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King's Collector Nos. 3312, 10750; Wray No. 1279. Penang: Curtis 

 No. 1685. Pahang Ridley No. 4765. 



This species, although a much smaller tree, very much resembles 

 C. divergens, Bl. iu its leaves and inflorescence. The leaflets, however, 

 are of a thicker texture than those of G. divergens and they dry of a 

 different colour. The flowers of the two are almost exactly alike in 

 structure; but those of G. divergens are yellow and very fragrant, while 

 those of G. patens are greenish- white and have a disagreeable odour like 

 that of Paederia foetida and of some species of Ltisiantlius. The fruits 

 of the two moreover differ, those of O divergens being turbinate- 

 globular or nearly so, of a yellow colour, and more or less tomentose ; 

 while the fruits of G. patens are of a deep red colour and glabrous when 

 quite ripe. I have compared the type specimens of G. patens, Bl. and 

 of G. holocalyx, Hiern., deposited, respectively, at Leiden and Kew, and 

 I find the two to be identical. 



14, Chesocheton divergens, Blume, Bijdr. 169. A tree 40 to 100 

 feet high ; young branches glabrous, the bark dark-coloured. Leaves 

 9 to 18 in. long, the main raehis deciduously puberulous ; leaflets 4 to 12 

 pairs, membranous, opposite or sub-opposite, narrowly oblong or oblong- 

 lanceolate, shortly acuminate, slightly narrowed to the rounded or 

 slightly cuneate unequal base ; both surfaces glabrous, reticulate, the 10 

 to 12 pairs of cuiwing ascending nerves prominent on the lower when 

 dry; length 2"5 to 6 in., breadth 1'15 to 1"76 in., petiolules "IS to "25 

 in. Panicles solitary, supra-axillary, pendulous, about as long as the 

 leaves, pyramidal, the lower branches of the male panicles 6 or 7 in. 

 long, of the female 4 or 5 in., the ultimate branchlets of both cyme-like, 

 dense, manj^-flowered. Male Flowers '25 in. long, on short pubescent 

 pedicels. Galyx cupular, puberulous, the mouth entire or waved. Petah 

 4, three or four times as long as the calyx and slightly longer than the 

 staminal-tube, recurved, elliptic, obtuse, sub-glabrous. Staminal-tube 

 free from the petals, widely tubular, glabrous except a few strong 

 hairs at the throat, the mouth with 6 lanceolate spreading teeth ; an- 

 thers 6, linear-elongate, about as long as the teeth of the calyx. Ovary 

 small, surrounded by a narrow fleshy glabrous disc ; style oylindric, pu- 

 bescent ; stigma small, disc-like with an aunulus at its base. Female 

 flowers like the males, but usually without anthers ; the ovary ovoid- 

 conic, pubescent. Fruit obovoid or depi'essed-globose, tapering at the 

 base into a pseudo-stalk, minutely tomentose, 1"5 in. in diam., 2-eeHed, 

 seeds about 2. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. T, Pt. 2, 537 ; Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. 

 IV. 28 ; C. De Cand. Mon. Phan. I, 529. G. fra.gr ans, Kievn in Hook, 

 fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 551 ; C. DeCand. 1. c. 529. 



Malacca : Griffith, No. 1062/1 Maingay, (Kew Distrib.) No. 324. 



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