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petiole "IS to '2 in, Stiptdes very minute. Flotvers 1"5 in. in diam., 

 in short lateral panicles, tKe pedicels 1 in. or more in length. Sepals 

 ovate or lanceolate, usually reflexed in fruit. Petals larger than the 

 sepals. Anthers linear, deciduous, shorter than the filiform persistent 

 filaments. Styles longer than the stamens, cuneate to the apex, or the 

 apices free and spreading. Drupes ovoid, about "6 in. long. Hook. fil. 

 Fl. Br. Ind. (excl. syn. 0. stipulacea, Colebr. MSS.). 0. nitida, Wall. 

 Cat. 2894. (not of Thunbg.) ; Planch, in Hook. Journ. Bot. V, 653 ; 

 Kurz For. Fl. Burm. I, 205. 0. squarrosa, Kurz Andaman Report 

 IV (not of Linn.). 0. amlamanica, Kurz Andam. Rep. Ed. II, 33; 

 Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, for 1872, pt. 2, 295 ; For. Flora Burm. I, 205. 

 0. obtusata, DC. Wall. Cat. 2805, B. 



Andaman Islands. — Distrib. Burmah. 



Kurz distinguished his species 0. aiidamanica by the styles being 

 free and spreading at their apices, while the fruiting sepals are reflexed. 

 But I do not find that these two characters are at all constantly asso- 

 ciated. In other respects, Kurz's characters of 0. Wallichii, and 0. 

 andamanica are identical. 0. stipulacea, Colebr., reduced to this by 

 Mr. A. W. Bennett, in Fl. Br. Ind., appears to me to be distinct. 



2. GoMPHiA, Schreb. 



Glabrous trees or shi'ubs. Leaves alternate, shining, 2-stipulate. 

 Flowers yellow, in axillary or terminal racemes or umbels. Sepals 5, 

 coloured, persistent. Petals 5, imbricate. Disc thick, lobed. Stamens 

 10, inserted at the base of the disc, filaments very short, anthers open- 

 ing by terminal pores. Ovary deeply 5-6-lobed, lobes 1-celled ; styles 

 connate, stigma simple ; ovules solitary in each cell, erect. Drupes 5 or 

 fewer, seated on a broad disc, 1-seeded. Seed erect, exalbuminous. — 

 DiSTBiB. Chiefly tropical South American : a few iu Asia and Africa. 

 Species about 80. 



Flowers in diffuse panicles ... ... 1. G. sumatrana. 



Flowers in corymbs ... ... ... 2. G. Hookeri. 



1. GoMPHiA SUMATRANA, Jack in Mai. Misc. No. 5, p. 29 ; Hook. 

 Bot. Misc. II., 77. A tree 22 to 40 feet high ; young branches 

 slender, pale. Leaves coriaceous, narrowly elliptic-oblong, tapering to 

 each end, the edges serrulate or sub-entire ; main nerves numerous, 

 sub -horizontal, very faint, as are the reticulations ; intramarginal nerves 

 from base to apex, two or three, rather distinct when dry ; length 3'5 

 to 7 in., breadth 1*15 to 225 in., petiole •15 in. PamcZes terminal, 

 longer than the leaves, branching. Flowers numerous, '35 in. in diara. 

 Sepals narrowly ovate, veined. Petals larger than the sepals, broad, 

 retuse and inflexed at the apex. Anthers linear, much longer than 



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