204 M^t'fritds fov a Fhra nf the Malayan PeniuKnfd. 



Perak, at elevations of 500 to 1000 feet,. King's Collector. 



3, GoRDONiA Maingayi, Dyer in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 291. A 

 tree 30 to 40 feet high ; young branches slender, with glabrous pale 

 roughish bark, pubescent towards the apices. Lerives coriaceous, broad- 

 ly oblanceolate, shortly and bluntly acuminate, obscurely serrulate in 

 the upper two-thirds, the lower third gi-udually attenuate, entire ; both 

 surfaces glabrous, the upper greenish, the lower brownish when dry, the 

 midrib bold and sparsely pubescent beneath ; lateral nerves 6 pairs, indis- 

 tinct ; length 2"5 to 3 in., breadth 1 to 1'4 in., petiole '25 in. Floivers 

 sub-sessile, '8 to I in. in diam., buds sub-globular ; bracts, sepals and 

 petals forming a cone, all adpressed-sericeous externally except the 

 glabrous edges ; pedicels about "15 in. long. S-epals and petals orbicu- 

 lar, blunt or retuse. Stamens numerous ; anthers elongate-ovoid ; 

 filaments much longer, slender. Ovary ovoid-conic, vertically ridged, 

 adpressed-sericeous, 4- or 5-celled. Style single, angled. Stig-mas 4 or 

 6^ acute, connivent. Capsules 4- to 5-angled ; woody, ] to 1"25 long, "5 

 to *6 in diam., 4- to 5-celled, backs of valves flat. Seeils '9 in, long of 

 ■Wrhich three-fourths are wing. 



Malacca ; Maingay, No. 192. Perak, Scortechini, Wray ; at about 

 1000 feet. 



4i GoRDONiA ScORTECHlNfl, King, n. sp. A tree ; young branches 

 slender, dark brown, glabrous, the apices and leaf-buds minutely pubevu- 

 lous. Leaves coriaceous, narrowly elliptic, blunt, or sub-emarginate, 

 slightly narrowed to the sub-acute or rounded base ; both surfaces gla- 

 brous, the lower dull, pale ; the upper shining, gieen, when dry ; midrib 

 bold ; nerves about 8 pairsj faint on the upper,, invisible on the lower 

 surface ; length 2 to 3 in., bieadth "8 to 1*4 in., petiole '25 in. Flowers 

 *6 in. in diam., solitary, axillary, only towards the apices of the branches, 

 on very short curved pubescent peduncles, liuds ovoid. Sepals orUi- 

 calar,; fleshy, unequal^ pubescent externally. Petals twice as lHr<.'e as 

 the sepals, membranous, puberulous externally. Stamens few, (only 

 about 30) ; anthers broadly ovate, about a fourth as long as the flattened 

 filaments. Owary narrowly ovoid, pubescent, 3-celled. Styles 'S, thick, 

 shorter than the ovary, pubescent ; stigmas on the inner surface only, 

 slightly spreading. Fruit unknown. 



Perak ; Scortechini, No. 3626. 



This has a superficial resemblance to G. Mainqayii, to which the 

 late Father Scortechini referred it. But it has smaller flowers with 

 fewer stamens, and very different ovary and styles ; the leaves moreover 

 are. thicker than those of GL Maingayiiy and. are not oblanceolate. 



5. GOBDONIA iMBttlCATA, King, u. sp. A. tree ? Young branches 

 rather stout, glabrous, daik purplish-bi'own when dry. Leaaex coriuf 



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