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Prate 137, Goniothalamus Simonsii, Z. J. § Th. 1, Branch with leaf and flowers; 
2, leaf from another specimen; 3, flower dissected—of natural size; 4, anthers ; 
5, pistil—enlarged. 
20. Gontornaramus Grirrirai, Hook. fil. § Th Fl. Ind. 110. A large shrub 
or small tree; all parts glabrous except the ovaries and carpels ; young branches 
dark-coloured, eaves coriaceous, oblong, sub-acute, or shortly and obtusely acuminate, 
the base cuneate ; both surfaces shining ané@ reticulate; main nerves 12 to 20 pairs, 
faint, speading, inter-arching within the edge; length 7 to 12 in, breadth 18 to 
3°> m.; petiole ‘25 to °d in. thick. Flowers solitary, axillary or extra-axillary ; 
pedicel *5 to 1 in. long with a few sealelike bracteoles near the base. Sepals 
thinly coriaceous, orbicular-ovate, blunt, connate below, nerved and reticulate, persis- 
tent, ‘d to ‘75 im. long. Petals thickly coriaceous; the outer broadly lanceolate, 
acuminate, 1:5 to 2°5 im. long; the inner ovate, acute, “6 to ‘8 in. long. Anthers 
with an acute apical process. Ovaries strigose; style long, subulate ; stigma — slightly 
bifid. Lipe carpels sub-sessile, oblong, *5 or *6 in, long, glabrescent or glabrous. Hook. 
fil. Fl. Bro Ind. 1. 73; Kurz For. Fl. Burm. i, 42; King in Journ, As. Soc. Bengat 
61, pt. 2, 7d. 
Burmah : Mergui,—Grifith ; Moulmein,—Falconer, 
Pate 136. Goniothalamus Griffithii, H. f. § Th. 1, Flowering branch; 2, flower 
dissected (from another specimen); 3, ripe fruit—of natural size; 4, anthers; 5, pistil— 
enlarged. 
21. GONIOTHALAMUS MACRO Lus, H. f. § Th, Fl. Br. Ind. i. 74. A glabrous shrub 
5 to 15 feet high; young branches very stout, dark-coloured. Leaves coriaceous, large, 
oblong-lanceolate to oblong-oblanceolate, acute or shortly acuminate, slightly narrowed to 
the sub-acute or rounded base; main nerves 16 to 20 pairs, spreading, impressed above 
and slightly prominent beneath; length 10 to 18 in., breadth 2°5 to 4:5 in.; petiole °6 
to 1 im, very stout. Flowers slightly supra-axillary or from the branches below the 
leaves, solitary or in pairs, green; pedicels -35 in, long, sub-clavate, Sepals broadly 
ovate, acute, connate at the base, *65 in. long, slightly puberulous, tinged with purple. 
Petals coriaceous; the outer oblong-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, 1 to 1°5 in. long ; 
the inner half as long, ovate, acuminate, the edges ciliate. Stamens numerous, linear 
Ovaries 12 to 18, glabrous, l-ovuled; style slender, dilated above; stigma 2-lobed, Ripe 
carpels globular-obovoid, slightly apiculate, glabrous, ‘4 in. long. Seed pale ee Mig. 
Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2, 28; Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. ii 38; King in Journ, As. es Bengat 
61, pt. 2, 76.—Polyalthia macrophylla, Blume Fl. Jav. Anon, 79, ¢. 89.—Unona 
Buds. 1. 1%. 
gee plat a ca two species may be included here, there being some difference 
between ae specimens in the nervation of the leaves, and also in the size and nerva- 
ee i ig heer Maingay (Kew Distrib.) Nos. 62 and 1515. Perak,—King’s Collector. 
Baas Hii tis, Kedah,—Curtis. Distrib—Sumatra,—Beccari, forbes No. 1379. Java, 
Paes Blume. ) ; 
en ce 132. Goniothalamus macrophyllus, H. f. & Th. 1, Branch with leaves and 
flower: 2, ripe carpels; 3, flower; 4). flower with outer petals taken out; 5, side view 
0 ae, ess 
Axn. Roy. Bot. Garp. Catcutta Vor LY: 
