642 CXLII GNETACER. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Gnetum. 
Ind.ii.518; Kurz in Flora lv. (1872) 350; For, Fl. ii. 497; Blume wn Ane 
Sc. Nat. Ser. 2, ii. 105; Rumph. iv. 3,+.176; Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 1067 ; 
Brongn. in Duperr. Voy. Bot. 6,5. 1; Wall. Cat. 8025, 8026. G. dd 
anum, Griff. in Lindl. Veg. Kingd. 233; Trans. Linn. Soc. xxii. 308, t. 1 , 
f. 9-20, and t. 56, f. 27, 28, 41, 49, 44-47; Motul. 30; Kurz in Flora lv. 
(1872) 349. G. Griffithii, Parlat. l. e. 349, 852. 
Kuasta and Munyipore HiLLs, and southward to SrxGaPORE.— DISTRIB. 
Malay Islands. . 
Usually a shrub, rarely a small tree, 10-15 ft. — Leaves membranous or Cres 
4-8 in., very variable in length breadth and the number and direction of the nerves, 
which are either strong or faint, often brightly polished above, yellow green or ae 
when dry, base acute; petiole 1-3 in. Spikes about 1 in., slender ; cupular from 
at length distant. Seed 4 in. long, orange-cold., shining.—4A very slender form dent 
Tenasserim, also named G. Brunonianum by Griffith, is noted by him as being scandent 
A specimen of apparently the same is in Wallich’s herbarium from Penang. etes 
No. 8024 B ; it has pedicelled young fruit. These possibly may be a different specie» 
but the flowering spikes do not differ from those of G. Gnemon. 
2. G. ? neglectum, Blume Rumph. iv. 6, t. 175, f. 2, and t. 184; 
Mus. Bot. i. 28; a diœcious climbing shrub, leaves rigidly cor acea 
elliptic-oblong or -lanceolate obtusely cuspidately acuminate or apina 
spikes solitary or panicled, hairs round the ovary rusty-red, see 0: For 
Parlat. in DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 350; Kurz in Flora lv. (1872) 35 ul n 
Fl. ii. 496. G. microcarpum, Blume Rumph. l. c.t.175, f. 1; Mus. Bol a 
29. G. apiculatum, Griff. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxii. 308, t. 55, f. 21, 2477» 
and t. 56, f. 29-40; Motul. iv. 31. 
ARRACAN and TENASSERIM, Griffith, &c. (Kew Distrib. 4972). PERAK, Wray. 
PENANG, Wallich, Curtis. MALACCA, Griffith. above, 
An evergreen climber. Leaves 3—4 in., very variable, usually very glossy faint; 
base rounded obtuse or acnte, margins sometimes recurved; nerves very ong 
petiole $-3 in. Spikes short, fem. flowering 4-$ in.; young fruiting 2 in.; which 
seeds very acuminate.—I am doubtful as to this being Biume’s G. neglectum» na » 
he figures with acutely acuminate leaves (and describes as “ rarissime obtusius Silhet, 
and fruiting spikes 6 in. long. Griffith (Linn. Soc. Trans. l.c.) gives 
Roxburgh,” as a locality, but I have seen no specimens from so far north. 
. : e 
3. G. macrostachyum, Hook. f.; scandent, dicecious, leaves larg? 
oblong or oblong-lanceolate very coriaceous base acute rounded or co 
fem. spikes as thick as the finger hairs round the ovules brown. 
SINGAPORE, Hullett, ? PENANG, Curtis. MALACCA, ? Mt. Ophir, Maingay a 
Leaves; in Singapore specimens a lower pair are 8 by 4 in., euspidate, coria- 
cordate base; the upper are smaller, 7 by 22 in., acuminate, base acute, M ^ hin. 
ceous, shining on both surfaces and reticulate. Young male spikes 2i . de arate 
diam, ; fem. 4 in. long by 2 in. diam. ; cupular bracts short, close together, me speci- 
only by the profuse hairs. Ovules acuminate, quite glabrous. rhe ponm and the 
mens are in ripe seed, have less coriaceous leaves narrowed into the peto, b broadly 
very old solitary fem. rachis sessile with close articulations, and a sessi ens are in 
ellipsoid seed $ in. long, with rounded base and top. The Mt. Ophir speci be the 
young male fl. only. Possibly the Mt. Ophir and the Penang plant may pable. 
same as the Singapore one, of which the great fem. spikes are most dat or oblan- 
drawing apparently of this species (in Herb. Kew) has oblong-lanceo'a nd elliptic" 
ceolate acuminate leaves, short very stout fruiting spikes 8 in. long, ar Jlection © 
oblong green sessile seeds 14 in. long, with both ends rounded; it is in a CO 
drawings of Singapore plants (by Parry). 
** Seed stipitate. 
mE imber 
4. G. scandens, Rox}. Fl. Ind. iii. 518; a lofty diœcious chm? 
