75 



lanceolate, attenuate to the apex, slightly keeled outside, 1 to 125 in. 

 long ; inner about '3 in. long, ovate, aciTte. Stamens niimerous, apices 

 of anthers very convex, puberulous. Ovaries oblong, pubescent ; style 

 cylindrio, glabrous : stigma bifid. Fruit unknown. 

 Malacca ; Griffith. 



Known only by Griffith's imperfect specimens. 



8. GONIOTHALAMUS CuRTisii, King, n. sp. A shrub or small slender 

 tree : young branches densely rusty -tomentose, the larger pale and 

 glabrous. Leaves stoutly membranons, narrowly oblong to obovate- 

 oblong, more or less abruptly and shortly acuminate, slightly narrowed 

 to the rounded base ; upper surface shining, glabrous except the pu- 

 berulous midrib ; the lower sparsely puberulous, the midrib and nerves 

 dark rusty-tomentose ; the latter 28 to 34 pairs, sub-horizontal, inter- 

 arching near the margin, very prominent, as is the midrib, on the lower 

 and depressed on the upper surface : length 9 to 15 in., breadth 3 to 

 5*5 in. ; petiole "35, channelled, pubescent. Flowers solitary, from the 

 stem ; pedicels stout, decurved, with two deciduous bracteoles at the 

 base, '6 in. long. Sepals large, green, rigidly membranous, conjoined into 

 a cup -with 3 broadly-ovate, sub-acute teeth, boldly nerved and reticu- 

 late, minutely rufous-pvibescent, persistent; length from '75 to 1 inch. 

 Petals coriaceous, velvety-tomentose, yellowish, tinged with red : the 

 outer broadly lanceolate, acuminate, slightly narrowed and thickened 

 at the base, from 1"25 to 1"75 in. long ; the inner rather more than 

 one-third as long, ovate, acuminate. Anthers numerous, compressed, 

 linear, with acute granular conical apices. Ovaries numerous, narroT\'ly 

 elongate, densely pubescent, 1-ovuled ; style straight ; stigma oblique, 

 ruinutely lobed. Bipe carpels obliquely ovoid with long pointed, slightly 

 hooked apices, rufous-pubescent, -75 in. long: stalks only -l in. long, 



stout. 



Selangor; Curtis, Nos. 310 and 2316. Perak ; King's Collector, 

 No. 10548 : Scortechini, No. (360. 



A very distinct species. 



9. GoNiOTHALAMUS Griffithii, Hook. fil. and Th. Fl. Ind., 110 A 

 large shrub or small tree; all parts glabrous except the ovaries and 

 carpels : young branches dai-k-coloured. Leaves coriaceous, oblong, sub- 

 acute, or shortly and obtusely acuminate, the base cuneate ; both surfaces 

 shining and reticulate ; main nerves 12 to 20 pairs, faint, spreading, 

 inter-arching within the edge : length 7 to 12 in , bi-eadth 18 to 35 in. ; 

 petiole '25 to 5 in., thick. Flowers solitary, axillaiy or extra-axillary ; 

 pedicel "5 to 1 in. long with a few scale-like bracteoles near the base. 

 Sepals thinly coriaceous, orbicular-ovate, blunt, connate below, nerved 

 and reticulate, persistent, "5 to "75 in. long. Petals thickly coriaceous ; 

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