514 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Tlie description of Wallich is most detailed, and, it may be mentioned here, gives 

 a brief account of Mr. George Finlayson, in whose honour the genus was named. 



6. Gymnantheea, Br. 



Glabrous climbing shrubs. Leaves opposite. Floivers in short 

 axillary peduncled cymes, usually 2-branchecl ; branches racemose 

 pedicels slender. Calyx short, 5-partite, with 5 or 10 or more minute 

 membranous scales within at the base. Corolla hypocrateriform or 

 rotate; the lobes spreading, overlapping to the right. Corona-processes 

 5, filiform on a broad base, often bifid, affixed to the corolla-tube closely 

 behind the stamens and subconnate with them. Stamens inserted in 

 the tube of the corolla ; filaments short, slender above, dilated at the 

 base and subconnate ; anthers adherent to the style-apex, produced 

 above in acuminate connivent appendages ; pollen granular, in several 

 masses in each anther-cell ; the granules elongate, of 3 to 4 grains 

 lineally arranged ; pollen-carriers large, glandular ; caudicles slender, 

 appendicles spathulate, carriers attached to the style-apex. Style 

 short ; style-apex convex, 5-lobed at base. Fniit of 2 cylindric divari- 

 cate follicular mericarps. Seed not known. — Disteib. About 5 species : 

 of the Malay Archipelago and tropical Australia. 



Gymnantheea insulaeum. King & Gamble, n. sp. A climbing 

 shrub ; branches woody, thick, rough, with dark brown smooth bark and 

 occasional lenticels. Leaves chartaceous ; elliptic or elliptic-oblong, 

 rounded with a short acumen at apex, attenuate at base ; upper surface 

 dark brown when dry, lower greyish-white, both surfaces glabrous ; 

 margins slightly recurved, 2-5 to 3-5 in. long, 1 to 1"5 in. broad ; midrib 

 prominent, pale, impressed above, raised beneath ; main nerves 12 to 14 

 pairs, at about 70° with the midrib, slightly curved upwards to join a 

 faint intramarginal looped nerve; secondary nerves faint, short; reticula- 

 tions netted, impressed above when dry ; petiole slender, -5 to -75 in. 

 long, channelled above. Cymes puberulous, about as long as the petiole ; 

 peduncle short, '2 in. long ; branches 2, racemose, with many pairs of 

 minute, ovate, acute bracts ; pedicels rather stout, -15 in. long ; buds 

 ovoid. Calyx very small ; lobes scarcely "025 in. long, margins hyaline ; 

 scales very small, 5 opposite to and 5 alternate with the lobes. Corolla- 

 tube very short ; lobes ovate-oblong, acute, -15 to -2 in. long, slightly 

 overlapping to the right, reflexed in flower. Co?'ona-processes 5, behind 

 the filaments, bifid; the lobes subulate, inner one the longer, -03 in. long. 

 Stamens inserted on the corolla-tube ; filaments slender, broadened and 

 connected at base ; anthers rounded ; connective produced in an 

 acuminate tip ; pollen granular, in many masses, each made up of 3 to 4 



