800 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



dilated at the throat ; limb spreading, lobes 5 rounded. Anther-cells 

 •05 in. long ; filaments villous ; staminodes subulate, villous, -15 to -2 in. 

 long. Fruit oblong, ovoid or somewhat pyriform, tipped with the long 

 remains of the style ; pyrenes plano-convex, very hard, -2 to -25 in. long. 

 Seed oblong, '15 in. long ; testa membranous ; cotyledons obovate, -1 in. 

 long, fleshy. Schauer in DC. Prodr. XI. 565 ; Bot. Mag. t. 976 ; Cooke 

 Bomb. M. II. 422 ; Baker in Dyer Fl. Trop. Afr. V. 284. Verbena 

 mutahilis, Jacq. Coll. 2, 334; Icon. Ear. 2, 207; Andr. Bot. Eep. 

 t. 435. 



Penang : Curtis 867 ; Birch ; Bidley 7044. Singapore : in waste 

 places, Deschamps. — Distrib. A native of Tropical America, widely 

 spread in the Old World, e.g., Southern India, Java, Central Africa 



Tribe II. Vitice^. 

 4. Geunsia, Blume. 



Trees or large shrubs, stellately tomentose. Leaves opposite or 

 occasionally alternate by the separation of the leaves of a pair, petiolate, 

 entire. Flowers small, in many-flowered pedunculate cymes in the 

 upper axils of the branchlets ; bracts linear, small. Calyx campanu- 

 late, shortly 5- to 6-toothed. Corolla campanulate ; tube exsert, 

 funnel-shaped ; lobes 5, spreading. Stamens 5 to 6 ; anthers oblong, 

 exserted, glandular, dorsifixed; cells parallel, dehiscing longitudinally 

 but more widely at tip ; filaments slender. Ovary imperfectly 5-, 

 rarely 4- to 3-celled; the cells 2-ovulate; the ovules fixed laterally 

 above the middle of the cell; style exsert, stout; stigma 5- or less 

 lobed, dilated. Drupe small, globose, depressed, on the persistent 

 not enlarged calyx ; exocarp thin ; mesocarp granular ; endocarp 

 hard; pyrenes 5 to 10, equal in number to the ovules, 1-seeded. Seeds 

 small, oblong-ovoid ; testa thin ; albumen none ; cotyledons fleshy ; 

 radicle inferior. — Distrib. 3 to 4 species, of the Malay Peninsula and 

 Archipelago. 



Geunsia farinosa, Blume Bijdr. 819 (1826). A large tree, reaching 

 60 to 70 ft. in height and a considerable diameter ; the upper branches, 

 inflorescence, and under surface (also upper surface when young) of 

 leaves covered more or less densely with stellate furfuraceous pale 

 brown tomentum, and also often with minute rounded glands. Leaves 

 coriaceous, ovate or elliptic-oblong, long cuspidate-acuminate at apex, 

 rounded or subacute at base ; upper surface when young farinose, later 

 glabrous ; lower surface rugose ; margin entire or minutely denticulate, 

 5 to 9 in. long, 2 to 4 in. broad ; midrib prominent ; main nerves 10 to 



