ANONACEX OF BRITISH INDIA. 9] 
long, ovate, acute, pubescent.. Anthers many, short, compressed, the tops broad, flat, 
pubescent. Ovaries about as long as the stamens, narrowly cylindric; style long, 
straight, thick; stigma notched. Ripe carpels crowded, broadly ovoid, slightly apiculate, 
‘£ in. long. 
Perak; at Goping,—Xing’s Collector, Scortechini, Wray. 
Var. macrantha, King. Leaves narrowly elliptic or oblong, bluntly acuminate, 
puberulous beneath; outer petals 1:25 to 1:5. in. long. 
Penang and Province Wellesley,—Curtis Nos. 1840 and 2447. 
Prate 124. Goniothalamus Kunstleri, King. 1, Branch with buds, flowers and very 
young fruit; 2, ripe carpels; 3, flower dissected—of natural size; 4, anthers; 5, pistils— 
enlarged. 
7. GowntorHaLamus Watxert, Hook, fil. § Thoms. Fl. Ind. 109. A small tree; all 
parts, except the flowers and perhaps the fruit, glabrous. eaves membranous, oblong- 
lanceolate or lanceolate; the base cuneate; upper surface shining, the lower sub-glaucous ; 
main nerves 14 to 16 pairs, very faint, reticulations obsolete; length 5 to 12 in., breadth 
15 to 2:25 in.; petiole *25 in. Flowers axillary, red, sparsely pubescent; pedicels *1 to 
‘2 in. Sepals ovate, acute, *2 in. long, enlarging and persistent in fruit. Ouéer petals 
ovate-lanceolate, ‘8 in. long; inner °3 to *5 in.; style clavate; stigma 2-lobed. Thwaites’ 
Enum. 8 & 398; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i, 74. 
Ceylon: in the Singla Rajah Forest,— Walker. 
There are no flowering specimens of this in the Herbarium at Peradeniya 
(Ceylon); neither are there any at Calcutta. The figure given is from a specimen 
in the Herbarium, Kew. 
PrarE 125. Goniothalamus Walkeri, H. f. § 7. 1, Leaf twig with young fruit— 
of natural size; 2, ripe carpel; 3, section of same; 4, seed—enlarged. 
8. GOoNIOTHALAMUS RETICULATUS, Thwaites’ Enum. Pl. Cey., 7 & 398. A shrub 6 to 
8 feet high; young branches strigose, the bark very dark. Leaves membranous, narrowly 
oblong or oblong-lanceolate, shortly acuminate, the base slightly cuneate; both surfaces 
reticulate, minutely glandular-dotted, the upper glabrous; the lower with scattered stiff 
black hairs; main nerves 12 to 20 pairs, horizontal, inter-arching very freely, slightly 
prominent beneath; length 8 to 10 in., breadth 1-4 to 2 in.; petiole ‘3 in., deeply 
grooved. Flowers solitary, slightly supra-axillary; pedicels decurved, ‘15 in. long, bi- 
bracteolate, strigose. Sepals orbicular-ovate, acuminate, pubescent, deciduous. Petals 
reddish or yellowish-brown, oblong-lanceolate, pubescent, ‘75 in. long; inner broadly 
ovate, acute, half as long as the outer. Ovaries strigose ; styles 2-lobed. Ripe carpels 
sub-globose or oblong, blunt, “5 in long, rusty-pubescent, 1- to 2-seeded. Hook, fil. Fi. 
Br. Ind. i. 76; Beddome Ic. Pl. Ind. Or., ¢. 64. 
The globose carpels are 1-seeded: the oblong 2-seeded. 
Ceylon : between Galle and Ratnapoora. 
Puare 126. Goniothalamus reticulatus, Thwaites. 1, Flowering branch; 2, ripe 
carpels—of natural size ; 3, flower seen from above; 4, flower dissected ; 5, inner petals; 
Axn. Roy. Bor. Garp. Caucutra Vou. IV. 
