382 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



place and several faint lateral lines, about 3 in. long and 5 to "75 in. 

 broad. Ventilago macrocarpa, King MSS. 



Perak : common. Penang : Curtis, No. 1751. 



Var. pubescens, young branches tomentose ; leaves pubescent on 

 the under surface. 



Perak: Scortechini, No. 21 ]0; King's Collector, No. 7726. 



3. Smythea calpicarpa, Kurz Journ. As. See. Bengal, Vol. XLI, 

 (for 3872) pt. 2, p. 301 ; For. Flora Burma I, 264. Young branches 

 sparsely tawny-pubescent. Leaves lanceolate, acuminate, remotely 

 crenate-serrate ; both surfaces glabrous but for a few scanty hairs on the 

 6 or 6 pairs of ascending slightlj^ curving lateral nerves ; length 2*25 

 to 2"75 in., breadth 8 to 1 in. ; petiole 35 in., tomentose. Fascicles 3- 

 to 10-flowered ; the flowers '15 in. in diam., pedicellate. Calyx hirsute 

 outside ; disc aud ovary minutely tomentose. Fruit (unripe) coriaceous, 

 oblong, obliquely truncate at the apex, minutely tawny-tomentose. 



Andaman Islands: Heifer (Kew Distrib.), No. 2026/1; King's 

 Collectors. 



6. GoDANiA, Linn. 



Unarmed climbing shrubs. Leaves alternate, petiolate. Flowers 

 polygamous, in axillary or terminal spikes of cymes ; rachis often cirrhose. 

 Calyx superior, 5-fid ; tube short, obconic. Petals 5, inserted below the 

 margin of the disk, hooded. Stamens 5, enfolded by the petals. Disc 

 filling the calyx-tube, 5-angled or stellate. Ocary sunk in the disc, 

 3-celled ; style 3-cleft. Fruit inferior, coriaceous, crowned by the 

 persistent limb of the calyx, 3-winged or boldl}'' 3-angled, dehiscent. 

 DiSTiUB. About 50 species all tropical and mostly American. 



Leaves entire ; fruit triquetrous ... 1. G. Andamanica. 



Leaves creuate or serrate ; fruit winged 

 Young branches glabrous ; disc-lobes ob- 

 long, truncate-emarginate at the apex ... 2. 0. leptostachya. 

 Young branches rufous-tomentose ; disc- 

 lobes lineal*, acuminate ... ... 3. G. Javanica. 



1. GouANiA Andamanica, King n. sp. Young branches ferru- 

 gineous-pubescent, the older almost glabrous and striate. Leaves oblong- 

 ovate, sub-acute, entire, narrowed to the ba-se ; both surfaces, but 

 especially the lower, sparsely adpressed-pubescent ; length 1*5 to 35 in., 

 breadth '75 to 2 in., petiole '4 to 6 in. Spikes 3 to 9 in. long, some- 

 times cirrhiferons near the base, slender, rufous-pubescent. Flotcers 

 in distant 3-4-flowered cymes, sessile ; bracteoles numerous, linear- 

 lanceolate, rufous-pubescent. Disc glabrous, with 5 linear lobes. Styles 

 united near the base, ovary densely tomentose. Frtdt oblong, boldly 



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