Goniothalamus.] iv. ANON ACE JE. (Hook. f. & Thorns.) 75 



KHASIA HILLS ; alt. 2-3000 ft., Simons, &c. 



A small tree ; young branches, midrib and nerves beneath, peduncles and petals 

 brown-tomentose. Leaves 9-15 by 3-5 in., nerves strong; petiole 4 i n - Flowers 

 1-1 in. long; peduncles ?-| in. Sepals \ in., ovate. Outer petah 1^-2 in. long, 

 oblong lanceolate ; cone of inner 4 i n - l n g> triquetrous, acute. Connective acute, 

 glabrous. Carpels 4 in., on a much elongated torus, mucronate. 



11. G-. g-ig-anteus, H.f. & T. Fl. Ind. 109 ; leaves oblong long and 

 obtusely acuminate glabrous above puberulous beneath with a sharply 

 keeled midrib, peduncles from the old axils, sepals broadly ovate obtuse, 

 outer petals flat, style filiform, tip clavate. Uvaria gigantea, Wall. Cat. 

 6469 A B (in part}. 



PENANG and SINGAPORE, Wallich, &c. DISTRIB. Philippines. 



Branches glabrous, white; buds brown-tomentose. Leaves 6-10 by lf--3 in., coria- 

 ceous, base acute, dark-green and shining above, pale beneath ; petiole 4 i n - Flowers 

 very large ; peduncles 1-14 m -) subclavate, spreading or pendulous, pnberulous. Sepals 

 | in., ovate, subobtuse, pubescent. Outer petals 3-4 by ]^-3in., oblong, shortly clawed, 

 pubescent on both surfaces ; inner densely golden-tomentose, cone in. 



12. G-. malayanus, H.f. & T. Fl. Ind. 107 ; leaves narrow-oblong 

 taper-pointed glabrous, peduncles axillary solitary, sepals connate to the 

 middle acute, outer petals flat, style slender, carpels narrow-oblong glabrate 

 stalked. Uvaria sp. Griff. Notul. iv. 710. 



MALACCA, Griffith. 



Bark white; shoots brown-tomentose. Leaves 6-9 by 1J-3 in., base acute or 

 rounded, shining and dark-green above, paler and lurid beneath, veins subhorizontal, 

 faint; petiole |-^ in. Flowers greenish ; peduncles |-| in., deflexed, brown-silky. 

 Sepals J in , broad ovate, pubescent. Outer petals 1 in., ovate-lanceolate, acute, 

 clawed, young silky on both surfaces with a triangular glabrous basal area, back 

 keeled ; inner united into a short acute tomentose cone. Ovaries silky ; ovules 35. 

 Carpels 1 in., corky (golden-pubescent when immature) ; stalk J in. Seeds 1-3, testa 

 hispidulous ; funicle broad, flat. G. Stingelandtii, Schefier, of Java, is perhaps the 

 same. 



13. G-. fulvus, H.f. & T. ; leaves narrowly obovate-oblong obtuse or 

 acute glabrous, peduncles axillary solitary, sepals free subacute, outer petals 

 flat, style cvlindric glabrous. 



MALACCA, oknfiith. 



Branches slender, black.. Leaves 8-9 by 2|-3J in., thin, glabrous, pellucid-dotted, 

 base acute, nerves oblique ; petiole \ in., appressed-pubescent. Flowers 1 in. long ; 

 peduncles | in., puberulous. Sepals i in., broad ovate. Outer petals 1^-2 in., lan- 

 ceolate from a broad base, taper-pointed, brown-silky, sjightly k-eeled'on the back; cone 

 ^ in., short, triquetrous, obtuse. Flower of 0. malayanus ; leaves more like 'G.Simonsii. 



14. G-. cardlopetalus, H.f. & T. Fl. Ind. 107 ; leaves narrow-oblong 

 or obovate-oblong abruptly acuminate glabrous margin waved, peduncles 

 supra-axillary solitary or superposed, sepals orbicular free, outer petals 

 cucullate clawed, style slender 2-fid. Beddome Ic. PL Ind. Or. t. 62. Uvaria 

 obovata, Heyne ex Wall. Cat. 6471. Polyalthia cardiopetala, Dah. in Hook. 

 Kew Journ. Bot. ii. 39. Atrategia Thomsoni, Bedd. 



Mountains of CANARA, ffeyne, &c. 



A small tree ; branches slender, leafy. Leaves 6-9 by 2-3 in., thin, coriaceous, base 

 acute, petiole in. Flowers 1 in. diam. ; peduncles 3 in. Sepals small, pubescent. 

 Outer petals ^-| in., oblong, densely brown-tomentose ; inner snorter, tomentose. ^ 



** Leaves lanceolate. 



15. G. reticulatus, Thwaites Enum. 7, 398 ; leaves lanceolate or very 

 narrowly oblong acuminate glandular-dotted glabrous above sparsely strigose 



