Tas. 4395. 
GMELINA Rueepu. 
Rheede’s Gmelina. 
Nat. Ord. VerBENaAcE®.—D1ipyNamia GYMNOSPERMIA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx cyathimorphus, 4—5-dentatus, persistens, sub fructu paulo 
auctus in antica parte seepius glandulas nonnullas sessiles verruciformes gerens. 
Corolla basi tubulosa, faucibus valde ampliatis ventricoso-campanulata, obliqua ; 
limbus patens bilabiato-quadrifidus, lobis tribus superioribus subaequalibus supremo 
fornicato lateralibus planis, quarto infimo maximo interdum bilobo. Stamina 4, 
didynama, ascendentia, vix exserta. _duthere biloculares, loculis linearibus 
connectivo dorsali apice insertis postice (imprimis staminum longiorum) dis- 
tinetis, rima longitudinali dehiscentibus. Ovariwm 2-8-loculare, loculis uni- 
ovulatis. Stylus filiformis ; s¢igma ineequaliter bifidum. Drupa baccata, mono- 
pyrena, 2—4-locularis, putamine osseo basi perforato levi. Semen erectum,— 
Frutices vel arbores interdum magne, ex India orientali ejusque Archipelago, ramis 
sepius spinosis, foliis simplicibus oppositis integerrimis lobatisve. Inflorescentia 
cymoso-paniculata ; panicula racemiformis, aut composita e cymulis brevibus de- 
cussatis paucifioris aut cymulis ad unum florem pedicello bibracteolato fultum re- 
ductis racemum simplicem mentiens. Bractex sepius caduce. Corolla conspicua. 
Drupa magna oblonga. Schauer in DC. 
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GMELINA Rheedii ; subarborea inermis tota molliter pubescens, foliis longe petio- 
latis rhombeo-cordatis brevi-acuminatis nunc trilobis basi (planta recente 
obsoletissime)biglandulosis subtus cinerascenti-tomentosis, thyrso multifloro, 
bracteis ovatis acutis brevissimis, calyce tomentoso subcylindraceo-hemis- 
phzerico acute 4-dentato, corolla extus pubescentis limbo amplo_ bilabiato 
lobis 5 subequalibus rotundatis inferiore magis elongato marginibus (om- 
nium) reflexis. 
Cumsuxu, Rheede, Hort. Malab. v.1. p. 4i. 
From the stove of the Royal Gardens of Kew, where it has been 
So long cultivated that the period of its introduction is not known, 
nor does it appear (probably from not having previously blossomed) 
to have been recognised as a Gielina; none of the genus having 
been recorded in either edition of the Hortus Kewensis, nor, SO 
far as I know, has any been supposed to be in cultivation in 
Britain. The present one, if space be given to it, is worthy of 
4 place in the stove. It flowered with us in May, 1848. 
pecting the species I do not find it to accord with any descri- 
-by Schauer in De Candolle. It comes nearest to G. arborea, 
SEPTEMBER Ist, 1848. 
