Miscellaneous botanical notes XVIII C.G.G.J. van Steenis A NEW FOR GASTROCALYX 115. NAME SCHISCHKIN (CARYOPHYLLACEAE) Schischkiniella — Bull. Steen., nom. nov. Gastrocalyx Schischkin, Mus. Cauc. Tifls Gardn. in Ann. Nat. Hist. based 12 (1919) 200; non Gastrocalyx Mag. I (1838) 176, on G. connatus Gardn. l.c., descr. geti.-spec. (Gentianaceae). S. ampullata (Boiss.) Steen., comb. nov. — Silene ampullata Boiss. Diagn. sér. I, 1 (1842) 26; Fl. Orient. 1 (1867) 606. — Gastrocalyx ampullata (Boiss.) Schischk. l.c. Gardner's overlooked Index which For a long time genus was in Kewensis, is obviously the reason that Dr. Schischkin, in whose honour the new name is proposed, was not aware of the homonymy. 116. THE FRUIT AND SEED OF DELTARIA BRACHYBLASTOPHORA STEEN. (THYMELAEACEAE) In 1959 I described this New Caledonian genus (Nova Guinea, n.s., 10, pt 2, p. 208) but then only oneimmaturefruit was available to me. In his new explorations Dr. McKee first and naturally continued to have interest in the plant he detected in February 1966 he sent some mature fruits and seed. He wrote that ripe fruits open very quickly and remained attached the fruit valves but were picked up below the tree; seeds to may fruit does differ also fall off soon. As can be observed (fig. 1), the mature not very much Fruits in virious Fig. 1. Deltaria brachyblastophora Steen. stages of opening, X 1½, seeds x 3. the have in size from the immature one I used for original description. In the figure I the is attached the of depicted stages of fruit opening; each of the three seeds at apex the cell and less notchlike embedded the of two valve halves. The more or in pericarp seed is black, minutely tubercled and puberulous; the hilum is running over almost its entire length. There is a faint indication of a chalazal strophiola. 146 BLUMEA VOL. XV, No. i, 1967 NAMES 117. EVALUATION OF SOME DUBIOUS INDO-PACIFIC BIGNONIACEOUS In revision of Malesian Bot. my Bignoniaceae (Bull. Jard. Btzg III, 10, 1928, 282) have some names, mostly nomina nuda or subnuda, could not be placed. I gradually collected information and can now account for all of them. Fl. Bignonia comosa Roxb. (Hort. Beng. 1814, 95) Ind. ed. Carey, 3 (1832) 103, non Fl. Ind. Cham. 1832; DC. Prod. 9 (1845) 144; Miq. Bat. 2 (1858) 751; Steen. Act. Bot. Neerl. 2 (1953) 305. — Spathodea comosa (Roxb.) G. Don, Gen. Syst. 4 (1838) 222. the Brussels Described from Moluccas, no drawing at Kew, but the type at (herb. Martius); the leaves exactly match the description, a detached fruit does not belong to it; the species is doubtless Clerodendron lanuginosum Bl. 1825 ( Verbenaceae). Bignonia fraxinoides Perrottet, Mém. Soc. Linn. Paris 3 (1824) 102, 94, nomen semi-nudum. Paris Said to grow at Surabaya, E. Java; no material preserved at and according to the the text (I.e. 94) not collected; the letters M. C., added to the description, point to fact the that the plant was observed only in Mascarenes Is and at Cayenne, Guyana. remains be buried into oblivion. Mme Tardieu-Blot Identification a mystery, better to is thanked for essential help. Bignonia longiflora Reinw. MS ex De Vriese, Pl. Ind. Bat. Orient. (1856) 9, nomen = Trichosporum longiflorum Bl. (Gesneraceae) . Bignonia moluccana DC. Prod. 9 (1845) 144; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 2 (1858) 751. — B. discolor A. Rich. Sert. Astrol. (1834) xxix, non R.Br. 1814. Said to have been collected in the Moluccas at Ambon. Leaves simple, pubescent beneath, flowers terminal, in bracteate spikes, yellow. The description would point to Gmelina Paris asiatica (Verben.) but the type at with an indubitably original label was correctly identified by E. Bureau as Bignonia capreolata L. 1 have seen it and had made a drawing of it. It does not at all tally with the description and some confusion with labels and specimens must have taken place, as B. capreolata has glabrous leaves, axillary flowers, not yellow, and not in bracteate racemes. DichrotrichumReinw. De Reinwardt's Reis = Bignonia ternatea ex Vriese, (1858) 495, 644 ternatum Bl. (Gesneraceae). Verh. = Bignonia tripinnata Norona, Bat. Gen. K. & W. 5 (1790) art. 5, p. 8, nomen Oroxylum indicum (L.) Vent. Norona's description in the Paris MS is clear. Gard. — Tecoma filicifolium (Bull) Nicholson, Diet. 4 (1887) 13. Campsidium filicifolium Bull, Wholesale List New Beaut. & Rare Pi. (1874) fig.; Cat., ex Johnson & Hogg, A. T. Pom. Journ. Hort. 51 (1874) 366; van Geert, Catal. n. 74 (1874); Moore, Fl. et Cf. Gard. sub and (1874) 280. R. Hort. Soc. Diet. 3 (1951) 1477 Pandorea, 4 (1951) 2085. William Bull first published this in a Catalogue in which he offered plants for sale, 'from giving a description and a plate. His material related to a slender woody climber, the Feejee Islands, and referred doubtfully to Campsidium, from the analogy of its in. and foliage. It has opposite imparipinnate leaves, c. 5 long, including a petiole I in., consist of nine pairs of leaflets, small, ovate, deeply cut into two or three lobes on each side, the large lobes being sometimes also toothed. A very elegant stove climber'. interest and N. Y. I in- Through the care of our late friend Sandwith, got the vital C. G. G. J. VAN STBENIS: Miscellaneous botanical notes XVIII 147 of Pandorea formation on literature and material. He unearthed in the Polynesian cover austrocaledonica (Bur.) Seem, at Kew, material of this garden specimen, which N. E. Brown had identified and this is certainly correct. the material of Pandorea To me origin Fiji seems doubtful, as no Fiji pandorana (Andr.) into Also Steen. to which I refer P. austrocaledonica, has ever come my hands. Parham, in his newest account of Fiji plants (1964) 210, does not mention it, although he lists about dozen other cultivated conclusion that must have hailed a Bignoniaceae. My is it from New Caledonia. The herbarium specimens differ a little from Bull's plate by having fewer leaflets. As their and serration varies sometimes Sandwith remarked number very greatly, even known that of show wide on one twig, and it is well juveniles P. pandorana vegetative and useless for variation are taxonomic purpose. This removes then the occurrence of nativeBignoniaceae from SE. Polynesia, the advanced of this the Pacific most posts family in West being Dolichandrone spathacea in the Solomons & New Caledonia, Pandoreapandorana and Deplanchea in New Caledonia, Three of and Tecomanthe speciosa in the Kings Islands, North New Zealand. 118. A REMARKABLE MYRMECOPHYTE, CALLICARPA SACCATA N. SP., FROM SARAWAK AND SOME ALLIED SPECIES (VERBENACEAE) Callicarpa saccata Steen., sp. nov. Affinitate C. havilandii differt j'oliis ovato-oblongis, longe accuminatis, basi abrupte attenuatis, duas in saccas auriculiformias productis; flores tetrameri. Typus : Sarawak, Sibat ak. Luang S 23637 (L). — Fig. 2. A treelet —6 Indument all over brown 3 m; stem 3—cm 0. conspicuous, coarsely less hispid by more-celled, more or tubercle-based hairs, further a very short, puberulous the tomentum consisting of simple and stellate hairs, sparsely on leaf, densely and brownish on the stem and-cymes; undersurface of the leaves besides with fairly dense, regularly interspersed, fine, pitted glands, on the auricled lobes also large nectarial glands. base rounded and Leaves ovate- to elliptic-oblong, apex long-acuminate, ± abruptly into narrowed, equal-sided or unequal-sided, widened two auriculiform, bullate sacs blade some I—ij cm long; margin shortly dentate; proper c. 10—17 by 5 —11 cm, in specimens markedly anisophyllous; petiole J—IJ cm. Cymes fairly many-flowered, and old outside axillary on the wood, c. 2—2-J cm long. Flowers 4-merous. Calyx densely and shortly brown stellate-hairy, inside sparsely stellate-hairy, hypanthium in flower teeth. thicker upwards; fruit calyx more distinctly cup-shaped with 4 minute Corolla tube twice as long as the 4 oblong blunt lobes, in total c. 74 mm long. Stamens not protruding, style slightly so. Ovary 4-celled, each cell with 2 dissepiment-attached ovules. Fruit almost globular, c. 4 mm 0, with scattered, yellow, pulverulent glands (as on the each ovary), breaking up into 8 segmental pyrenes; pericarp withering; pyrene with small containing a small seed without endosperm and 2 cotyledons in a outer besides all with air-filled cavity; pyrenes an inner empty, cavity, obviously capable of floating. BORNEO. Sarawak: Bt 60 S S S Iju, Ulu Arip, Balingian, m, on hillslope, 23637 (type); 23773, 23728; Sg Belaga, Ashton S 18286 ; 3rd Division, Bt Raya, Kapit, E. Wright S 23866; Sarawak, M. Hirano and M. Hotta 1118 (Kyoto Univ. Herb.). Field hill land notes and Ecology: From the lowland to c. 450 m, on slopes, slips along noted of his that branches weak river, clayey or sandy-clay soils. Ashton specimens are 148 BLUMEA VOL. XV, No. i, 1967 Fig. 2. Callicarpa saccata Steen. a. Habit, x ½, b—c.leaf-base, with glands, x 1½, d. flower, x 3, e. opened corolla, X 3, f. stamen, x 4½ g. ovary and style, x 4½, h. section of young ovary, x 15, i. fruit, x 3, section j. section offruit, x 3,1. mericarps (pyrene), one with remains of pericarp, x 3, m. lengthwise of n. cross section pyrene, x 4½, of pyrene, x 9, o. hair, x 6. — Callicarpa havilandii (K. & G.) H. J. — S Lam, k. cross section offruit, X 3 (a h, j, 1—o. SAR 23637, i. Ashton 18286, k. Haviland 3549). C. G. G. J. VAN STEENIS: Miscellaneous botanical notes XVIII 149 is and and sagging to the ground. The fruit red or bright red, petals, stamens, style all covered with hairs. white; parts rusty The makes of Remarks.