200 cxxx. THYMELJEACE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Aquilaria. 



except the silky shoots, leaves petioled linear-oblong or lanceolate or oblan- 

 ceolate caudate-acuminate, fruit l|-2 in. oblanceolate acuminate thinly 

 coriaceous glabrous. DC. Prodr. ii. 59 ; Meissn. in DC. I. c. xiv. 2. 601 ; 

 Wall. Cat. 7250; Roxb. $ Caleb, in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxi. 199, t. 21; 

 Boyle HI. 173, t. 36, f. 1 ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 335; Miguel Fl. Ind. Bat. i. 

 pt.'l, 882 ; ? Griff. Notul. iv. 358. Gyrinopsis species Assamica, Benth. in 

 Gen. PL iii. 200. 



EASTEEN HIMALAYA; Bhotan, Griffith. ASSAM, Hamilton. KHASIA MTS., 

 SILHET and TIPPEBA HILLS, Roxburgh, &c. MAETABAN HILLS, Kurz. 



A large evergreen tree. Leaves 2-3J in., thinly coriaceous, shining, sometimes 

 subsilky on the nerves beneath, nerves very many and faint ; petiole T ' g in. Umbels 

 very many-fld., sessile or shortly peduncled, silky ; flowers white, about equalling 

 their pedicels or shorter. Perianth persistent in fruit, \^ in. broad and long, silky 

 without, densely villous within ; lobes rounded, ovate, equalling the turgid turbinate 

 tube ; scales villous. I have seen no Martaban specimens, which are described by 

 Kurz as having obovate-cuneate densely tomentose capsules. The figure in the 

 Linnsean Transactions represents a short broad thick capsule, quite like that of A. ma- 

 laccensis, and very different from those of the Bhotari and Khasian A. Agallocha. 

 Griffith does not describe the fruit, and I am hence in doubt whether the plant of the 

 Notulse is this or malaccensis ; he gives Mergui as a habitat, whence I have seen no- 

 specimens. Eagle or Aloe-wood ; Aggur, ~Beng. 



2. A. malaccensis, LamJc. Diet. i. 49, and 111. t. 356 ; glabrous 

 except the silky shoots, leaves oblong-lanceolate' shortly obtusely caudate- 

 acuminate, fruit 1 in. broadly obovoid very thick and woody when ripe. 

 DC. Prodr. ii. 59; Meissn. in DC. I. c. xiv. 2. 601, excl. citat. of Benth. ; 

 Diet. Sc. Nat. t. 248 ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 236. A. ovata, Cav. Diss. vii. 377, 

 t. 224. Rumph. Amb. ii. 34, 1. 10. 



MALACCA, Griffith, Maingay. TENASSEEIM ? Kurz. DISTEIB. Malay Islands. 



Very similar to A. Agallocha in foliage, which is however rather smaller, and it 

 differs in the much smaller flowers and short broad woody capsule, the valves of which 

 are inch thick at the suture. The Honble. C. Smith sends from Perak, under the 

 name of Kaya tang Karus, the foliage of what may be another species, the leaves 

 being much broader, with much longer acuminate tail-like points ; it produces Garu, 

 (Taras Gharu, Griffith), the name given to the wood of A. malaccensis. 



ANOMALOUS GENUS (referable to TILIACE^E.) 

 QONYSTYLUS, Teijsm. # Binnend. 



Lofty trees, inner bark not tenacious. Leaves alternate, rigid, many- 

 nerved, glabrous. Floivers small, bisexual, in axillary and terminal 

 peduncled spicate umbels. Perianth short, cup-shaped, 5-cleft, thickly 

 coriaceous, hirsute within, persistent, with a ring of setaceous incurved 

 processes at the base. Stamens very numerous, at the base of the perianth, 

 filaments very short; anthers basi fixed, elongate, 2-celled, dehiscing length- 

 wise. Ovary 4-6-celled ; style filiform, deflexed, stigma clavate 2-lobed; 

 ovules solitary in each cell, pendulous, anatropous. Fruit subglobose, 

 2-5-angled or furrowed, pericarp very thick. Seeds pendulous, oblong, 

 curved, exalbuminous. Species 3 or 4, Malayan. 



G. IVKaing-ayi, HooTc. f. ; leaves 4-5 in. shortly petioled elliptic- 

 oblong acuminate glabrous base rounded, perianth \ in. diam., fruit ellipsoid 

 1-1 in. long .obtuse, unequally 2-4-valved, 6-celled with 3 or more cells 

 abortive. 



