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Leaves broad and ronnded at the apex, sometimes with 

 a short broad blunt point, 2-25 to 4 in. long and 1-25 

 to 2-25 in. broad; fruit -5 in. in diam. ... ... 1. O. coriacea. 



Leaves acuminate at the apex, elliptic-lanceolate"( often 

 narrowly so) 225 to 3- 25 in. long and "5 to 11 in. broad; 

 fruit the size of a pea ... ... ... 2. O. suhlanceolafa. 



Leaves shortly and abruptly acuminate, rarely sub- 

 acute, 3 5 to 5 in. long and 1'35 to 2'5 in. broad; fruit 

 globose, '5 to "6 in. in diam. ... ... ... 3. 0. macrophylla. 



° 1. Gtnochthodes cobiagea, Blame BIjdr. 993. Young branches 

 thinner than a goose-quill, nearly black. Leaves thinly coriaceous, ellip- 

 tic elliptic-rotund or elliptic-obovate, obtuse or shortly bluntly and 

 abruptly apiculate, much narrowed to the base; main-nerves 4 to 6 

 pairs, spreading, only slightly curved, faint; both surfaces alike, nearly 

 black, slightly shining; length 225 to 4 iu.; breadth 1-2 to 2-25 in. ; 

 petioles '4 or '5 in.; Flowers "3 in. long, few, on short axillary peduncles* 

 Corolla-tuhe very narrow, about as long as the limb ; lobes of limb linear- 

 oblong, densely hirsute on the upper surface, spreading. Fruit globose, 

 pulpy, 4-celled; pyrenes 1-seeded. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 11. 813; DC. 

 Prod. IV. 467. 



■ Singapore: (Bot. Garden Jungle), Ridley 6410, 10393, 2871.— 

 DiSTRiB. Java, Borneo, Timor. 



2. Gynochthodes sdblanceolata, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat, Suppl. 548. 

 Branches thinner than a goose-quill, dark-coloured when dry. Leaves 

 thinly coriaceous, elliptic-lanceolate, often narrowly so, acuminate, the 

 base much narrowed ; both surfaces dull and blackish when dry ; main- 

 nerves iudistinct, 5 or 6 pairs, ascending, little curved; length 2*25 to 

 325 in.; breadth '5 to 1"1 in.; petioles "2 to "4 in.; stipules triangular. 

 Flowers few, about '35 in. long, sub-sessile on very short axillary bran- 

 ches. Calyx-limb truncate but with 5 distant minute teeth. Corolla- 

 tube short, rather wide, hairy inside ; limb with 5 broadly lanceolate 

 sub-acute lobes longer than the tube. Anthers slightly exserted. Stigma 

 with 2 elongate plano-convex lobes. Fruit pisiform, smooth, on a sborfc 

 pedicel. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. Ill, 160. G. coriacea, var. — , Miq. in. 

 Aun. Mus. Lugd. Bat. IV. 244. Paederia tetrandra, Wall. Cat. 6249. 

 ? Psychotria, Wall. Cat. 8385. Bubiacea ? Wall. Cat. 8297. 



Singapore: Q. Thomson; Ridley; King's Collector Z\ 2. Malacca: 

 Maingay (K.D.) 919; Griffith. Penang: Wallich. — Distrib. Borneo, 

 Sumatra. 



3, Gynochthodes macrophylla, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 

 1872, Pt. II, 314. Young branches angled, nearly as thick as a goose- 

 quill, the bark pale. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic or elliptic-oblong, shortly 



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