examined Vogel's plant, finds (Mist.
des Pl intes ii. 112), as the writer also finds, that A. bracteata has always 7 fertile.
stamens and 2 posterior staminodes. Baillon, however, states that the plant