V. 



Enumeration of some of the recently collected plants 



of 



Aheen, Jagoe, Lohee, Meeeill, Waebueg and othees. 



(Coutinued from fasc. I, p. 4.) 



Gonystylaceae 



by 

 J. Peekins. 



The discovery of the genus Oonystylus in the Philippine 

 Islands by Merrill affords the opportunity of giving the history and 

 the most striking characters of this, in many respects, singular genus. 



Gony stylus was established by Teysmann and Binnendijk in 1862, 

 Botan. Zeitung p. 265 (Ueber Kaju Garu, ein wohlriechendes Holz 

 in Indien. Mitgeteiit von Prof. Miquel) and was founded upon a 

 plant from Java, which they named Gonystylus Miquelianiis. At 

 the end of the diagnosis, on page 266, is added the remark, that 

 two species of Aqidlaria (A. macrophylla and A. bancana), described 

 by MiQUEL in his Fl. Ind. bat. Suppl. I, belong to this genus. 



Aqidlaria is a well known Malayan genus of Thymelaeaceae, 

 several species of which produce an odoriferous wood Lignum Aloes, 

 that is of some importance in the Malayan cult. The new genus, 

 according to Teysmann and Binnendi.jk, is also distinguished for its 

 fragrant wood, and it is perhaps for this reason that the authors 

 believed that the plant discovered by them in Java was related to 

 Aqidlaria; from the following it will be seen that the view of the 

 authors Avas incorrect, Gonystylus being in many respects entirely 

 different, not only from Aquilaria, but from the whole family of the 

 Thymelaeaceae. A short time afterwards, Miquel published a more 

 complete description accompanied by a plate, in Ann. Mus. bot. Lugd. 

 Batav. I, p. 132 (1863). He too, without hesitation, referred the 



