124 King & Gamble — Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. 4, 



A very distinct species named in honour of Captain Gage, Curator of the 

 Calcutta Herbarium, who was the first to recognise it' as a hitherto undescribed 

 species. 



2. Nauclea synkorynes, Korthals Verli. Nat. Gesch. 160. A tree 

 30 to 40 feet high ; young branches thin, compressed, broad at the nodes, 

 pale- coloured (when dry). Leaves thinly coriaceous, oblong-ovate or ob- 

 long-obovate or narrowly elliptic, shortly rather abruptly acuminate, the 

 base cuneate : both surfaces quite glabrous ; main-nerves 7 or 8 pairs, 

 rather straight, ascending, thin but prominent on the lower surface; length 

 3 5 to 5 in. ; breadth 15 to 2*5 in. ; petiole '25 to '4 in., slightly winged 

 near the apex : stipules oblong-obovate, blunt, *5 in. long. Peduncles two 

 or three together, erect, 1*5 to 2*5 in. long, dilated near the minutely 

 bracteate apex. Capitules about 1 in. in diam. Calyx-tube short : its 

 lobes long, partly deciduous ; hirsute and sub-lanceolate in the lower 

 persistent part, glabrous and clavate in the upper deciduous part. 

 Corolla infundibuliform ; the tube glabrous, *25 in. long: its lobes 

 minutely glandular, pubescent outside, broadly ovate, blunt. Anthers 

 reaching to the top of the tube, linear-oblong, shortly apiculate, the base 

 sub-cordate. Capsules cuneiform, ridged, the apex villous, crowned by 

 the calyx-limb. Havil. in Journ. Linn. Soc. XXXIII. 60. 



Perak: King's Collector 10276. — Distrib. Borneo. 



3. Nauclea porpurascbns, Korth. Verb. Nat. Gesch. 158. A 

 small tree, the young branches brown when dry, purple when fresh. 

 Leaves thinly coriaceous, elliptic, elliptic-oblong, oblanceolate or oblong- 

 oblanceolate, acute or sub-acute, the base attenuate ; both surfaces 

 glabrous ; main-nerves 7 to 9 pairs, rather straight, spreading, promi- 

 nent on the lower surface, the midrib broad, length 45 to 85 in. ; 

 breadth 175 to 3 in. ; petiole '35 to *75 in. ; stipules ovate, acute, '75 

 in. long. Capitules 15 to 175 in. in diam., the peduncles 15 to 3 in. 

 long, solitary or in threes, with 2 large boat-shaped sub-persistent bracts 

 at the apex embracing the capitule. Calyx-tube short ; the lobes 5, 

 erect, linear, blunt, adpressed hairy. Corolla infundibuliform, glabrous ; 

 the lobes 5, short, broad, blunt, puberulous outside. Anthers 5, linear 

 with a minute apical appendage ; filaments shorter than the anthers. 

 Fruit ribbed; the apex depressed, densely villous, the remains of the 

 calyx-lobes short, hairy. Havil. in Journ. Linn. Soc. XXXIII. 58. 

 Koord. & Yalet. Bijdr. 8, p. 24. JV. Blancoi, Yidal Phan. Cum. Phil. 

 175. N. purpurea, Blume Bijdr. 1008 (not of Roxb.). 



Selangor: Ridley 7446. Pahang : Ridley 2189. Perak : Scorte- 

 chini 112; Ridley 9721 ; King's Collector 8603, 10276, 10641 ; Wray 195. 

 Andamans and Nicobars : Kurz ; Pram's Collector.^— Distrib. Java; 

 Borneo ; Celebes ; Philippines. 



