Aglaia pedicellaris
C.DC. in A. DC. & C.DC., Monogr. Phan. 1: 607.1878.
This species was described based of Helfer 1046 (collected in Tenasserim and
Andaman(K). Parkinson (1923) did not include it. However, in the Introduction he
stated that Dr. Helfer, a Russian Scientist, visited the islands in 1839 to ascertain the
mineral wealth but he was murdered by the aborigines on the North Andaman Island.
His botanical collections from Andaman were, therefore, after his death, got mixed up
with those from Tenasserim, so all specimens were then together labelled as Tenasserim
and Andaman'' which has resulted in great confusion as plants of one region have been
ascribed wrongly to the other. This may, perhaps, be the reason, why Parkinson did not
include this in his flora.