Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



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G. spicatus. 

 G. paucijlorus 



or tubular. Ovary short, 2- 4-celled ; style filiform, usually exceeding 

 the statninal tube; stigma capitate or cylindric, usually with a ring at 

 its base ; ovules usually one in each cell. Gapsule sub-globose, often 

 beaked, thickly coriaceous, 2- 4-celled. Seeds often enclosed in an 

 imperfect aril ; cotyledons usually peltate. — Distrib. An Indo-Malayan 

 genus of about 22 species. 



Inflorescence only a few inches long, much shorter 

 than the leaves, spike-like, few-flowered ; fruit 

 beaked. 



Flowers "5 in. long, narrowly cylindrical 



in bud 

 Flowers '9 in. long, widely cylindrical in 

 bud 

 Inflorescence extra-axillary, spike-like, a foot long 

 or tipivards, including the peduncle. 



Flowers confined to the terminal two 

 indies of the inflorescence, the pedun- 

 cles very much longer ; flowers "5 or '6 

 in. long, 4-merous, cylindric in bud; 

 fruit beaked 

 Flowers on short lateral branches scattered 

 along the rachis of the inflorescence. 

 Flowers "75 to "1 in. long, 4- or 5- 

 merous, clavate in bud; fruit beaked 

 Flowers 1*25 to 1'5 in. long, cylin- 

 dric in bud ; petals 7 to 9 ; fruit 

 not beaked 

 Flowers on distant lateral glomeruli 1*25 

 to J "5 in. long; petals 5; fruit sub- 

 globular, not beaked 

 Inflorescence extra-axillary, paniculate. 



Young shoots, under surfaces of leaves, 

 petioles, and inflorescence pubescent or 

 tomentose. 



Panicles as long as the leaves ; flowers 



•25 in, long ; petals 4, anthers much 



exserted from staminal tube 



Panicles about half as long as the 



leaves; flowers "45 in. long; anthers 



included in staminal tube 



Rachises of leaves and both surfaces of 



leaflets minutely pubescent ; panicles 



3. G. Kunstleri. 



4. G. penduUflorus , 



5. G. ruhiginosus. 



6.G. 



princeps. 



G. glomeratus. 



8. 0. erythrocarpus. 



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