114 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Incl. I, 587. Stemonurus penangianus, Miers Conlrib. 

 I, 90 ; Kurz For. Flor. Burm. I, 238. Wall. Cat. 3718. G. axillaris 

 (in part). 



Penang ; Wallich, Curtis. Perak ; Scortechini, King's Collector, 

 Wray ; very common. 



4. GoMPHANDRA NYSSiFOLiA, King. A tree 15 to 40 feet high ; 

 young branches dark-coloured, slightly winged under the nodes. 

 Leaves coriaceous, elliptic-ovate, abruptly and shortly acuminate, the 

 base cuneate; main nerves rather straight, ascending, prominent on the 

 lower surface, the transverse veins distinct, ovary sub-horizontal ; length 

 3"5 to 5*5 in., breadth 2 to 2"5 in., petiole "3 in. Gymes axillary, some- 

 times 2 together, their pedicels shorter than or as long as the petioles ; 

 flowers 4 to 6, sessile, '25 in. long. Female flower : calyx cupular, with 

 5 minute distant teeth or sub-entire ; petals 5, puberulous outside, 

 5 or 6 times as long as the calyx. Filaments flat, with a few white 

 short hairs just below the anther, especially in front. Disk adherent 

 to the base of the ovary, glabrous. Ovary cylindric, as long as the 

 petals, puberulous, crowned by the large discoid lobed stigma. Fruit 

 ellipsoid, slightly clavate, glabrous, ridged, crowned by the persistent 

 stigma, '8 in. long, and "35 in. in diam. 



Perak : Scortechini, King's Collector, Nos. 6406 and 6984. 

 I have not seen the true male flowers of this species. 



5. G-OMPHANDRA Maingati, King. A glabrous shrub 4 to 6 feet high ; 

 young branches rather stout, dark-coloured, glabrous. Leaves sub- 

 coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate and acuminate, or sub-rhomboidal acute, 

 the base cuneate ; main nerves 5 or 6 pairs, rather straight, ascending, 

 prominent beneath; length 2 to 35 in., breadth '9 to 1'2 in., petiole 

 •25 in. Peduncles longer than the petiole, slender ; cymules 2 or 3, um- 

 bellulate, each 4- to 5-flowered. Floivers '15 in. long, sessile. Calyx 

 cupular, tomentose, with 4 or 5 shallow teeth. Petals 5, four or five 

 times as long as the calyx, rather thick, oblong, sub-acuminate, the 

 apex inflexed, the midrib dark. Filaments pointed at the apex and with 

 small tufts of long white sub-apical hairs ; anthers pendulous from the 

 apex of the filaments. Rudimentary ovary and disk absent. Female flower 

 unknown. Fruit (fide Masters) ovoid, "25 to "5 in. long, 1-celled, I-seeded. 

 Stemonurus Maingayi, Valeton Olacinese, 236. Lasianthera Maingayi, 

 Mast, in Hook. Fl. Br. Ind. 1, 585. 



Malacca: Maingay (Kew Distrib.), No. 374^. Penang : Curtis. 



Known only by Maingay 's and Curtis's scanty specimens. It is pos- 

 sible that under these there may really be two species : for Maingay's 

 specimens divide themselves into two sets ; one with sub-rhomboid acute 

 leaves which bear the flowers described above ; the other with narrowly 



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