202 XIX. TERNSTRCEMIACE^. [ScMma. 



var. rigida Ridl. Small tree 20 to 25 ft. tall. Leaves very 

 stiffly coriaceous, 2-5 to 4-5 in. long, 175 to 2-5 in. wide, lanceolate 

 acuminate, ovate or elliptic, base slightly narrowed, margins 

 usually distinctly crenulate ; petioles stout 15 in. long. Peduncles 

 2 in. long, stout, glabrous. Flowers and fruit rather larger, 

 glabrous except the edges of the sepals, which are much smaller 

 than in the typical form. Pahang, Gunong Tahan (Ridley), 5000 

 to 5500 ft. altitude. A mountain form with very much stiffer, 

 larger leaves. 



7. GORDONIA, ElHs. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves coriaceous, entire or slightly crenate. 

 Flowers rather large, white, often sub-sessile, solitary in leaf- 

 axils, bibracteolate. Sepals usuaUy 5 unequal, graduating from 

 bracts to sepals, coriaceous, silky, rounded. Petals united at the 

 base or free, imbricate. Stamens indefinite, 5-adelphous or mona- 

 delphous, adnate to petals. Ovary 3- to 5-celled. ; style i (rarely 3). 

 Stigma round sometimes lobed. Ovules pendulous 4 to 8 in each 

 cell. Capsule oblong-conic woody, locuhcidal, column persistent. 

 Seeds flat, winged. Species about 15, tropical Asia and N. America. 



Trees or shrubs, quite glabrous except the flowers. 



Tall tree; petiole winged to base . . . (i) G. singaporeana 



Tree ; petiole not winged to base ; leaves rather 



thin (2) G. multinervis 



Tree 100 ft. tall; petiole not winged; leaves 



stiff . . . . . . . (3) G. concentricicatrix 



Shrub ; petiole not winged ;. bracts numerous . (4) G. imbricata 

 Trees ; branchlets and buds pubescent. 

 Style I. 



Stamens very numerous 

 Leaves glabrous 2 to 5 in. long 

 Leaves glabrous 11 in. long 

 Midrib hairy, back of leaf all hairy 

 Styles 3 ; stamens 30 . 



(5) G. penangensis 



(6) G. Taipingensis 



(7) G. Maingayi 



(8) G. hirtella 



(9) G. Scortechinii 



(i) G. singaporeana Wall. Cat. 1457. G. grandis King, I.e. 

 203. 



A strict tree 60 to 100 ft. tall, quite glabrous except the flowers. 

 Leaves coriaceous, serrate-crenate above, narrowed and decurrent 

 to the base of the petiole; nerves 10 to 12 pairs inarching -15 in. 

 from margin, 4-5 to 6 in. long, 1-5 to 3 in. wide. Flowers white, 

 2 in. across, solitary axillary on pedicels "3 in. long, puberulous. 

 Bracts few, small, fugacious. Sepals round coriaceous, silky out- 

 side. Petals much larger. Stamens very numerous; anthers 

 oblong; style i. Ovary ovoid. Capsule woody, i to 1*5 in. 

 long, hairy, bluntly 4-angled. Seeds -6 in. long, wing -5 in. long. 

 Hab. Forests especially in the south. Common. Singapore, com- 

 mon. Johor, Malacca, Perak, Thaiping'; Penang, rifle range (Curtis). 



Wallich's specimens were obtained in the small islands round Singapore. 



