Vidal, collected in the Province of Laguna (No. 3433) ; 

 and the latter author gives, in his edition of Blanco's 

 "Flora de Filipinas," several localities for it in the 

 Archipelago. I think, therefore, it may be assumed that 

 this beautiful plant has been introduced into Siam from 

 the Philippines ; and from Siam into India and Natal. 



Plants of Gmelina Hy stria were sent to Kew from the 

 gardens of H.H. the Gaekwar of Baroda, by Mr. Goldring, 

 Superintendent of his Highness's gardens and plantations^ 

 who says of it, "that it forms a sturdy shrub, and that 

 the bracts there are higher coloured than those repre- 

 sented in the plate." At Kew the plant is grown in the 

 Water-Lily House, trained against the glass roof, where it 

 has the habit of a Bougainvillea, and flowers freely. 



Descr .—A scandent stout shrub, more or less spinescent, 

 no doubt according as it is grown in a damp or drier 

 climate ; branchlets and shoots hispidly pubescent. Leaves 

 petioled, dimorphic, bright green above, pale below, where 

 there occur scattered globose glands ; in one form of the 

 leaves these are 4-6 in. long, elliptic-oblong, subacute, in 

 the other they are shorter, broader, and with shallow 

 WDes; petiole appressed hairy, about half an inch long. 

 flowers subsessile, in short, dense, terminal, drooping, 

 cone-like sessile spikes, formed of very large imbricating, 

 convex, broadly ovate, acuminate bracts, one to one and a 

 halt inches long and broad, beautifully veined with red. 

 wiL i ' £ u P- sha P ed > strigose ; lobes four, very short 

 and broad Corolla nearly three inches long, golden- 

 yenow; tube curved, campanulate, and gibbously inflated 

 trom a narrow base; limb 2-lipped ; upper lip of 3 short, 

 broad rounded recurved lobes ; lower much longer, pro- 

 truded, ovary obtuse. Stamens 4, the two anticoSs much 

 form g c, 7 Wlth £ lanc,ular filaments. Anthers subreni- 

 obovoidf-J D.7. ^ DrUpe nearly an inch lon S' 



4. bafkofamher- 5 vSl^i ^ Btj !f ; 3 ' portion of corolla and stamens; 

 AH but 6 more or L; e^S ° f 0Yar ^ 6 > d rupe (W the Herbarium) :- 



