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text relating to pi. 167. (Synon. G. helicterifoUa Wall. Cat. 

 No. 1090 a, non ex Koyle.) 



Hilly places in Bengal and Assam : a rather low shrub, possibly 

 an eastern race of the preceding. 



(/) G. hirsitta Vahl, non Smith in Eees Cyclop., nee (quoad 

 local.) DC. Prodr. i. 509. (Synon. G. tomentosa Koxb. Fl. Ind. 

 ii. 589, in adnot. sub No. 13, G. iwlygama; non Juss.) 



A small tree or straggling shrub, the old stems quadrangular 

 in section; abundant, especially on hills, throughout southern and 

 eastern tropical India, disappearing towards the west and north. 



Closely allied species occupy the regions further east, such as 

 G. Immilis Wall. (Irrawaddy to Shan States), G. Z/acei Drummond 

 & Craib in Kew Bull. 1911, 21 (North-east Burma to Siam) ; but 

 none of the group have been observed west of the Suliman Moun- 

 tains — within the Himalayan ranges proper — or beyond them 

 northwards. It has been suggested that at least some of these 

 " Hirsute " should be regarded as climatic forms of a single highly 

 variable species, but except as regards helicterifoUa, and polygama 

 possibly, the writer, after study, cannot bring himself into agree- 

 ment with this view. 



Koxburgh's No. 12, " G. ])Uosa," has not been yet accounted 

 for. As has been already shown, we cannot now ascertain what 

 actual plant or plants he had before him ; but the probability 

 seems to be that the material from the interior parts of Bengal 

 (corresponding to the Monghyr Hills habitat of Bengal Plants, i. 

 284) was G. helicterifoUa Wall, ex Koyle. Any way, no part of 

 Eoxburgh's '' lyilosa " has any concern with pilosa Lamarck, which 

 is simply a synonym of G. orientalis Linn, (non Smith), nor yet 

 with the yilosa of Smith in Eees Cyclop, xvii. No. 4, s. v. Greioia, 

 which was really = G. fiavescens Juss. 



It remains to dispose of Eoxburgh's " No. 8," which stands 

 first in Carey, as also in the MSS. so far examined. It is proposed 

 to deal with the original opiiositifolia, which is the plant published 

 by De Candolle under that name (Prodr. i. 509), and subsequently 

 described by Wight & Arnott (Prodr. 79) as G. emarginata, in 

 connection with G. orientalis, when the nomenclature of either 

 " oppositifolia " will have to be considered. Meantime it is enough 

 to show here the distribution of the two species thus : — 



(I) G. oppositifolia Buchanan ex DC. Prodr. i. 509 (1824). 

 Synon. G. emarginata Wight & Arnott, Prodr.- Fl. Pen. Ind. Or. 

 (1834) p. 79. 



A shrub, often of scrambhng habit, locally frequent on the 

 main Carnatic plateau, southern tropical India. 



(II) G. oppositifoUa Eoxb. hort. beng. p. 42, ex G. Don, Gen. 

 Syst. i. 548 (1831). Synon. G. oppositifoUa Buch. ex Eoxb. Fl. 

 Ind. (ed. Carey, 1832) ii. 583. G. oiypositifolia Benth. ex Aitch. 

 Cat. PL Panj. and Sindh (1809), p. 25. G. oppositifolia Eoxb. Fl. 

 Ind. ii. 583, ex Masters in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 384 (1875), non 

 Buchan. ex DC. Prodr. i. 509 (1824) ; also Collett, Fl. Siml. 63, 

 cum fig. p. 62 ; also Brandis, Indian Trees, p. 95 ; also Gamble, 

 Indian Timbers (1902 ed.), p. 109. G. oppositifolia Buch-Ham. ex 



