Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 823 



A specimen bearing Father Scortechini's ticket, but without number and without 

 any note of locality, appears to be Premna acuminata, K. Br. Prod. Nov.-Holl. 512 ; 

 Benth. & Muell. Fl. Aust. V. 60, a North Australian species with long-petioled, cor- 

 date-ovate, deltoid, poplar-like leaves, and very loose panicles. It may very likely 

 have been collected in a Botanic Garden. 



A specimen collected by E. Derry at Bukit Borwang, Malacca, is too incomplete 

 for identification. It may belong to P. leucostoma, Miq. Fl Ind. Bat. II. 899. 



8. Gmelina, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs, unarmed or armed with axillary divaricate spines 

 (abortive branchlets). Leaves opposite, entire or more or less lobed. 

 Floioers large, yellow or brownish-yellow, often tomentose, in dense or 

 lax sessile or pedunculate cymes along the branches of a terminal pani- 

 cle ; bracts usually small, sometimes large, leafy and coloured. Calyx 

 campanulate, 4- to 5-toothed or subentire, persistent and unaltered in 

 fruit. Corolla obliquely campanulate or' funnel-shaped ; tube slender 

 below, much dilated above ; limb spreading, oblique, 4- to 5-lobed. 

 Stamens 4 didynamous, inserted below the throat of the corolla, 

 included ; anthers pendulous, with oblong sub-separate cells. Ovary 

 4-celled, the cells 1-ovuled ; style slender ; stigma shortly 2-fid ; ovules 

 laterally attached to the septum at their middle or higher. Fruit a 

 succulent drupe ; endocarp bony, 2- to 4-celled, usually with a conical 

 hollow in the middle open on one side. Seeds oblong ; testa thin, with a 

 corky layer outside ; albumen none ; cotyledons fleshy ; radicle inferior. 

 — DisTEiB. Species about 11, in India, Malaya, China and Australia. 



Leaves glaucescent beneath with minute glands, usually 3- or more 



lobed .. .. .. .. .. .. 1. G. asiatica. 



Leaves fulvous-tomentose beneath, rarely lobed . . . . 2. G. villosa. 



G. Htstbix, Schultes ex Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. XXXIX. ii. 81 (1870), and For. 

 Fl. II. 263, is a large spinous scandent shrub with very large coloured bracts, a native 

 of Siam and the Philippines, also, according to Kurz, Tenasserim. It is probably 

 only a garden escape in Singapore (Garden road, Ridley 3944). 



1. Gmelina asiatica, Linn. Sp. PI. 626 (1753). A much-branched 

 spinous straggling shrub ; bark yellowish- white ; branchlets horizontal, 

 rigid, puberulous, the smaller ones often becoming spines at their ends. 

 Leaves membranous ; ovate or elliptic or obovate, often 3- or more lobed, 

 the midlobe the longest ; upper surface glabrous, lower surface 

 glaucescent from a coating of minute round glands, and villous on the 

 nerves; margins entire except for the 3 or sometimes more lobes 

 which point upwards ; -75 to 1-5 in. long, -5 to 1 in. broad ; midrib 

 slender ; main nerves 2 to 3 pairs ; reticulations few ; petiole very 



