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diyerging. Disc 4-lobed. Ovary immersed in the disc, 4-lobed, 4- 

 celled ; style short, stigma capitate ; ovules solitary and pendulous from 

 the top of each cell. Gapsule subglobose, coriaceous, 1-4-celled. 1-4- 

 seeded. Seeds as in Euonymtis. — Distrib. Species 7.,; in Ceylon, Southern 

 India, and Malayan Peninsula. 



Leaves 2*5 to 3-5 in, long ... ... 1. G. Scortechinii. 



„ 6 to 12 in. long ... . ... '2. G. quadrangulare. 



1. Gltptopetalum Scortechinii, n. sp. King. Young branches 

 terete, striate. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic, often slightly obovate, very 

 shortly and obtusely cuspidate, the edges with a few remote obscure 

 serratures in the upper third, the base cuneate ; main nerves 8 to 10 

 pairs, spreading, much curved, very faint and not m ore prominent than 

 the intermediate and secondary nerves ; length 2"5 to 3'5 in., breadth 

 1'35 to 1'75 in., petioles '25 in. Floivering pedioncles rather stout, supra- 

 axillary, 1*5 to nearly 2 in. long ; pedicels 2 or 3, under an inch in 

 length. Fruit broadly obovate, deeply 5-lobed, glabrous, "45 in. long, 

 the 5 sub-rotund reflexed sepals persistent at its base. 



Perak : Scovtechini, No. 1617. 



A species collected only by the late Rev. Father Scortecliini, whose 

 specimens are not in flower. He referred the plant to Fuonymus, but 

 the solitary ovules in the cells of the immature fruit show that its 

 place is in Glyptopetalum. 



2. Glyptopexalum quadeangdlare, Prain MSS. in Herb. Oalc. A 

 shrub 8 to 15 feet high; young bi*anches boldly 4-angled, narrowly 

 winged. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic or elliptic-oblong, shortly acumi- 

 nate, obscurely and remotely serrate in the upper half, the base rounded 

 or cuneate ; both surfaces buUate, the upper shining, the lower dull ; 

 main nerves 10 to 12 pairs, when dry much depressed on the upper and 

 very prominent on the lower surface, the reticulations wide and dis- 

 tinct ; length 6 to 12 in., breadth 25 to 5 in., petiole '3 to "6 in. 

 Cymes much shorter than the leaves, dichotomous, minutely 2-bracteolate 

 at the bifurcations, axillary, few-flowered, on slender peduncles 

 I'5 to 2 in. long (nearly twice as long in fruit). Flmvers 3 in. in 

 diam., their pedicels 25 in, long (longer in fruit). Sepals As, nar- 

 rowly reniform, entire. Petals 4, attached to the edges of the thick 

 fleshy 4-lobed disc, much longer than the sepals, broadly rotund-reni- 

 form, clawed, the edges incurved, smooth. Anthers reniform ; the cells 

 on short thin filaments, sub-orbicular. Ovary sunk in the disc, the 

 capitate stigma alone projecting, 4-celled : ovules solitary. Fruit de- 

 pressed, obtusely 4-angIed, capsular, "4 to "6 in. in diam. 



Perak : Scortechini No. 524. Wary No. 3229 : King's Collector 

 Nos. 7106, 8222. 



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