JOURNAL 



OP THE 



LIBRARY 

 NEW YORI 

 BOTAMCAI 



ASTATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, qarden. 



Vol. LXXIV., Part II.— Extra Number, 1908. 



Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. — By Sir George 

 King, K.C.I.E., LL.D., F.R.S., late Su2)erinte7iclent of the Royal 

 Botanic Garden, Calcutta, and J. Sykes Gamble, C.I.E., E.E.S., 

 late of the Indian Forest Department. 



No. 21. 



This Part contains two Families, No. 86 Gesneracecs and No. 90 

 VerbenacecB, and completes the account of the Gamopetalae. The 

 account of the Gesneracece was prepared by Mr. H. N. Ridley, F.R.S., 

 Director of the Botanic Garden at Singapore, and was published in the 

 ' Jom-nal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society for 1905.' 

 The material used by him was that of the Herbaria of Singapore and 

 Penang, together with that belonging to the Royal Botanic Garden of 

 Calcutta, and chiefly got together by collectors employed by Sir George 

 King, lent to Mr. Ridley for the purpose. The account in the ' Straits 

 Journal' not being quite in the form used in the 'Materials,' published 

 under the auspices of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, has been edited by 

 Mr. Gamble, with the kind help of Lt.-Col. Prain, of Kew, but he has 

 been careful to make no more formal alterations than could be helped ; 

 so that the work is one for which Mr. Ridley alone is responsible. Only 

 numbers personally verified or quoted by Mr. Ridley have been entered 

 under the different species. Mr. Ridley, who has sanctioned what has 

 been done, has himself furnished a few notes and additions, among 

 them being descriptions of 3 new species, one of them the representative 

 of a new genus. The number of species of GesneracecB herein described 

 is 131, belonging to 20 genera, 1 genus and 2 species being new, besides 

 1 Sumatran species newly described. 



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