Glii cxLirt. GNETACE^E. (J. T). Hooker.) [Gnetum. 



Ind. iii. 518 ; Eurz in Flora Iv. (1872) 350 ; For. Fl. ii. 497; Blume in Ann. 

 Sc. Nat. Ser. 2, ii. 105 ; Humph, iv. 3, 1. 176 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 1067 ; 

 Brongn. in Duperr. Voy. Bot. 6, t. 1 ; Wall. Cat. 8025, 8026. G. Brunoni- 

 nnum, Griff, in Lindl. Veq. Kingd. 233 ; Trans. Linn. Soc. xxii. 308, t. 55, 

 f. 9-20, and t, 56, f. 27, 28, 41, 43, 44-47; Notul. 30; Kurz in Flora Iv. 

 (1872) 349. G. Griffith!!, Parlat. I. c. 349, 352. 



KHASIA and MTTNNIPORE HILLS, and southward to SINGAPORE. DISTKIB. 

 Malay Islands. 



Usually a shrub, rarely a small tree, 10-15 ft. Leaves membranous or coriaceous, 

 4-8 in., very variable in length breadth and the number and direction of the nerves, 

 \\hich are either strong or faint, often brightly polisbed above, yellow green or brown 

 when dry, base acute ; petiole \ % in. Spikes about 1 in., slender; cupular bracts 

 at length distant. Seed \ in. long, orange-cold., shining. A very slender form from 

 Tenasserim, also named G. Brunonianum by Griffith, is noted by him as being scandent. 

 A specimen of apparently the same is in Wallich's herbarium from Penang, under 

 No. 8021 B ; it has pedicelled young fruit. These possibly may be a different species, 

 but the flowering spikes do not differ from those of G. Gnemon. 



2. Cr. ? negrlectum, Blume Rumpk. iv. 6, t. 175, f. 2, and t. 184; 

 Mus. Bot. i. 28 ; a dioecious climbing shrub, leaves rigidly coriaceous 

 elliptic-oblong or -lanceolate obtusely cuspidately acuminate or apiculate, 

 spikes solitary or panicled, hairs ronnd the ovary rusty-red, seed sessile. 

 Parlat. in DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 350; Kurz in Flora Iv. (1872) 350; For. 

 Fl. ii. 496. G. microcarpum, Blume Rumpli. 1. c.t. 175, f. 1 ; Mus. Bot. I. c. 

 29. G. apiculatum, Griff, in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxii. 308, t. 55, f. 21, 24-26, 

 and t. 56, f. 29-40; Notul. iv. 31. 



ARRACAN and TENASSERIM, Griffith, &c. (Kew Distrib. 4972). PERAK, Wray. 

 PENANG, Wallich, Curtis. MALACCA, Griffith. 



An evergreen climber. Leaves 34 in., very variable, usually very glossy above, 

 base rounded obtuse or acute, margins sometimes recurved ; nerves very faint ; 

 petiole %-\ in. Spikes short, fern, flowering ^-f in.; young fruiting 2 in.; young 

 seeds very acuminate. 1 am doubtful as to this being Biume's G. neglect'itm, which 

 he figures with acutely acuminate leaves (and describes as "rarissime obtusiuscula ") 

 and fruiting spikes 6 in. long. Griffith (Linn. Soc. Trans. I.e.) gives " Silhet, 

 Roxburgh," as a locality, but I have seen no specimens from so far north. 



3. Cr. macrostacliyum, HooJc.f. ; scandent, dioecious, leaves large 

 oblong or oblong-lanceolate very coriaceous base acute rounded or cordate, 

 fern, spikes as thick as the finger hairs round the ovules brown. 



SINGAPORE, Hullett. ? PENANG, Curtis. MALACCA, ? Mt. Ophir, Maingay. 



Leaves ; in Singapore specimens a lower pair are 8 by 4 in., cuspidate, with a 

 cordate base ; the upper are smaller, 7 by 2-i in., acuminate, base acute, very coria- 

 ceous, shining on .both surfaces and reticulate. Young male spikes 2% in. by Jin. 

 diam. ; fern. 4 in. long by | in. diam. ; cupular bracts short, close together, separated 

 only by the profuse hairs. Ovules acuminate, quite glabrous. The Penang speci- 

 mens are in ripe seed, have less coriaceous leaves narrowed into the petiole, and the 

 very old solitary fern, rachis sessile with close articulations, and a sessile broadly 

 ellipsoid seed f in. long, with rounded base and top. The Mt. Ophir specimens are in 

 young male fl. only. Possibly the Mt. Ophir and the Penang plant may not be the 

 same as the Singapore one, of which the great fern, spikes are most remarkable. A 

 drawing apparently of this species (in Herb. Kew) has oblong-lanceolate or oblan- 

 ceolate acuminate leaves, short very stout fruiting spikes 8 in. long, and elliptic- 

 oblong green sessile seeds 1^ in. long, with both ends rounded; it is in a collection of 

 drawings of Singapore plants (by Parry). 



** Seed stipitate. 



4. Cr. scandens, J?o.r&. Fl. Ind. iii. 518; a lofty dioecious climber, 



