Gnetum. | CXLIII, GNETACE®. (J. D. Hooker.) 643 
leaves oblong or ovate obtusely cuspidate, spikes in stiff brachiate panicles, 
hairs round the ovary rusty (when dry), seed gradually stoutly stipitate 
young often silvery scaly. Parlat. in DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 351; Griff in 
Trans. Linn. Soc. xxii. 309, t. 55, f. 1-8, 22, 23, and t. 56, f. 39, 40, 42; 
Notul.iv. 29; Brand. For. Fl. 502; Grah. Cat. Bomb. Pl. 188; Dalz. & 
Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 246. G.edule, Blume Nov. Pl. Fam. 31; Rumph. iv. 6; 
Kurz in Flora lv. (1872) 350; For. Fl. ii. 495; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 
1068. G. gnemonoides and G. Ula, Brongn. in Duperr. Voy. Bot. 12. G. 
funiculare, Wight lc. t. 1955 (not of Biwme). G. pyrifolium, Miguel in 
Herb. Hohenack. No. 489. G. latifolium, Parlat. l.e. 350 (not of Blume). 
Thoa edulis, Willd. Sp. Pl. iv. 477.—Gnetum, Wall. Cat. 8023 and 8024.— 
Rheede Hort. Mal. vii. t. 22. 
Eastern TROPICAL HIMALAYA, from Sikkim eastwards, and from AssAM to 
SINGAPORE and the ANDAMAN Istanps. The Deccan; on the Ghats from the 
Concan to the Nilghiris.—DrsTRIB. Malay Islands. 
Trunk compressed, 4—5 ft. girth. Leaves 5-7 in., usually black when. dry, 
smooth and shining, reticulations lax ; petiole 3-4 in. Male bracts closely imbricate, 
fem, interrupted. Fruiting spikes 3-10 in. Seed oblong, 1-14 in. long, terete, 
orange-cold., top rounded, narrowed into a very stout stipes about 4 in. long, but 
often much shorter.—Kurz describes the ovarian hairs as rusty, Griffith as white. 
Neither Blume nor Roxburgh describes the silvery scales on the ovule and young seed, 
which Kurz relies on for distinguishing this from G. funiculare. In many specimens 
find no trace of them. The Deccan specimens have stouter male spikes than the 
Eastern, 
Var. ? apoda; seed small 3 in. sessile.—Sikkim Himalaya in the Terai —Perhaps 
a distinct species, but the specimens are very imperfect. 
5. G. funiculare, Blume Nov. Pl. Fam. 32; Ann. Se. Nat. Ser. 2, 
v. 2, 106 ; Rumph. iv. 7; a lofty diccious climber, leaves oblong ovate or 
lanceolate cuspidate or apiculate shining finely reticulate beneath, spikes 
in stiff brachiate panicles, hairs round ovary rusty, seed quite glabrous 
suddenly stipitate, stipes slender. Endl. Conif. 252; Parlat. in DC. Prodr. 
xvi, n, 351; Kurz in Flora lv. (1872) 350; For. Fl. ii. 496; Mig. FI. Ind. 
Bat. ii. 1068 ; Brongn. in Duperr. Voy. Bot. 12. Abatua indica, Lour. FT. 
Coch. 630.—Gnetum, Wall. Cat. 8094 C. 
Assam, Lister; Prov and Burma, Wallich, Kurz. . 
Stem as thick as the arm (Kurz). Leaves 5-7 in. very variable in form and 
breadth, very shining brown or black when dry; base acute or obtuse ; petiole i-$ in. 
Male bracts hardly imbricate, fem. spikes twice as long as in G. scandens, bracts 
interrupted. Seeds 3-1 in. long, oblong, apiculate, stipes {-} in. 
6. G. macropodum, Kurz in Trimen Journ. Bot. xiii. (1875) 331; 
2 lofty climber, leaves broadly oblong or elliptic, fem. spikes rameal panicled, 
«volucres cupular very short, hairs round ovule short ashy yellow, seed 
smooth obtuse apiculate, stipes 1-13 in. long slender. 
P Icona ISLANDs ; at Kamorta, Kurz. . . dv but lash, 
retinas 6-7 by 3}—4 in., base subacute, thinly coriaceous, conspicuous y but laal, 
scand e.—I have seen only fragmentary specimens. Kurz says 5 18 V yn T . 
ens, differing in the less coriaceous leaves and very long stipes of the seed. 
Orpver CXLIV. CONIFERZ. 
n a rees or shrubs, wood-cells studded with disks. Leaves usually alter- 
ate, rigid, linear or subulate, rarely broad, solitary or fascicled in mem- 
