Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula, 393 



often sliowy. Sepals 4, free, imbricate in 2 series, or 2 outer subvalvato. 

 Petals 4, seBsile, imbricate. Stamens indefinite, inserted on the torus at 

 the base of the long gynophore. Ovary stalked, J-to 4-cellod ; stigma 

 sessile ; ovules many, on 2 to 6 parieJal placentas. Fruit fleshy, rarely 

 bursting by valves. Seeds many, imbedded in pulp, testa crustcaeou^ 

 or noriticeons ; cotyledons convolute.^ — Distrib. Species 125, natives of 

 all warm clin)ates, except N. America. 



Si/nnpsi's of Species. 

 Fruit fjlobose or sub-fflobose : — 



Flowers solitaiy, axillary ... ...1. G. Larutensis. 



,, umbellate ... ... ... 2. C. sefiaria. 



„ racemose ... ... ... 3. C. Scortechinii. 



Floweis snpra-axillary, in rows of 2 or 3 : — 



Leaves 3 to 4 in. long... ... 4. C. micracantha. 



„ 5 to 7 in. long ... ... 5. C. puhijlora. 



Fruit much elongate, cucumber-shaped : — 



Fruit 4 to 7 in. long ... ... 6. G. Finlaysoniana. 



,, 3 in. long ... ... ... 7. 0. cucv,rhitina. 



1. C. Larutensis, King, n. sp. Scandent, the young branches and 

 petioles densely covered with minute, rusty, sub-deciduous tomentum. 

 Stem sub-stiiate ; prickles in pairs, short, hooked. Leaves glabrous, 

 coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse or retuse, the midrib prominent, 

 the 5 or 6 paii-s of nerves obscure; length 1 to 1"25 in., breadth 4 in., 

 })eti()le "2 in. Floicer-pedicels solitnry, glabrous, more than half as long 

 as the leaves. Flowers •75 in. in diara., white to pink. Sepals fleshy, 

 glabrous, the outer pair ovate ; the inner rotund, concave. Petals oblong, 

 glabrous. Stamens about 12. Gynophore slender, nearly 2 in. long- 

 Fruit globose, with an apical beak. 



Perak, at Laroot, on trees. King's Collector, No. 5103. 

 A woody climber, 30 to 40 feet long. The petals change from 

 "white to pink. Ripe fruit is unknown. This must be near G. erythro- 

 dasys, Miq. 



2. C. SEPIAIUA, Linn. A scrambling shrub. Branches divaricate, 

 with rather distant pairs of short recurved thorns, sub-striate, the younger 

 puberulous. Leaves membranous, shortly petiolate, ovate to oblong, pubes- 

 cent or gbibrescent, nerves 4 or 5 pairs. Flowers '35 to '5 in. in diam., in 

 terminal umbels, the pedicels slender, "5 in long ; buds globose. Sepals • 

 oblong. Petals narrow, white. Ovary apiculate, gvnopliore "25 to "5 in. 

 long. Fruit pisiform, black. Hook. til. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 177 ; Miq. Fl. 

 Ii.d. Biit. i. pt. 2, 101 ; DC. Prod. i. 247 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 568 ; W. & A. 

 Prod. 26; Camb, in Jacq. Voy. Bot. t. 22; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Flora, 

 10 ; Kurz For. Fl. Bnrm. i. G6. 



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