202 lilatenals for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



•7.5 to r25 in., flat, move or less winged. Flowers 125 to 1'5 in. in difirn., 

 axillary, crowded at tlie apices of the branches and forming lax terminal 

 pseudo-corymbs; peduncU's 1 to ]-5iii. long, slender, thickened towards 

 the apex, glabrous or pnl)escent, braoteoles minnte. Sepals rounded or- 

 sub-acute, glabrous or glalirescent, the margins minutely ciliate, about "15 

 in. long. Petals thin, veined, obovate, clawed, their bases pubescent and 

 their edges ciliate in the lower half, white or pale pink. Staviens 6- 

 delplious ; anthers sub-rotund, small, the filaments 4 or 5 times as long. 

 Ovary depressed-hemispheric, pubescent, 5-celled. Style thick; stigma 

 di.scoid, with 5 blunt lobes, Jt'riiit 'lb in. in diam., adpressed-pnbescent 

 when young, glabrous or sub-glabrous when old ; upper part of columella 

 expanded, 5-angled. Korth. Verh. Nat. Gesch. Bot. 143, t. 29, figs. 21 

 to 27; Choisy. Mem. Ternst. 54; Miq. Fl. Tnd. Bat. I, Ft. i, p. 492; 

 Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. IV, 112; Kurz For. Fl. Burm. i, 107. S. crenata, 

 Korth. 1. c. t. 29, figs. 1 to 20; Miq. Flora 1. c. 491 ; Ann. 1. c. 113 ; Kurz 

 1. c. 107 ; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i, 289 ; Pierre Fl. Forest. Coch. -Chine, t. 

 321. Gordom'a floribunda, Wall. Cat. 1456; Griff. Not, iv, 563. 

 6. oblafa, Roxb. Fl. Tnd. ii, 672. 



In all the provinces except the Andamans and Nicobars. Distrib. 

 The Malayan A7'chipelago, Burmah, at elevations of 1000 to .3000 feet. 



This rather widely distributed species varies remarkably little. In 

 spite, however, of this, Korthal, carved out of it his species S. crenata, 

 Avhich he states to have the same calyx, corolla, stamens, ovaiy, style and 

 stio-ma as Reinwardt's 8. NoronJiae, but to differ in the leaves and capsule. 

 His own descriptions and figures of leaves and capsule, however, of both 

 species ai-e practically identical. The only other really distinct species 

 of the genus appear to me to be S. Khasiana, Dyer, S. hancana, Miq. 

 and perhaps S. Wallichii, Choisy. 



9. GORDONIA, Ellis. 



Trees with evergreen entire or crenate leaves. Florvers usually 

 laro'e, often subsessile, solitary in the axils of the leaves or collected at 

 the ends of the branches, 2-4-bracteolate. Sepals usually 5, unequal, 

 graduating; from the bracts to tlie petals. Petals tree or united at the 

 base imbricate, the inner larger. Stamens indefinite, 5-delphous or 1- 

 delplious, adnate to the petals ; aiithers versatile. Ovary 3-5-celled; 

 style single ; the stigma flat, rotund, rather thick, sometimes lobed ; 

 ovules pendulous, 4 to 8 in each cell. Gaysxde oblong, woody, loculicidal, 

 with a persistent column. Seeds flat or compressed, the apex often 

 wino-ed, albumen none ; embryo usually straight, the cotyledons ovate, 

 fiat or plicate. Distrib. Ti'opical, Asia N. America. Species about 

 15. 



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