120 Materials for a Flara of tht^ Malayan Peninsula. 



122) follows Scheffei', adopts his modified definition of Gonocarytim, and 

 adds two new species viz., G. Selehicum, and (at p. 256), G. ajffine. In 

 my opinion Gonucaryum and Phlehocalymna are not identical. 



The flowers of the two species P. Grip,t}dana and P. Lohbianum 

 (which are accepted as constituting the genus Phlehocalymna) have the 

 calyx gamosepaloiis, deeply 5-lobed, the petals only twice as long as the 

 calyx, fleshy, cohering by their edges, biit quite sepai-able from eacli 

 other, their apices fleshy and inflexed ; the buds being shortly cylindrical 

 and obtuse, and the fruit elliptic (not 4-gonous), slightly striate, obtuse 

 at each end with a bony (not spongy) and strictly 1-celled endocarp, and 

 there being no trace whatever of an abortive loculus. If the defini- 

 tion of the genus Phlehocalymna be amended in these particulars to it cer- 

 tainly belongs G. pyriforme, Scheff. And, judging from the description, 

 (for I have not seen specimens ) G. Teysmannianum Sch.e'S:. and G. Selebi 

 Becc, with almost equal certainty belong to Gonocaryum. About the 

 allocation of G. affine, Becc, the description in Malesia I, 256, is too 

 incomplete to enable me to form an opinion. 



Racemes 5 to 12 in. in length, flowers 



•2 in. long. ... ... ... 1. G. longe-racemosum. 



Racemes under 3 in. long : flowers '1 in. long 2. G. gracile. 



1. Gonocaryum longe-racemosum. King, n. sp. A small glabrous 

 tree. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, shortly acuminate, the base 

 sliLrhtly narrowed ; main nerves about 4 pairs, ascending, prominent on 

 the lower, depressed on the upper surface, length 5 to 7 in., breadth 2"25 

 to 35 in., petiole '3 to '6 in. Racemes axillary or from the stem and 

 larger branches, puberulous, slender, 5 to 12 in. long. Flowers '2 in. 

 long, irregularly disposed on the rachis, sometimes in pairs ; their pedi- 

 cels '1 in. long, pubescent. Sepals 6, ovate, imbricate, puberulous. 

 Corolla tubular, the teeth small and recurved. Fruit obovoid-elliptic, 

 with 4 very bold vertical ridges and numerous striae, 1*5 to 2 in. long, 

 and 1 in. in diam., glabrescent ; mesocarp very thick, spongy, distinctly 

 2-celled, the aborted cell narrowly cylindric. 



Singapore ; Hullett, No. 851 ; Ridley, No. 4750. Perak ; King's 

 Collector, Nos. 7397, 7663 ; Scortechiui. 



2. Gonocaryum gracile, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 343. A shrub? 

 Leaves as in the last, but slightly obovate. Racemes under 3 in. in 

 length, and the flowers only about "1 in. long, fruit 1*5 in. long. Kurz 

 in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. for 1875, II, 155 ; For. Flora Burma, I, 240. 

 G. Wallichii, Mast. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 590 ; Beccari, Malesia, I, 122 ; 

 Valeton Olacinese, 245 : Platea Griffithiana, Miers Contrib. I, 97, {not 

 Phlehocalymna, Griff). Gonocaryum? Wallichii, Mast, in Hook. fil. 

 Fl. Br. Ind. I, 590 (note). 



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