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breadtli '4 to J '5 in., petiole "15 to '3 in. Cymes axillary and terminal, 

 their pedicels several times as long as the petioles, usually 3, tricho- 

 tomous ; the cymules 3- to 10-flowered, pubescent or glabrescent. 

 Flowers sessile, '15 in. long, buds clavate with truncate apices. Calyx 

 cupular, with 8 or 4 small obscure teeth. Petals and stamens of the 

 male flowers and female floivers as iu G. penangiana. Lasianthera 

 lanceolata, Mast, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 585. Stemonurus tomentella, 

 Valetou (not of Beccari) Olacineae, 237. 



Malacca : on Mount Ophir, Griffith. Perak : King's Collector, 

 Wray, Scortechini, common. 



This is rather a variable species as regards the form of leaf and 

 the amount of pubescence on the inflorescence, but the characters of 

 the flowers are constant. For two of the best-marked of these forms 

 I propose varietal names as below. 



Var. angustifolia. King : leaves narrowly oblong-lanceolate, 2 to 

 6 in. long, and '4 to "7 in. broad: frttit ovoid with a long apiculus, also 

 contracted at the base, "5 in. long. Wall. Cat. Olacinese, N"o. 7570. 



Singapore, Wallich. Penang, Curtis, I^os. 737 and 1265. Perak : 

 Scortechini, King's Collector, No. 4211. 



Var. tripUnervis, the two lower lateral main nerves bold and con- 

 tinued nearly to the apex of the leaf. 



Perak ; Scortechini, No. 375. 



3. GoMPHANDRA PENANGIANA, Wall. Cat. 7204. A glabrous or sub- 

 glabrous shrub 3 to 8 feet high ; young shoots thin, pale. Leaves short- 

 ly membranous, oblong, oblong-lanceolate or elliptic, shortly acuminate, 

 the base cuueate ; main nerves 5 to 9 pairs, spreading or ascendino- 

 slightly prominent; length 4*5 to 7 in., breadth 1-5 to 2*75 in., petiole 

 "25 to '35 in. Cymes extra-axillary or leaf -opposed, pubescent, tricho- 

 tomous, spreading, many-flowered, their peduncles longer than the 

 petioles, erect. Flowers '15 in. long, on short glabrous or pubescent 

 pedicels. Calyx a shallow glabrous cup with 3 or 4 obscure bx'oad 

 teeth. Corolla in bud cylindric-clavate, the apex truncate, four or five 

 times as long as the caljx, glabrous. Petals 4, oblanceolate (the apex 

 iiiflexed), hyaline. Filaments flat, thick, tapering to each end, with a 

 tuft of few long pale glandular hairs near the apex behind the insertion 

 of the anther. Rudimentary ovary narrowly ovate, small, half-immersed 

 in the deep fleshy lobed disk. Cymes of female flowers longer than the 

 males, secnnd ; calyx as in the male : corolla absent. Ovary elono-ate, 

 cylindric, glabrous, crowned by a large discoid stigma wider than itself, 

 one-celled with 2 elongated ovules pendulous from the apex. Fruit 

 ovoid or elliptic, constricted at base and apex, vertically ridged, gla- 

 brous, crowned by the persistent stigma, "5 to '7 in. long. Masters in 



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