Gnetum.] CXLIII. GNETACE^. (J. D. Hooker.) 643 



leaves oblong or ovate obtusely cuspidate, spikes in stiff bracliiate panicles, 

 hairs round the ovary rusty (when dry), seed gradually stoutly stipitate 

 young often silvery scaly. Parlat. in DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 351; Griff, in 

 Trans. Linn. goc. xxii. 309, t. 55, f. 1-8, 22, 23, and t. 56, f. 39, 40, 42; 

 Notul. iv. 29 ; Brand. For, Fl. 502 ; Grah. Cat. Bomb. PI. 188 ; Dalz. <$f 

 Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 246. G. edule, Blume Nov. PL Fam. 31 ; Rumph. iv. 6 ; 

 Kurz in Flora Iv. (1872) 350 ; For. Fl. ii. 495 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 

 1068. G. gnemonoides and G. Ula, Brongn. in Duperr. Voy. Bot. 12. G. 

 funiculare, Wight Ic. t. 1955 (not of Blume). G. pyrifolium, Miquel in 

 Herb. Hohenack. No. 489. G. latifolium, Parlat. 1. c. 350 (not of Blume). 

 Thoa edulis, Willd. Sp. PI. iv. 477. Goetutn, Wall. Cat. 8023 and 8024. 

 Bheede Sort. Mai. vii. t. 22. 



EASTERN TROPICAL HIMALAYA, from Sikldm eastwards, and from ASSAM to 

 SIN&APOEB and the ANDAMAN ISLANDS. The DECCAN; on the Ghats from the 

 Concan to the Nilghiris. DISTBIB. Malay Islands. 



Trunk compressed, 45 ft, girth. Leaves 57 in., usually black when dry, 

 smooth and shining, reticulations lax ; petiole \-\ in. Male bracts closely imbricate, 

 fern, interrupted. Fruiting spikes 3-10 in. Seed oblong, 1-1^ in. long, terete, 

 orange-cold., top rounded, narrowed into a very stout stipes about ^ in. long, but 

 often much shorter. Kura describes the ovarian hairs as rusty, Griffith as white. 

 Neither Blume nor Roxburgh describes the silvery scales on the ovule and young seed, 

 which Kurz relies on for distinguishing this from G, funicular e. In many specimens 

 i find no trace of them. The Deccaii specimens have stouter male spikes than the 

 Eastern. 



Var. ? apoda; seed small f in. sessile. Sikkim Himalaya in the Terai. Perhaps 

 a distinct species, but the specimens are very imperfect. 



5. G-. funiculare, Blume Nov. PI. Fam. 32 ; Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 2, 

 v. 2, 106 ; Humph, iv. 7 ; a lofty dioecious climber, leaves oblong ovate or 

 lanceolate cuspidate or apiculate shining finely reticulate beneath, spikes 

 in stiff braehiate panicles, hairs round ovary rusty, seed quite glabrous 

 suddenly stipitate, stipes slender. Endl. Conif. 252 ; Parlat. in DC. Prodr. 

 xvi. ii. 351 ; Kurz in Flora Iv. (1872) 350; For. Fl. ii. 496; Miq. Fl. Ind. 

 Bat. ii. 1068 ; Brongn. in Duperr. Voy. Bot. 12. Abatua indica, Lour. Fl. 

 CocJi. 630. Gnetum, Wall. Cat. 8024 C. 



ASSAM, Lister-, PEGU and BURMA, Wallich, Kurz, 



Stem as thick as the arm (Kurz). Leaves 5-7 in., very variable in form ami 

 breadth, very shining brown or black when dry; base acute or obtuse; petiole -f in. 

 Male bracts hardly imbricate, fern, spikes twice as long as in G. scandens, bracts 

 interrupted. Seeds Jj-f in. long, oblong, apiculate, stipes %- in. 



6. G-. maeropodum, Kurz in Trimen. Journ. Bot. xiii. (1875) 331 ; 

 a lofty climber, leaves broadly oblong or elliptic, fern, spikes rameal panicled, 

 involucres cupular very short, hairs round ovule short ashy yellow, seed 

 smooth obtuse apiculate, stipes f-1^ in. long slender. 



NICOBAB, ISLANDS ; at Kamorta, Kurz. 



Leaves 6-7 by 3-4 in., base subacute, thinly coriaceous, conspicuously but laxly 

 reticulate. I have seen only fragmentary specimens. Kurz says it is very near G . 

 scandens, differing in the less coriaceous leaves and very long stipes of the seed. 



ORDER CXLIV. CONXFERJE. 



Trees or shrubs, wood-cells studded with disks. Leaves usually alter- 

 nate, rigid, linear or subulate, rarely broad, solitary or fascicled in meni- 



