Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 801 



12 pairs obliquely curved upwards and joined l)y many more or less 

 parallel transverse nerves ; reticulations close ; petiole stout, 1 in. long, 

 channelled above, the opposite ones joined by a raised line. Cymes 

 rounded, dichotomously branched, 1'5 to 2 in. broad; peduncles 1 to 

 1"5 in, long; bracts subulate, '15 to -2 in. long; pedicels very short; 

 flowers reddish-purple. Calyx "06 in. deep, glabrous within. Gorolla- 

 tube -1 to '2 in. long, glandular; lobes recurved, -05 in. long, rounded. 

 Stamens exserted ; filaments a little longer than the corolla-tube ; 

 anthers "1 in. long, very glandular on the back. Drupe reddish-black 

 when ripe, "15 in. broad, '1 in. in diam., top depressed. Clarke in Hook, 

 f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 566 ; Bocquillon Revis. Verben. 89, t. 8 ; Koord. & 

 Valeton Bijdr. VII. 173. G. Cumingiana, Rolfe in Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 XXI. 315. Callicarpa pentandra, Roxb. Fl. Ind. I. 395 ; Wall. Cat. 

 1836; Schauer in DC. Prodr. XI. 646; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 885. 

 C. acuminatissima, Teysm. & Binn. in Batav. Nat. Tijdschr. XXV. 409. 

 C. Cumingiana, Schauer, I. c. 644. 



Kedah : on Langkawn Island, Curtis 2552. Peeak : King's Collector 

 859, 972 (part), 5731, 8547. Selangoe: at Batu Tiga, Curtis 3767 

 at Ginting Bidai, Bidley 7599 ; at Rawang, Bidley 10494. Singapore 

 Wallich 1836.— DisTEiB. Java [Forbes 315, 375, 539, 602 ; Kollman 

 Koorders 15204b), Borneo {Beccari 786; Haviland 554, 1343, 3553 

 Motley 385), Amboina, Philippine Islands, &c. 



The following Bornean species seems to be undescribed : — 



Gednsia Havilandii, King & Gamble in Kew Bull. 105 (1908). A tree (?) ; 

 branches, inflorescence, and under surface of leaves densely tawny-stellate-pubescent 

 and strigosely hairy. Leaves opposite, ovate or ovate-oblong, shortly acuminate and 

 mucronate at apex, acute or cuneate at base ; upper surface strigosely scabrous- 

 hispid on the upper surface, especially on the midrib ; lower surface rugose, stellate- 

 pubescent and studded with peltate glands ; margins rather distinctly denticulate ; 

 2-0 to to 6 in. long, 1-5 to 2-5 in. broad ; midrib stout, prominent ; main nerves 9 to 

 11 pairs, prominent beneath, gently curving upwards to anastomose near the margin, 

 joined by conspicuous transverse nervelets ; reticulations netted ; petiole stout, tawny- 

 hispid, '5 to '75 in. long. Cymes axillary, few-flowered, subsessile, scarcely longer 

 than the petiole ; bracts very small, subulate ; pedicels slender, short. Calyx cam- 

 panulate, glabrous within, without very strigosely hispid ; teeth 5, minute in bud, 

 afterwards elongating to -05 in. long. Corolla campanulate, nearly glabious except for 

 peltate shining glands; tube -1 in. long; lobes 5, ovate, rounded, about -OTo in. long, 

 recurved in flower. Staviens exserted; filaments slender, glabrous; anthers "1 in. 

 long, oblong, prominently yellow-glandular on the back. Ovary thickly glandular, 

 depressed ; style slender, 2 in. long ; stigma shortly 5-lobed. Drupe reddish-black 

 when dry, "15 in. in diam., top depressed, dividing into 5 pyrenes ; fruiting calyx 

 flattened. 



Borneo : at Sarawak, Beccari 3240 ; Haviland 3549 k and l : near Kuching, 

 Haviland 889. 



