112 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula, 



Filaments with a few white hairs on the 

 posterior surface. 



Cymes axillary or terminal ... 2. Q. laticeolata. 



Cymes extra-axillary or leaf-opposed ... 3. G. penangiana. 

 Flowers 5-merous. 



Filaments hairy near the apex. 



Cymes on stout short peduncles, ovary 



hairy, fruit "8 in. long ... ... 4. (?. nyssifolia. 



Cymes on slender peduncles, ovary 

 glabrous 



Pedicels of cymes less than half 

 the length of the leaves ; fruit 

 •25 to "5 in. long ... ... h. G. Maingayi. 



Pedicels of cymes half as long as 

 the leaves ; fruit '65 in. long, im- 

 perfectly 2-celled ... ... &. G. gracilis. 



Filaments quite glabrous ... ... 7. G. andamanica. 



1. GoMPHANDRA COMOSA, King, n. sp. A glabrous tree or shrub, 

 young branches cinereous. Leaves thinly coriaceous, oblong to elliptic- 

 oblong, shortly acuminate, much narrowed at the base ; main nerves 

 6 to 8 pairs, sub-ascending, faint ; length 3-5 to 6 in., breadth 1-5 to 

 2 in petiole '35 to "6 in. Cymes on slender pedicels about as long as 

 the petioles, umbellulate ; cymules 3 to 5, each with 2 to 3 flowers. 

 Flowers sessile, '2 in. long, the buds obovate-globose. Calyx shallow, the 

 edo-e wavy and obscui-ely 4- or 5-toothed. Petals 4, four or five times 

 lono-er than the calyx, broadly oblong, obtuse, with an inflexed sub-apical 

 point, glabrous. Connective and upper part of filament densely cov- 

 ered with long, white, glandular-pointed hairs. Ovary short, ovoid, conic, 

 immersed in the fleshy annular disk, style short. Fruit narrowly 

 ellipsoid, glabrous, vertically grooved, 1 in. long, and '4 in. in diam., 

 epicarp thin, endocarp cartilaginous, one-celled, 1 -seeded. 



S.Andaman; King's Collector's.— Distrib. Java. 



The hairs on the filameuts are white and very numerous, and they 

 have conspicuous glandular apices. The ovary above described is .that 

 found in flowers bearing perfect anthers. It is probable that it aborts, 

 and that fertile ovaries are confined to flowers (as yet undiscovered) in 

 which the stamens are imperfect. 



2. GOMPHANDRA LANCEOLATA, King. A shrub 5 or 6 feet high; 

 vouno- branches thin, puberulous. Leaves sub-coriaceous, lanceolate or 

 oblong-lanceolate, sometimes very narrow, acuminate, the base cuneate ; 

 upper surface glabrous, the lower sparsely puberulous; main nerves 

 about 5 pairs, spreading; the tips ascending, faint; length 2 to 6 in., 



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