DESCRIPTIONS 
OF 
A SECOND CENTURY 
OF 
NEW AND RARE INDIAN PLANTS. 
PLATE 1. 
GONIOTHALAMUS PEDUNCULARIS King $ Prain, in Journ, As. Soc. Beng. lxvii. 
2. 284 (1898). 
Natural order Anonacee. 
А shrub? young branches slender, glabrous; leaves thinly coriaceous, oblong, 
somewhat oblanceolate, shortly acuminate, the base cuneate ; both surfaces glabrous, 
dul, the lower pale-brown when dry; main-nerves 10 to 12 pairs, curved, inter- 
arching within the edge, somewhat prominent on the lower, obsolete on the upper 
surface when dry; length 1:5—2-5 dm., breadth 4—6 cm. ; flowers solitary, erect, 
slightly supra-axillary, 4 ст. long, their pedicels somewhat exceeding 9:5 cm., adpressed- 
puberulous and minutely bracteolate near the base; sepals fleshy, free, ovate, subacute, 
spreading, puberulous on both surfaces, 1 em. long; petals fleshy: the outer row 
obliquely ovate-lanceolate acuminate, contracted and thickened at the base and 
excavated on the inner surface, adpressed-pubescent externally and at the base inter- 
nally, otherwise glabrous, 4 cm. long and 2 ста. wide at the broadest part ; inner 
row ovate, acute, narrowed at the base, pubescent on both surfaces but especially on 
the outer, cohering in the upper half to form а ealyptra with three o penings at 
its base; anthers numerous, sessile, linear, their apices capitate; різшіз about 20, 
the ovaries linear; the styles twice as long, linear, pubescent; fruit unknown. 
Uprer Burma: Kachin Hills, road to Sima, 1,000 ft. above sea level; Collectors of 
the Bol. Gard., Calcutta 1 
Of all the Indian species of this genus those which most resembles this are 
the Ceylon G. Gardneri Н. f. & T. and 6. Thwaitesii Н, f. & T. 
Pirate 1.—Goniothalamus penduneularis King $ Prain. 1, flowering branch ; 2, flower ; 8, flower 
dissected ; 4, essential organs, laid bare; 5, inner petals,—of natural size ; 
6, anthers, —en/arged. 
Specimen from Sima Road, Kachin Hills, 1,000 ft. 
9 А ا‎ P. 
Ann. Roy. Вот. Garp. Care., Vor. 1X, 
