Trema.] CXXXVL URTICACEE. (J. D. Hooker.) 485 
hard and roughly shortly hispid, usually shining above, paler beneath, base rounded or 
cordate, hairs with swollen persistent bases; petiole 1 in.; stipules longer than the 
petiole, deciduous. j 
5. GIRONNIERA, God. 
Evergreen unarmed trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, penninerved ; 
stipules sheathing the buds, caducous. Flowers diccious, in axillary cymes, 
or the fem. solitary. MALE FL. Sepals 5, broad, obtuse, imbricate. Stamens 
5, erect in bud. `Pistillode woolly. Frm. FL. Sepals narrower than the 
males, acute. Ovary sessile; style central, arms 2 filiform; ovule pendu- 
ous. Drupe ovoid or suborbicular, terete or compressed, often 2-keeled, 
endocarp hard. Albumen 0, scanty or copious ; embryo contorted.—Species 
8 or 10, South Indian, Malayan and Chinese. 
1. G. nervosa, Planch. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3, x. (1848) 338; 
DC. Prodr. xvii. 206; branchlets petioles peduncles and leaf-nerves 
beneath tawny or golden silkily villous, leaves elliptic or oblong acuminate 
entire subsilky between the very stout nerves beneath, male cymes spici- 
form, drupe ovoid compressed beaked hispidulous. Kurz For. Fl. ii. 469; 
Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. ii. 223; Suppl. 412; Blume Mus. Bot. ii. 74. Anti- 
esma nervosum, Wall. Cat. 7289. 
Prnane, Porter; PERAK, MALACCA and SINGAPORE, Griffith, &c.—DISTRIB. 
Malay Islands. 
A tree attaining 70 ft. Leaves 5-7 in., coriaceous, opaque and glabrous above ; 
nerves 12-15 pairs, sunk above, very strong beneath, interspaces reticulated, base 
acute; petiole 1—1 in. ; stipules 3-1 in., silky. Cymes 1-1} in. ; males rather stout 
with few dense-fld. branches; fem. cymes of sparingly branched racemes. Drupe 
shortly pedicelled, 3-} in. long, obtusely 2-edged.—Kurz gives “ Burma probably 
Tenasserim ” as a habitat, but I have seen no specimens. 
2. G. subsequalis, Planch. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3, x. 339; DC. 
Prodr. xvii. 206; branchlets stipules young petioles leaf-nerves beneath 
and cymes sparsely strigose, leaves elliptic or elliptic-oblong acuminate 
entire scaberulous beneath between the nerves shining on both surfaces, 
drupe broadly ellipsoid compressed 'appressed-pubescent. Mig. Fl. Ind. 
at. i. ii, 222; Blume Mus. Bot. ii. 73. G. nervosa, var. subequalis, Kurz 
For, FI. ii. 470. G. costata, Mig. in Zoll. Cat. 88, and in Fl. Ind. Bat. I. c. 
Sponia annulata, Teijsm. d Binnend. in Nat. Tijdsch. Neerl. Ind. ii. 363. 
PERAK, Scortechini, King's Collector. MALACCA, Maingay. ANDAMAN ISLANDS, 
Kurz—Disrrrp, Malay Islands, China. hen d 
A tree, 70-80 ft. Leaves 5-8 in., sometimes 5 in. broad, pale brown when bel 
very coriaceous, reticulate beneath between the 8-10 pairs of strong nerves; ch 
„cute; petiole 1-2 in.; stipules 1-2 in. Cymes sparingly branched, slender, muc 
longer than in G. nervosa, Drupe i-i in., compressed, obtusely 2-edged, usually 
aked, rarely orbicular. dat 
AR. ceylanica, Thwaites Enum. 268; more slender, leaves narrower cauda te- 
acuminate less rigid and coriaceous sometimes oblanceolate and serrulate towan 8 
N tip, stipules smaller silkily villous, fem. cymes very few-fid., drupe er 
subsolitary axillary. G. parvifolia, 8. in part, Planchon l. c. G. subzequalis, eaa. 
or. Man. 219, and Fi. Sylvat. t. 313. Helminthospermum scabridum, 7 hwaites 
in Hook. Journ. Bot, vi. (1854) 303, t. 9 C.— Ceylon, in the Central Province, alt. 1000- 
T „ft Walker. —Referred by Planchon to G. parvifolia, but I think, ‘ted 
hwaites, that it is much nearer G. subequalis. Better specimens are wan eà. 
dome figures the Ceylon G. subequalis as having only 4-5-nerved leaves, and the 
e flowers as forming minute axillary clusters. 
