Tab. 7391. 

 GMELINA HrsTRix. 



Native of the Philippine Islands. 



Nat. Ord. VerbenacEjE. — Tribe Viticejb. 

 Genus Gmelina, Linn.; {Benth. & Hook.f. Gen. Plant, vol. ii. p. 1153.) 



Gmelina Hystrix; frntex scandens, spinosns, ramulis junioribus hispido- 

 pubesoentibus, foliis glabris subtus sparse glandulosis, aliis elliptico- 

 oblougis obtusis v. subacutis aliis minoribus latioribus obtuse lobatis, spicis 

 strobiliformibus terminalibus breviusculis, bracteis amplis tumidis ovato- 

 rotundatis acuminatis 5-nervis pulcherrime rubro-venulosis, calyce brevi 

 obtuse 5-dentato hirto pauci-glanduloso, corollae aureae tubo e basi 

 angusto campanulato infra orem inflato curvo, limbi labio superiore 3- 

 lobo, lobis brevibus late ovato-rotundatis recurvis inferiore triplo longiore 

 ovato obtuso, filamentis anticis glandulosis, posticis multo minoribus 

 glabris, drupa obovoidea. 



G. Hystrix, Schult. ex Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. vol. xxxix. (1870) pt. ii. 

 p. 81. Villar, in Blanco FLjilip. vol. iii. Nov. App. p. 159. 



A very little known plant, of which the first published 

 description is by the late S. Kurz, a first-rate Indian 

 Botanist, and author of '* The Forest Flora of Burma," 

 who was for some time an employe in the Herbarium of 

 the Botanic Garden of Buitenzorg (Batavia), and latterly 

 Curator of that of the Calcutta Gardens. Kurz's description 

 of it is apparently made from specimens grown in the 

 gardens of Bankok, Siam, and preserved in the Buitenzorg 

 Herbarium ; and as to the name and authority of Schult, 

 he says, " I found it attached to the plant; in the Library 

 of the Botanic Gardens, Buitenzorg, but I am unable, at 

 present, to give a reference to the work in which it 

 occurred." The Kew Herbarium contains several specimens 

 of it from Siam, collected by the late Sir K. Schomburgk, 

 and the late Mr. Murton, when Superintendent of the 

 Botanic Gardens of Bankok, who says of it, " apparently 

 wild at Bankok." There are also specimens sent from the 

 Natal Botanic Gardens as a Siam plant. On the other 

 hand, there are undoubtedly indigenous specimens from 

 the Philippine Islands, from Cuming (No. 1913), aDd from 

 December 1st, 1894. 



