824 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



slender, up to -5 in. long. Racemes fulvous-tomentose, terminal, 1 to 

 2 in. long ; cymules very short ; bracts small, caducous ; pedicels very 

 short flowers bright yellow. Calyx -15 to -2 in. long ; tube with large 

 flattened glands, otherwise pubescent ; teeth 4, very small, triangular, 

 acute. Corolla 2-lipped, obliquely funnel-shaped, puberulous without, 

 nearly 2 in. in length ; tube slender below, gradually inflated above ; 

 lobes 4, ovate, more or less rounded, the lowest the longest. Stamens 

 curved, slightly exsert ; filaments thickened, pubescent ; anther-cells 

 opening in a horseshoe, connective flattened, all 4 similar. Ovary 

 depressed, glabrous ; style slender, exsert ; stigma 2-lobed. Drupe 

 obovoid, yellow when ripe, '75 in. long; pyTene pyriform with a basal 

 cavity, bony. Seeds usually 1 or 2 only, oblong at base ; testa mem- 

 branous with a corky covering ; albumen fleshy. Roxb. Fl. Ind. III. 

 87 ; Lamk. 111. t. 542 ; Wall. Cat. 1818 {in part) ; Schauer in DC. Prodr. 

 XI. 679 ; Wight 111. t. 174 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. CXXXII ; Brandis For. Fl. 

 365 ; Blume Bijdr. 814 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 866 ; Clarke in Hook. f. 

 Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 582 ; Trimen Fl. Ceyl. III. 355 ; Cooke Bomb. Fl. 11. 

 425 ; Prain Beng. Plants 829. G. coromandeliana, Burm. Fl. Ind. 

 132. G. lobata, Gaertn. Fruct. I. 268, t. 56, excl. syn. Rumph. G. 

 parvifoUa, Roxb. Cor. PI. II. 32, t. 162 ; Wall. Cat. 2654 ; Schauer, I. c. 

 G. parviflora, Roxb. Fl. Ind III. 87. G. inermis, Blanco Fl. Filip. 493. 

 Michelia spinosa, Amman, in Act. Petrop. VIII. 218, t. 18. 



Peeak : Scortechini. Singapore : T. Anderson 135 ; Kurz ; Kunstler 

 102. — -DiSTRiB. India (Deccan Peninsula), Ceylon, Java, Borneo, &c. 



2. Gmelina villosa, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 46 (1814), and Fl. Ind. III. 

 86 (1832). A large straggling shrub or small tree with olive-coloured 

 bark ; branches spreading and drooping ; branchlets round, villous ; 

 spines straight, axillary, -25 to '5 in. long. Leaves membranous 

 when dry ; ovate trapeziform, acute at apex, cuneate at base ; upper 

 surface pubescent when young, glabrous and dark-coloured when old ; 

 lower surface fulvous-tomentose ; margins entire or sometimes obscurely 

 lobed ; 1 to 4 in. long, 1 to 2-5 in. broad ; midrib slender, raised beneath ; 

 main nerves pubescent above, 3 to 4 pairs, the lowest pair from just 

 above the base ; transverse nervules slender, nearly horizontal ; petiole 

 slender, -75 to 1*5 in. long, channelled above. Racemes fulvous-tomen- 

 tose, 1 to 2 in. long ; cymules very short ; bracts ovate-lanceolate, 

 cuspidate, about -5 in. long, more or less leafy, deciduous when the flowers 

 open; pedicels very short; flowers yellow. Calyx -15 in. long; tube 

 with 3 or more large glands on the under side ; teeth 4, small, trian- 

 gular, acute. Corolla-tuhe slender below for nearly -5 in., then obliquely 

 expanded for nearly 1 in., including the 4 lobes, the lowest of which is 

 longest. Anthers, especially of longer pair of stamens, with the connec- 



