AfaferiaU for a Flora of the Mahtyan Pcninsnla. 483 



tnwnrds the base : ovary ol>o void-rotund, tonientose ; llie style lateral, 

 elougafe. Fruit unkiiowu. 



Perak : Wray, No. 2290. 



This differs from G. coarctufa, Griff, in its longer leaf-po(ioles, 

 shorter panicles, broader petals and snb-obovate-rotund, tomentose ovary. 

 It has been liithei'to collected only once by Mr. Wiay : fruit is as vet 

 unknown. 



Note.— Kvirz f Pegu Report 41, and in Jnurn. As. Soc. Bengal for 1876, pt. 2, p 210 ) 

 i^sfei-s (under the niinio G. petiolnta) to ii tree which he hud seen common on the 

 shores of tlie Andamnns, but of which he had collected neither flowers nor fruit. 

 The specimens to which he has attached this name in the Cnlcatta Herbarium do 

 not, however, appear to me to be those of a phint of this genus. 

 6. Ml!:LANOIiTJll<EA, Wall. 



Trees with much oleo-resiiious juice. Leaves alternate, simple, quite 

 entire, coriaceous. Ptnu'o/es axillary or terminal. i^?o?<;e;s rather large, 

 hennaphroJite. Sepals 5, united, calyptriform or collar-like, deciduous. 

 I'efals 5-8, linear-oblong, imbricnte, much enlaiged in fruit. IHsc 

 hemispheric or coluninai-. Stamens 5-10, oi- very numerous, inserted on 

 the disc ; filaments slender. Ovary stalked, lenticular, oblique, 1-celled ; 

 style sublateral, stigma sim{)le ; ovule 1, pendulous from a basal funicle. 

 Fruit dry, subsessile, or on a long pedicel rising from the stellately- 

 spreading persistent petals, globose, coriaceous. Seed subglobose or 

 oblong ; testa papery; cotyledons thick, plano-convex ; radicle ascending. 

 A Malayan genus of about 9 species. 



Sect. I. EumelanorrJioea : petals accrescent in the fruit. 

 Calyx spathaceous and falling oil like a calyptra. 

 Stamens 5. 



Bracts if any small and deciduous. 

 Leaves broadly elli{)tic, the lower 

 sui'face -with many very minute 

 hairs and numerous dots 

 Leaves obovate-elliiitic, glabrous on 

 both surfaces, nob- dotted 

 Bracts large and persistent, embracing 

 «he flower buds 

 Stamens 10 

 Calyx withering and remaining as a loose 

 3-toothed collar round tlie pedicel ..» 



Sect II. 7l;>/erae : petals not accrescent. 

 Petitls oblanceohite, leaves 6 to 15 in. long 

 Petals elliptic, leaves i or 5 in. long 



