160 LXXV. EUBIACE2B. (J. D. Hooker.) [Ccelosperm^m, 



MALACCA, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 3087), Maingay (933). DJSTRIB. Malay Archi- 

 pelago. 



A climber; branches cylindric, smooth. Leaves 4-5 by l|-2 in., opaque or 

 shining above, base acute or rounded, not narrowed into the petiole ; nerves faint, 

 spreading and arched ; petiole |-f in. ; stipules triangular. Cymes 2-5 in., umbel- 

 lately branched, puberulous ; pedicels umbellate, in. ; bracteoles minute. Corolla 

 white, tube \ in., hairy within ; segments narrow, yellow, pubescent on the inner 

 face. I have seen only flowers and fruit of an authentic specimen of C. scandens, and 

 have no reason to doubt its identity with this, it being a widely diffused Malayan 

 plant likely to occur at Malacca. The structure of the ovary is difficult to observe 

 in dried specimens. I find 4 1-ovuled cells in one specimen, 2 1-ovuled cells in 

 most, 2 2-ovuled cells in an authentic specimen, and Maingay says ovary by abortion 

 2-3-celled. In the Australian C. paniculatum and reticulatum I find the ovary 

 4-celled above, 2-celled below, with 2 ovules in each cell. 



74. GYNOCHTHODES. Blume. 



Twining glabrous shrubs; branches terete. Leaves opposite, coriaceous; 

 stipules broad, acute. Flowers small, unisexual, in axillary cymose fascicles or 

 peduncled heads ; pedicels short ; bracts deciduous. Calyx-tube, small, tur- 

 binate; liinb annular truncate or 5-toothed, persistent. Corolla coriaceous, 

 tube short, throat woolly ; lobes 4-5, oblong-lanceolate, valvate in bud with 

 inflexed tips. Stamens 4-5, in the corolla-tube, filaments stout ; anthers linear- 

 oblong, exserted. Ovary 4-celled ; style of $ entire, of <j> stout, branches 

 oblong ; ovules 1 in each cell, attached to the inner angle by a broad base. 

 Drupe globose, with 2-4 pyrenes. Seeds compressed, ascending, testa mein- 

 branous ; embryo basal, small, radicle inferior. DISTRIB. Species 3 or 4, all 

 Malayan. 



1. G-. sublanceolata, Miq. Fl. Ind. Sat. Suppl. 548; branches slender 

 twining, leaves elliptic-lanceolate acuminate, nerves very indistinct, fruit the 

 size of a pea. G. coriacea var., Miq. in Ann. Mus. Luad. Hat. iv. 244. 

 Peederia tetrandra, Wall. Cat. G249. ? Psychotria, Wall. Cat. 8385. ? Ru- 

 biaceje, Wall. Cat. 8297. 



MALACCA, SINGAPORE, and PENANG, Wallich, Maingay. (G. coriacea, Kew Distrib.) 

 DISTRIB. Bangka. 



Branches with long almost filiform tips, their nodes sometimes leafless, but with 

 triangular stipules. Leaves black when dry, 3-4 by 1 in., not shining, base nar- 

 rowed into the petiole; nerves without axillary glands; petiole -^ in. Flowers 

 fascicled or in much reduced cymes. Corolla-tube very short, woolly within. Style 

 glabrous. Fruit with 3-4 pyrenes. Wallich's 8385 is possibly a young state of this, 

 the branches root like ivy, and the distichous leaves are sessile, linear-oblong, acute, 

 with cordate bases ; it has neither flower nor fruit. Miquel has (in the Annales) 

 reduced this to a variety of G. coriacea, which appears to me to be an entirely different 

 plant. 



2. G-. macrophylla, Kurz in Journ, As. Soc. 1872, ii. 314 ; For. Fl. ii. 

 33 ; leaves elliptic-oblong subacute or obtuse, fruit the size of a cherry. 



SOUTH ANDAMAN ISLAND and MALACCA, Kurz, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 934). 



Branches stout. Leaves brown when dry, 4-6 by 2 in., tip rounded, base sub- 

 acute, very coriaceous^ opaque, with nerves slender in Kurz's specimen, shining above, 

 with very distinct nerves in Maingay's. Flowers very numerous, larger than is G. 

 sublanceolata; calyx-tube more distinct; corolla-lobes longer. Fruit sea-green. I 

 have seen no Andaman specimen, and only one of Kurz's, sent by Dr. King, and 

 marked as from Nankoury, Malacca ; it has leaves of the colour and texture of G. 

 sublanceolata, and wants the hollow fringed glanis in the nerve axils described by 

 Kurz ; these are presant in none of the axils of Maingay's specimen, the leaves of 

 which are brown and shining above. 



