96 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
Known only by Griffith’s imperfect specimens. 
Prate 134, Goniothalamus fulvus, H. f. & Th. 1, Branch with bud and flower— 
of natural size ; 2, flower dissected ; 3, inner petals; 4 & 5, anthers; 6 & 7, pistils— 
enlarged. 
18. GonroTHaLamus Curtisu, King ix Journ. As. Soc. Bengal 61, pt. 2, 75. 
A shrub or small slender tree; young branches densely rusty-tomentose, the larger 
pale and glabrous. Leaves stoutly membranous, narrowly oblong to obovate-oblong, 
more or less abruptly and shortly acuminate, slightly narrowed to the rounded base ; 
upper surface. shining, glabrous, except the puberulous midrib ; the lower sparsely 
puberulous, the midrib and nerves dark rusty-tomentose ; the latter 28 to 34 pairs, 
sub-horizontal, inter-arching near the margin, very prominent, as is the midrib, on 
the lower and depressed on the upper surface; length 9 to 15 im, breadth 8 to 45 
in,; petiole °35, channelled, pubescent. lowers solitary, from the stem; pedicels stout, 
decurved, each with two deciduous bracteoles at the base, °6 in. long. Sepals large, 
green, rigidly membranous, conjoined into a cup with 3 broadly-ovate, sub-acute teeth, 
boldly nerved and reticulate, minutely rufous-pubescent, persistent ; length from ‘75. to 
1 in. Petals coriaceous, velvety-tomentose, yellowish, tinged with red; the outer 
broadly lanceolate, acuminate, slightly narrowed and thickened at the base, from 1°25 
to 1:75 in. long; the inner rather more than one-third as long, ovate, acuminate. 
Anthers numerous, compressed, linear, with acute granular conical. apices. Ovaries 
numerous, narrowly elongate, densely pubescent, l-ovuled; style straight; stigma 
oblique, minutely lobed. Ripe carpels obliquely. ovoid, with long pointed slightly 
hooked apices, rufous-pubescent, ‘75 in. long; stalks only °1 im. long, stout. 
Selangor,—Curtis Nos. 3810 and 2316. Perak,—King’s Collector No. 10548, 
Scortechini No. 660. | : 3 
A very distinct species. 
Prate 185. Goniothalamus Curtisii, King. 1, Flowering branch; o; flower dissected; 
3, inner petals ; 4, ripe carpels—of natural size; 5, anthers; 6 & 7, pistils—enlarged. 
19. GonrorHaLamus Simonsu, Hook. fil. & Thoms. Fl. Ind. 108. A small tree ; 
young branches brown-tomentose. Leaves thinly coriaceous, oblong-elliptic, shortly 
abruptly and bluntly caudate-acuminate, the base cuneate; upper surface glabrous, 
the lower sparsely (the midribs. and nerves densely) pubescent; main nerves 14 to 18 
pairs, spreading, inter-arching boldly, prominent beneath; the transverse veins few, 
conspicuous ; length 9 to 14 in., breadth 2°75 to 5 in.; petiole *d in., brown-pubescent. 
Flowers axillary or from the branches below the leaves, -4 in. long, with a brown- 
pubescent oblong obtuse bracteole near the base. Sepals broadly ovate, acuminate, 
nerved, pubescent, persistent, °3 in. long. Petals very coriaceous, densely pubes- 
cent outside, minutely pubescent imside; the outer ovate-acuminate, boldly nerved 
outside, 15 to 2 in. long; the inner about one-third as long, ovate, acute, not 
nerved, Anthers with a conical apical process. Style cylindric. Torus large, pubescent, 
globular, -5 in. in diam. Ripe carpels oblong, mucronate, ‘5 in. long. Hook. fil. £1. 
Br. dnd. i. 74, 
Khasia Hills: alt. 2,000 to 4,000 feet,—Simons, Hooker, Mann, 
