10 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
shorter than the ovary; stigma clavate.. Ripe carpels ovoid or sub-globose, blunt at each 
end, densely tawny-tomentose, °8 in. long; stalks about °35 in, Seed solitary, ovoid, with 
a prominent vertical groove, 
Perak,— King’s Collector Nos, 3856, 5514, 6643, 7630, 
Pate 219, Griffithia cupularis, Aig, 1, Flowermg branch; 2, young bud; 3, 
bud nearly expanded; 4, ripe fruit; 5, seed; 6, flower dissected—of natural size ; 
7 & 8, anthers; 9 & 10, pistils—enlarged. 
3. Grirriraia Fusca, King n. sp, A small tree 10 to 20 feet high; young branches 
minutely rufous-tomentose, speedily becoming glabrous and furrowed. Leaves thinly 
coriaceous, oblong to oblong-oblanceolate, acute; the base rounded, never cordate; upper 
surface shining, quite glabrous except the puberulous: midrib; the lower sparsely and 
softly pubescent; main nerves 12 to 16 pairs, oblique, curved at the tips and inter- 
arching faintly close to the edge, prominent on the lower, depressed on the upper, 
surface; length 6 to 8 in., breadth 1:75 to 2°75 in,; petiole *2 to °3 in., stout. Flowers 
solitary, extra-axillary; the buds globular at first, but pointed and elongating with age; 
the outer petals imbricate near the apex, the mner imbricate in the upper half; 
pedicels stout, *25 to ‘4 in, long, yellowish-tomentose, with 2 ovate bracteoles near the 
base. Sepals slightly imbricate at the base, broadly ovate, sub-acute, spreading, minutely 
tomentose outside, glabrous inside. Petals thick, concave, ovate-oblong, sub-acute, cream- 
coloured ; the outer about 1 in, long in the newly-expanded bud, but probably lengthen- 
ing after the expansion of the flower; the imner shorter and narrower, all minutely 
tomentose externally, pubescent internally in the upper two-thirds, and glabrous in the 
lower third. Stamens numerous, the connective with flat, horizontal, apical process; the 
anthers linear, dorsal, Ovaries few, elongate, ovoid, villous, l-ovuled; style short, 
cylindric; stigma sub-capitate, pubescent. Ripe carpels ovoid, slightly apiculate, densely 
but minutely rusty-tomentose, °65 in. long. 
Perak,—King’s Collector Nos. 8346, 10110, 10180 and 10404; Wray No, 1432, 
A species resembling G. magnoliepetala, Maingay; but differing from that in its 
smaller flowers, leaves pubescent underneath, and more hairy carpels. The sepals in this 
are much less imbricate than in G, magnoliepetala, and so are the petals; in other 
respects the two are closely allied. From some fragments of a fully developed flower 
which accompany one of the Perak specimens, I gather that the outer petals lengthen 
much after the expansion of the bud and probably measure as much as 2 inches, while 
their shape becomes linear-obtuse. In the accompanying drawing I show the shape of 
the petals as they are found in a far-advanced bud. 
PLATE 220. Griffithia fusca, King, 1, Branch with young fruit; 2, flowering twig 
with buds just opening (the leaves removed); 3, calyx; 4, calyx and andro-gyncecium— 
of natural size; 5, nearly expanded flower-bud dissected; 6 & 7, stamens: 8 & 9 
pistils—enlarged. : : 
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