mm. across; lobes obcordate, longer and uavrower and not cTerlapping in the long,
styled form; tube pale-yellow, 2—3 times the length of the calyx ; capsule included
within the calyx, obovate, rounded at the apex; setds many.
WESTERN IILIIALAYA: abuiidant along t!ie upper portions of the Kagdn and Siran
Valleys at elevations of between 10,000 and U.OOO f e e t ; Dutkie's Collector. W. KASHMIR;
hi the Sluzailarabad district; DutUe^s Colhctor.
Closely allied to P. Jafmjana King, a very rare Eastern Himalayan species
found in the Chumbi Valley at an elevation of about 12,000 feet. It differs in the
venation of the loaves, and in the shape of the ovary; the underside of the leaves are
persistently coated with a brilliant silvery mealiness.
PLATE 62. Primula hazarica Dvlhif. A. plant of the short-styled form,—o/ natural lise. A, shortsl!/
kd form. Fig. 1, single flower; 2, corolla, laid opon; 3, oalys, laid open, showing the ovary and
s t y l e , e n l a r g e d . B, long-slt/hd form. Fig. 1, siugle flower; 2, corolla, laid open; 3, oaljs, laid
opeu; 4, ripe capsule; 5, eeeda,—a// enlarged.
J . F. D.
PLATE 63.
65. SLDEEOXYLON LONGEPETIOLATUM Eiiig ^ Praitl.
Natural order I
A considerable tree with straight stem and rather slender horizontal branches,
somewhat buttressed below; innovations with sparse, rusty, caducous tomentum; leaves
very large, especially on younger trees, glabrous, shining, entire, thinly papery, obovatelanceolate,
acute rarely obtuse, narrowed from the middle to a rather stout, long petiole;
nerves very slightly ascending, parallel, looping within the margin, 20—25 pairs^
secondary venation finely distinctly reticulate; lamina 8—16 cm. lone, 3'5—7 cm. wide
on young trees sometimes 70—75 cm. long, 30 cm. wide; petioles 4 - 7 cm' long |
flowers axillary, near apices of branches, u.sually in fascicles of 6—10, lower down with
sparsely pubescent, furrowed peduncles 2—6 cm. long springmg from the centre of
t h e axillary fascicle and bearing at intervals, 1 cm. apart, similar fascicles racemosely
disposed; pedicels slender, pubescent, -75 cm. long; bracts and bracteoles minute;
r-xlyx puberulous externally, glabrous within, lobes 5, suborbicuUr, much imbricatedcorolla
campanulate, lobes oblong, obtuse, imbricated ; stamens 5, attached to base of
corolla, opposite the lobes; stamiaodes 5, subulate, attached between corolla-lobestorus
annular, pubescent; ovary 5-celled, pubescent, subglobose ; style conical short -'
stigma minute; ovules in each cell solitary, attached near base to inner angle; fruii
ovoid and l-seeded, less often globose 2-seeded, with succulent pericarp, indehiscent, at
first yellow, when fully ripe of dark-marooa colour; 4 cm. long, 2-5 i cm. in diameterseeds
1 or 2, compressed subfusifoi-m, 3'25 cm. long, 1-5 cm. wide, 1 cm. thick, testa
thick, coàaceous, dark-brown or almost black with a pale-pink hilum extendino- nearly
the whole length of the seed. Gluta longepetiolata Eurs, Pegu Forest Rep °App J
41 (1875); Journ. As. &c. Beng. Isv. 2. 210 (1876); For. Fior. Brit. Burma i. 31^
(18/7). Sideroxylon fermgineum Frain hi J'ourn. As. Soc. Beng. Ixii. 2 72 Vl893^
•partivi, non Hz A. ' • \ /
ANDAMANS : near Port Blair ; Kurz.' E. B. Man 1 Narcondam ; Praia ! BURMA •
Teuassetim, Mittikit Forest; Falconer n. 311
This species has been somewhat troublesome to deal with. One of us, in working
through the material of Anacardiaceae in tlie Calcutta herbarium, had in 1895 to remove
from the genus Gluia the specimens on whicli the late Mr. Kurz based his proposed
species Gluta longepetiolata. Examining them together we recognised that they were
undoubtedly conspecific with a tree of which the other had personally collected specimens
in the island of Narcondam, and recognising it as a Sidercxulon, had tentatively
included in his Narcondam list under S. ferrvgineum, a species that also occurs in
Narcondam. Of the same tree there are several examples under cultivation in the Calcutta
Garden, raised from seed received from Mr. E. H. Man, C.I.E., of Port Blair.
Before foimally announcing the reduction of Mr. Kurz's species it seemed to us
better to wait <ill the frees at Calcutta had flowered and fruited. This has now
occurred and the drBwiugs given in PLATE 63 have been made from living trees in
Hort. Calcutta.
The species is very nearly related to Siderozyion niiiditm Bl. of which large suites
of specimens have recently been received from Java through the kindness of Dr. Treub
and Mr. Koorders. The leaves of cm- tree are, however, thinner as well as larger than
those of S. niiidum; its flowers are rather, and its fruits much, larger.
I n the Flora of British India, iii. 642. and in the Journal nf the Asiatic Societg oj
Bettaal, xlvi. 2. 230, reference is made to a specimen collected by Falconer in the
Mittikit Forest, Mai-taban, which is said to bo nearly allied to Palaquium polgantliv.m
{lionandra or Dichopsis polyantha of the works quoted). Falconer's specimen does not,
however, belong to any Palaquium but to the species now described.
PLATE 63.—Sideroxylon longepetiolatum King ^ Pi-ain. I, floweriog branch; 2, fruiting
branch ; 3, flower,—of natural »ize; 4, Lud, seen from side; 5, bud, from above ; 6, caljx, laid open ;
7, the same, in section, to show aestivation; 8, corolla, laid open, showing insertion of stamens and
staminodes; 9, stamens ; 10, ovary, the calyx removed ; 11, very young ovary, showing relation to
enlarged annular torus; 12, vei-tical section of flower; 13, transversa section of ovary,—A// enlarged;
14, fruit with single seed ; 15, fruit with two seeds ; 16, seed ; 17, seed, cut transversely,—all of
natural sise.
G. K. ; D. P.
66. HOTA OBRENIFORMIS Ein;/ Mss. in Ilerh. Calcutta.
J!faiural order Asclepiadacese.
A herb with slender, minutely puberulous, creeping and rooting stem and i
branches ; leaves obcordate or obreniform, sometimes broader than long, lobes rounded,
sinus acute, base rounded or subacute, rather thin, opaque, nerves obscurely reticulate,
faintly visible above not evident beneath, bright-green above, paler beneath; length
1-25—2-5 cm., width 2'25—2-5 cm. ; Jlowers 15—20, in rather loose umbels on peduncles
puberulous like the stems, 3'5—6 cm. long, pedicels slender, glabrous ; cal^x pale-green,
lobes triangular acute ; corolla white, 1 cm. wide ; lobes triangular obtuse with villous
margins and upper surface. H. obcordata ffook. / . in Flor. Brit. Ind. iv. 56 (1883) not
of Teysm. ^ Binnend. Cat. Hort. Bog. 385 (1866).
ANK, EOY. BOT. GARD., CALC.. VOL. I X.