510 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



the midrib, straight to join an intramarginal looped nerve ; secondary 

 nerves few, very faint ; reticulations not visible ; petiole '25 in. long, 

 channelled above, sometimes bearing small stipular glands at the base. 

 Racemes up to 2 in. long, 1- to 3-flowered, with pairs of persistent ovate 

 scarious bracts; pedicels slender, -15 in. long; buds ovoid, acute; flowers 

 deep red. Galij xAoheB ovate, acute, hyaline, -1 in. long, with ovate 

 acute membranous scales '03 in. long between each at the base within. 

 Gorolla-\ohQ% oblong or obovate-oblong, -5 in. long by -3 in. broad, minutely 

 papillose within ; tube salver-shaped at base. Appendages of stamens 

 erect, bearded, about '03 in. long; appendicles of pollen- carriers as long. 

 Follicles slender, 5 to 6 in. long, -2 in. broad, very acute, divaricate in 

 a straight line, tips straight ; pericarp thin, rough, striate, dark brown. 

 Seeds many, oblong, ridged on the ventral surface, "275 in. long, -075 in. 

 broad, with a few sparse white curly hairs and a deciduous silky white 

 spreading coma about 1'5 in. long ; testa thin, dark brown ; albumen 

 thin ; cotyledons oblong -15 in. long by "05 in. broad; radicle cylindric, 

 •1 in. long. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 471; Engl. & Prantl Naturl. 

 Pflanzenfam. IV. 2, 211, fig. 63, d.e. 



Perak : at Eelan Tujor, Wray 1817, 1025; Scortechini ISQS; King's 

 Collector 1825, 3514. — Distrib. Sumatra {Prcetorius, Beccari 610). 



3. GoNGYLOSPERMA, King & Gamble, nov. gen. 



A shrub. Leaves opposite, strongly nerved. Flowers in axillary or 

 pseudo-terminal, bracteate, paniculate cymes; the branches 2- to 3-choto- 

 mous ; pedicels slender. Calyx short, 5-partite : scales combined in a 

 ring. Corolla rotate-campanulate ; the tube short ; lobes oblong, over- 

 lapping to the right. Corona none. Stamens inserted on the corolla- 

 tube ; filaments free, broad and nearly confluent at base ; anthers short ; 

 appendages short, triangular, incurved over the style-apex ; pollen- 

 granules elongate, of 3 to 1 pollen-grains in one line ; pollen-carriers 

 minute, appendicles spathulate. Ovary of 2 carpels ; styles distinct below, 

 combined above ; style-apex obscurely 5-angled, flattened at top. Fruit 

 of 2 short divaricate oblong follicular mericarps ; pericarp thin, pubescent. 

 Seeds very small, oblong-cylindric, with a white silky coma ; albumen 

 copious ; cotyledons fleshy ; radicle cylindric. — Distrib. A single 

 species only as so far known. 



GoNGYLOSPERMA CuRTisii, King & Gamble, n. sp. A small shrub; 

 branches smooth, brown. Leaves coriaceous ; lanceolate or oblong- 

 lanceolate, acute at apex, attenuate at base ; both surfaces rugose, the 

 upper slightly puberulous, tlie lower pubescent, both ashy grey, the 

 lower much the paler; margins recurved ; 2'5 to 4'5 in. long, '75 to 1'75 



