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the transverse nervules obscure. Inflorescence of axillary panicles, 
the flowers fasciculate; bracts at the bases of the pedicels caducous; 
flowers small, urceolate, pedicellate; bracteoles 0; perianth 3—4- 
toothed. Andrecium sessile; filaments combined in an oblong thick 
column; anthers 6—12, elongate, the lower parts adnate to the 
column by their backs, the apices free, often inflexed and covering 
almost the whole column. Stigmas sessile, connate, scarcely bilobed. 
Fruit globose or ovoid; pericarp thick, fleshy; arillus laciniate 
almost to the base. Seed conform to the fruit; testa woody; albu- 
men ruminate; cotyledons divaricate, connate at the base.—DrstTRIB. 
S. Asia from India to the Philippines and New Guinea, species 11. 
g flowers 4 mm. long, thickly rusty-tomentose, as is 
the undersurface of the leaves when young; leaves 
20—35 em. long. ae on -. IL. G@. Morront. 
g flowers at most 3 mm. long, almost glabrous; the 
undersurface of fully-developed leaves glabrous. 
Main nerves of the leaves strongly prominent 
beneath; leaves usually longer than 15cm. .. 2. G. ForseEstm. 
Main nerves of the leaves only slightly prominent 
beneath; leaves usually under 15 em. .. 3 G. FARQUHARIANA. 
1. GYMNACRANTHERA Murtoni, Warb. Monog. Myrist. 357, t. 
xx. (1897). A tree reaching 25 m. in height; branchlets stout, 
densely covered with very short rufous tomentum beneath which 
they are minutely lenticellate and striate; leaf-buds densely rufous- 
tomentose. Leaves coriaceous; elliptic-ovate, shortly and abruptly 
acuminate at apex, broadly rounded and often emarginate at base; 
upper surface glabrous, shining, lower covered with deciduous rusty 
tomentum, finally glabrous and subglaucous; margins slightly re- 
volute; 20-35 cm. long, 7—12 cm. broad; midrib stout, broad 
above, prominent beneath; main nerves 20—22 pairs, parallel, sub- 
horizontal, at first straight, curving and inter-arching near the 
margin; transverse nervules irregular, subparallel ; reticulation 
obscure; petiole 1—2 cm. long, stout, rugose, channelled above. 
Flowers: 3 in axillary densely silky, rufous-tomentose panicles up to 
8 cm. lone; branches spreading, many-flowered ; buds ovoid, 3—4 
mm. long; pedicels very short; perianth leathery with 2 or sometimes 
3 teeth, tomentose without, less so within ; andreecium sessile, broadly 
ovoid, obtuse at apex; anthers about 7—10, narrow, elongate, their 
apices free and acuminate: 2 very short, axillary, few-flowered, 
pedicels short. Fruit ovoid, flattened, acute at apex, obtuse at 
base, densely covered with rufous tomentum, 2:5 cm. long, 1° cm. 
