198 D. Prain — Some new Indian Plants. [No. 5, 



obovate, dark-brown when dry, glabrous, apex rounded with an abrupt acumen, 

 base wide-cuneate, margin entire; 8 in. long, 35 in. across, subcoriaceous. Flowers 

 in short axillary or terminal cymes. Fruitlsirge '5 in. across, 3-celled, S-seededj 

 Seeds brown, '3 in. long, somewhat curved. 



Nearly related to G. monosperma, but with larger leaves, a different habit and a 

 3-celled, 3-seeded fruit. 



8. GYMNOSPORIA W. &. A. 



2. G-TMNOSPORIA NEGLECTA Wall 



This species should be deleted. It is based originally on Celastrus 

 neglectus Wall. Cat. 4341, which is Oelastrus stylosa. 



Lawson in the Flora of British India has associated Gelastrus ? at- 

 teanata Wall. Oat. 4319 with the preceding number. The material at 

 Calcutta is not very good, bub so far as it goes, it does not admit of this 

 namber being distinguished from Gelastrtis oxyphylla Wall. Cat. 4312 

 which is treated by Lawson as the basis of Gymnosporia acuminata Hook 

 f. Moreover Lawson brings under 0. neglecta the plant issued by 

 Wallich as ?Baehotrys acuminata Wall. Cat. 2821. This last, which ap- 

 pears to be the true basis of 0. acuminata Hook, f., is certainly identical 

 with Wall. Cat. 4312. 



76. Gymnosporia sikkimensis Prain; leaves 5*7 in. by 2*25-3 in., 

 ovate obtuse, very obscurely serrate, thinly coriaceous, glabrous. 



SiKKiM: Tista Valley, Gamble n4iS\ Ambiokh, Frain's Collect or \ 



A small tree ; branches unarmed, stoutish, dark, glabrous. Mowers small, in 

 numerous clustered cymes from old leaf -scars ; peduncles, 175 in. long, cymes 2 in. 

 across. Sepals 5, short, obtuse, concave, puberulous, externally corrugate. Petals 5, 

 wide-oblong, obtuse, thrice as long as sepals. Stamens 5, filaments slender incurved, 

 attached outside disk anthers short, broad, 2-oelled. Disk thick fleshy, corrugated. 

 Styles short, coherent with vertical grooves; stigmas slightly recurved. Fruit 

 turbinate, 3-celled, '5 in. long, -3 in. across. 



7o. Gymnosporia Curtisii King in Journ. As, Soc. Beng., Ixv., 2. 

 35B • leaves 4-6 in. by 225-3 in. ovate-elliptic subacute, distantly shal- 

 lowly crenate, coriaceous, glabrous. 



Kedah ; Curtis ! 



A scandent shrub ; young branches stoutish, grey, glabrous. Flowers small, in 

 clustered cymes from old leaf- scars ; peduncles S-'Y in. long. Sepals 5, semiorbi. 

 cular the edges with a few short thick cilia. Petals 5, oblong, obtuse, much longer 

 than sepals. Stamens 5, filaments slender, incurved, attached outside disk ; anthers 

 small suborbicular. Disk thick, fleshy, entire. Style short clavate. Fruit widely 

 ovoid, almost globular, 3-angled, 3-valved. Seeds 1, or often 2 in each cell. 



13. SIPHONODON Griff. 



1. SiPHONODON OELASTRINEUS Griff. 



