Gouania.] xl. RHAMNEiE, 469 



tube obconic 5-lobed. Petals 5 insert below disc cucullate. Stamens 



5 wrapped in petals. Ovary immersed in disc ; style 3-fid. Fruit 

 inferior crowned by calyx, 3-winged with round wings, 3-celled. 

 Seeds one in a cell plano-convex obovate, small shining black. 

 Species 30, chiefly S. American, some in tropical Asia, Africa and 

 Polynesia. 



Branchlets and flowers tomentose; racemes rather 

 crowded . . . . . . . . (i) G. javanica 



Branches and flowers sub-glabrous; racemes elon- 

 gate ; flowers distant . . . . . . (2) G. leptostachya 



(i) G. javanica Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i (i.) 649; King, I.e. 383. 



Branchlets and racemes red-tomentose. Leaves ovate acute 

 crenate, base rounded above sparsely hairy or glabrous, hairy on 

 nerves, beneath hairy; nerves red-tomentose 6 to 7 pairs, i"5 in. 

 to 2*5 in. long, i"i to 2 in. wide; petioles -5 in. long. Spikes 3 

 to 6 in. long with cirrhi at base. Flowers 2 to 4 in. in a cyme 

 sub-sessile. Calyx woolly. Disc-lobes subulate. Fruit 3 in. long, 

 •5 in. across. Hab. Open country and thickets. Malacca (Griffith). 

 Pahang, near Raub (Machado). Selangor, Kwala Lumpur. Perak, 

 road to Jor from Tapah; Sungei Rayah (Kunstler). Kelantan, 

 Chaning. Perils, Kanga. Disirib. Malay islands. Native name : 

 Akar Sibueh. 



(2) G. leptostachya DC. Prodr. ii. 40 ; King, I.e. 383. 



Branchlets nearly or quite glabrous. Leaves ovate broad 

 serrate or crenate above, glabrous except nerves sometimes puberu- 

 lous, 175 to 3 in. long, i to 1-5 in. wide. Racemes slender pubescent, 



6 to 12 in. long. Flowers in distant cymes of 3 to 4, sub-glabrous. 

 Disc with 5 oblong truncate emarginate lobes. Fruit broader 

 than long, rather broader than in G. javanica. Hab. Edges of 

 tracks through forest. Pahang, Raub track (Machado). Perak, 

 road to Jor. Perils, Kanga. Distrib. India. 



Very near G. javanica, and may be only a variety, but more glabrous with 

 longer spikes. 



Order XLI. AMPELIDE^. 



Shrubs usually chmbing by tendrils, bushes or rarely small 

 trees {Leea). Stems angled or flattened or round. Leaves alternate 

 simple, digitate or compound. Flowers smah in umbellate cymes, 

 or spicate, regular, bisexual. Calyx entire or 4- or 5-lobed. Petals 

 4 to 5, free or cohering valvate, often falhng in a cap,. Stamens 4 

 to 5 opposite, the petals insert at base of disc or between the lobes ; 

 filaments short ; anthers 2-celled introrse. Disc free or adnate to 

 petals or stamens. Ovary 2- to 6-celled ; style short or ; ovules 



