8 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
sub-acute, the base sub-cuneate or rounded; upper surface shining, the lower dull, 
paler, the midrib puberulous; main nerves 10 or 12 pairs, spreading, very faint ; 
leneth 4:5 to 10 in., breadth 1:5 to 8 in.; petiole ‘20 in. Flowers ‘3 in. mm diam., 
yellow, bisexual, solitary, or in fascicles of 2 to 10 on small woody tubercles on 
the branches below the leaves; pedicels -4 or ‘5 to 1 in. long with numerous 
scaly bracteoles at the base. Sepals orbicular, connate for half their length, glabrous, 
ciliate on the margins like the petals. Petals very concave, orbicular ; the outer 
-3 in. long, larger than the inner. Stamens 12 to 18; the outer row sometimes 
imperfect; connective very broad, projecting above the dorsal anthers. Ovaries 3 to 9, 
oblong, hairy; ovules about 12 in 2 rows; style short, lateral, glabrous; stigma small, 
capitate, entire. Ripe carpels sub-sessile, globose, glabrous, 1 in. in diam. Dalzell & 
Gibson, Bombay Flora 2; Hook. fil. & Thoms. Fl. Ind. 93.—S. Dalzelli, Bedd. Ie. 
Pl. Ind. Or. t. 42.—QGuatteria laurifolia, Graham Cat. Bombay Plants 4.—Bocagea 
Dalzelli, Hook. fil. & Thoms. Fl. Br. Ind. 1. 92. 
Western Peninsula: in the Concan,—JZaw, Graham, Stocks. 'Travancore,—Beddome, 
Pratt 35B. Sagereea laurina, Dalzell. 1, Flowering branch; 2, fascicle of flowers 
from an old branch—of natural size; 8, flower-bud; 4, flower dissected; 5, ovaries and 
calyx—enlarged ; 6 & 7, anthers; 8, pistil; 9, section of pistil—much enlarged. (Nos. 2 
and 3 to 10 are copied from Beddome Ic. Pl. Ind. Or., t. 42.) 
3. Griffithia, Maingay uss. 
Trees or shrubs. Flowers bisexual, rather large, axillary, solitary or in pairs. 
Sepals broad, short, much imbricate. Petals 6,. imbricate in 2 series, ovate; the inner 
row smaller and much thicker than the outer, excavated at the base. Stamens numer- 
ous, flattened, elongate; the connective truncate, not produced; anther-cells long, 
linear, dorsal. Ovaries numerous; ovules solitary or a pair, basal; style filiform; stigma 
broadly clavate. Ripe carpels ovoid, stalked, with a single ovoid, smooth, furrowed 
seed, Four species—all Malayan. 
This genus was originally founded by Maingay for the reception of the plant 
which appears in the Flora of British India as Polyalthia magnolieflora, and which 
differs notably from typical Polyalthia in haying imbricate petals. Since Maingay’s 
time good specimens of two closely allied plants possessing similar characters have 
been collected in Perak. ‘These all have the single or paired ovules, the seed and 
the general facies of Polyalthia, but they have the imbricate sepals mF Sagereea, the 
imbricate petals of Guatteria, the style and stigma of Goniothalamus and Rian £ 
and the stamens of Uvaria. With so many aberrant characters, it appears Aapisatle te 
re-establish Maingay’s unpublished genus. It is unfortunate that the name Grifithi 
has already been applied to a group of Rubiaceous plants, Aleit 
ooni . which is, however 
recognised as a section of the genus Randia, ? ver, now 
Leaves glabrous or glabrescent beneath. 
Flowers 25 to 3 in. long 1. G. magnoliepetala. 
Flowers 1 in. long . 
, 2. G. cupularis, 
Leaves softly pubescent beneath 
~ » & G. fusca. 
