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olilong-lanceolate leaves and "wliicli have neither flowers nor fruit. It 

 is possible that the second set belong to an undescribed species. 



6. GOMPHANDRA. GRACILIS, King, n. sp. A glabrous shrub or small 

 tree ; young branches thin, pale. Leaves membranous, lanceolate or 

 ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, the base much narrowed, the edges slightly 

 recurved when dry, wavy and sub-crenulate ; main nerves 6 or 7 pairs, 

 spreading, faint. Peduncles axillary and terminal, nearly half as long 

 as the leaves ; the cymes trichotomous, compound, the ultimate cymules 

 umbellate. Male flowers "I in. long, the buds sub-globular ; Calyx 

 cupular, shallow, with 5 minute teeth ; petals 6, oblong, glabrous, re- 

 flexed, 4 or 5 or 6 times as long as the calyx. Filaments 5, thin, flat, 

 attenuate upwards, bearing a tuft of white bulbous-pointed hairs below 

 the small anther. Female flower with calyx and abortive stamens like 

 the male, the petals (if any) deciduous. Ovary long, cylindric, glabrous, 

 crowned by the large pileate stigma, 2-celled, one of the cells usually 

 empty, the other with a single long ovule suspended from its apex. 

 Fruit ellipsoid, flat on one side, curved, glabrous, striate, about '65 in. 

 long, imperfectly 2-celled ^nd with a single pendulous seed. 



Perak : Wray, King's Collector ; common. 



A species readily distinguished by its small flowers globular in 

 bud, and by its curved imperfectly 2-celled fruit. 



7. GoMPHANDRA ANDAMAKICA, King. A tree ; young branches 

 tawny-puberulous. Leaves thinly coriaceous, oblong or elliptic, shortly 

 and rather abruptly acuminate, the base round or narrowed, sometimes 

 oblique ; main nerves 8 or 9 pairs, curved, ascending, prominent be- 

 neath and depressed above when dry ; length 5 to 8 in., breadth 2 to 3 

 in., petiole *! to "6 in. Cymes in the axils of leaves or of fallen leaves, 

 often 2 together, "5 to '8 in. in diam., many-flowered, dense, rusty- 

 pubescent, their peduncles stout and '4 or "S in. long. Flowers nearly 

 •15 in. long, sessile, globose-obovate in bud. Calyx cupular, thin, irregu- 

 larly and minutely 4-5-toothed, tomentose externally, and glabrous in- 

 ternally like the petals. Petals 5, oblong-oblanceolate, spreading, the 

 apices curved, three times as long as the calyx. Male flowers : sta- 

 mens 5, as long as the petals, free, the filaments quite glabrous ; dish 

 hypogynous, fleshy, embracing the base of the narrowly ovoid small 

 rudimentary ovary. Female flower : calyx as in the male ; petals and 

 stamens not seen ; ovary narrowly ellipsoid, with a short constriction 

 at the apex, stigma disciform. Fruit compressed-ellipsoid, about 1 in. 

 long, slightly convex on one side, deeply grooved on the other ; the 

 pericarp glabrous, vertically striate, thin; the endocarp leathery, 2-celled, 

 one cell without a seed, and divided by vertical false dissepiments into 

 several chambers, the other cell occupied by a single pendulous flat seed 



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