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160 JOURNAL, BOMBAYNATURALHIST. SOCIETY, Vol. 91 (1994) — 31. PEGIA NITIDA COLEBR. A NEW RECORD FOR WESTERN HIMALAYA Pegia Colebr. (Anacardiaceae) with its 8 2: 101. 1979; Deb, FI. Tripura State 1: 465. 1981; species is distributed from Eastern Himalaya to Mukherjee & ChandrainBull. Bot. Surv. India 25 South China and Philippines. Only P. nitida (1-4): 55. 1983. Robergia hirsuta Roxb. FI. Ind. Colebr. occurs in India which is distributed in 2: 455. 1832. Tapariahirsuta (Roxb) Hook, f., FI. Central and Eastern tropical Himalaya, from Brit. Ind. 2: 28. 1876; Kanjilal et al. FI. Assam , Nepal extending eastwards to Assam, up to 1200 1(2): 339. 1936. m. FI. : January - March; Fr.: April -May. While identifying the specimens collected Distribution: India (Assam, Manipur, Sik- during a botanical tour to Mussoorie (Garhwal kim, Tripura), Nepal, Bhutan, Burma, Himalaya), a few specimens were identified as Bangladesh, China and Philippines. Peigia nitida Colebr. on critical examination at Specimens examined: Paritibba forest near theHerbariumoftheNationalBotanical Research Woodstock School,Mussoorie, S.I. Husain & S.L. Institute, Lucknow. A review of literature Kapoor, 210564, 30-4-1988, fr., ‘occasional in revealed that this species has so far not been the forest’ (LWG). reported from Western Himalaya. The present report thus extends its distribution from C. & Acknowledgement E.tropical Himalaya westward up to Mussoorie, We thank the Director, National Botanical ascending up to 2057 m. Research Institute, Lucknow, for facilities. Pegia nitida Colebr. is a scandent shrub with imparipinnate leaves and obliquely obovoid drupes. It is worth mentioning here its correct October 5, 1992 BHASKAR DATT name and sysnonyms with citations followed by S.L. KAPOOR — flowering fruiting period, distribution, etc. Herbarium, PegianitidaColebr. in Trans. Linn. Soc. 15: National BotanicalResearch Institute, 364. 1827; Hara & Press in Enum. FI. PI. Nepal Lucknow-226 001. 32. THE IDENTITY OF PHANERA NICOBARICA (LEGUMINOSAE CAESALPINIOIDEAE) : Balakrishnan and Thothathri (1975) while PBL); Hore 7238 (CAL); Nair 7192 (CAL, describing Phanera nicobarica Balakr. & PBL) reveals that none of the aforesaid dif- Thoth. as a new and interesting species from ferences hold good. Hence, P. nicobarica has the Great Nicobar Island stated "This species been treated here as a synonym ofB. stipularis. belongs to the section Meganthera de Wit and The full synonymy is as follows: approaches near to P. stipularis (Korth.) Benth. Bauhinia stipularis Korth. in Verh. nat. but differs by its longer and stouter petioles, Gesch. Ned. Bezitt., Bot. 92. 1841. Type: longer pedicels, oblong-lanceolate petals and Sumatra, Korthals s.n. (lectotype LNo. 908. 107- ovary with shorter stipe, peltate stigma and 1410, photo, of lectotype CAL!; isolectotype K, many ovules." But in course of a taxonomic photo, of isolectotype CAL!). The Leiden study on the Indian Bauhinias examination of specimen was annotated by de Wit as the lec- the type materials (Balakrishnan andThothathri totype in 1951 but has been cited simply as a type did not examine the type ofB—auhinia stipularis in his subsequent publication (1956). Korth. (= P. stipularis) pers. comm., Phanera stipularis (Korth.) Benth. in Miq., Thothathri) together with some other relevant PI. Jungh. 263. 1852. Type as above. specimens from Sumatra: Forbes 1793, 2665 & Phanera albo-lutea Miq., FI. Ned. Ind. 1(1): 2928 (all CAL) and Nicobar Islands: Chak- 1079. 1858.Type:Padangsidempuan,TeysmannM.B. raborty 3231 (CAL); Dwivedi 8020 (CAL, 857 (holotypeU, fidedeWit 1956). . MISCELLANEOUSNOTES 161 Bauhinia albo-lutea (Miq.) Prain in J. Asiat. stipularis (cf. de Wit 1956). This interesting Soc. Bengal 66(2): 181. 1897. Type as above. variation in the petal-character requires further Phanera nicobarica Balakr. & Thoth. in observation to find out whether it has any special Bull. Bot. Surv. India 17(1-4): 201. 1975; syn. taxonomic value. nov.. Type: 15 km on East-West road. Great Acknowledgements Nicobar, + 100 m, 23 Aug. 1975, Balakrishnan 3043 (holotype CAL!; isotype CAL!, PBL); 18 We are grateful to Prof. Kai Larsen for con- km on North-south road. Great Nicobar, ± 25 m, firming the identity of P. nicobarica and permit- 17 July 1976, Balakrishnan 3824 (paratype ting us to publish the matter independently CAL!, PBL); on the way from Galathea Bay to though they (Prof. K. & S.S. Larsen) had realized Pulobaha Bay, Great Nicobar, ± 125 m, 26-3- years ago that P. nicobarica is the same as B. 1966. Thothathri & Banerjee 11661, 10661 typo, stipularis. We are also grateful to the authorities err. in protologue’ (paratype CAL!). ofthe Rijksherbarium, Leiden and Royal Botanic Bauhinianicobarica(Balakr. &Thoth.)Bennet Gardens, Kew for providing the photographs of in Ind. J. Forest. 5(4): 326. 1982. Type as above. the type specimens. Note: The paratype specimen Thothathri & ( Banerjee 11661) ofP nicobaricadiffers fromrest December 15, 1992 S. BANDYOPADHYAY ofthe specimensin having mostofthepetals with BotanicalSurvey ofIndia cuneate bases (a character not mentioned in the P.O. Botanic Garden, Howrah 711 103. SHARMA protologue) in addition to the few subcordate and B.D. typical cordate ones. Similar petal-character, i.e. BotanicalSurveyofIndia, withcuneatebases was also notedby Prain (1897: P-8, Braboume Road, Calcutta 700 001. 182) but he erred in assigning this characteristic to B. albo-lutea which is only a synonym of B. Balakrishnan, N.P. & K. Thothathri (1975): Phane—ra King, Materials for a flora of the Malayan Penin- nicobarica Balakr. & Thoth. (Caesalpiniaceae) sula. J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 66(2): 21-275. A new and interesting species from Great Nicobar De Wit, H.C.D. (1956): A revision of Malaysian Island. Bull. Bot. Surv. India 17(1-4): 201-203. Bauhinieae. Reinwardtia 3(4): 381-539. Prain,D. (1897): OrderXXXVIII. Leguminosae. In: G. — 33. PARTHENIUM HYSTEROPHORUS L. (ASTERACEAE) FROM NEIL ISLAND A NEW ADVENTIVE TO THE ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR ISLANDS Mikania cordata (Burm. f. ) B.L. Robinson of the island did not include P. hysterophorus in and Chromolaena ordorata (L.) R.M. King and the list of plants collected from there (Basu M. Robinson are the two major weeds of 1987). Asteraceae hitherto reported to be growing along This species is known to bedispersed mainly roadsides and in forest clearings in the Andaman through the agencies of water, vehicles and andNicobarIslands (Saldanha 1987). Parthenium animals. Wind dispersal in this species is highly hysterophorusL. yet anothermemberofthefami- restricted and is only ofthe order ofa few metres ly Asteraceae which ranks third among the top (Auld et al. 1982/83). In view ofthis, inadvertent seven weeds of the wor—ld (King 1966) has been introduction through the agency of man is per- found for the first time on Neil, a small island haps the only explanation fortheoccurrenceofP. situated towards the southern end of Ritchies’ hysterophorus on so many far flung islands in the Archipelago, Northeast of Port Blair, South An- Indian and Pacific Oceans. The completedescrip- daman. Even a relatively recent botanical survey tion and other details are given by R.S. Rao, in