382 G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula, [Ko. 3, 



place and several faint lateral lines, about 3 in. long and '6 to '75 in. 

 broad. Ventilago macrocarfa, King MSS. 



Ferak: common. Penang : Curtis, No. 1751. 



Var. puhescens, yoang branches tomentose ; leaves pubescent on 

 the under surface. 



Perak : Scortecbini, No. 2110 ; King's Collector, No. 7726. 



3. Smythea calpicarpa, Kurz Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, Vol. XLI^ 

 (for 1872) pt. 2, p. 301 ; For. Flora Burma 1, 264. Young branches 

 sparsely tawny-pubescent. Leaves lanceolate, acuminate, remotely 

 crenate- serrate ; both surfaces glabrous but for a few scanty hairs on the 

 5 or 6 pairs of ascending slightly curving lateral nerves ; length 2'25 

 to 2*75 in., breadth "8 to 1 in. ; petiole "15 in., tomentose. Fascicles 3- 

 to 10-flowered ; the flowers '15 in. in diam., pedicellate. Calyx hirsute 

 outside ; disc and ovary minutely tomentose. Fruit (unripe) coriaceous, 

 oblong, obliquely truncate at the apox, minutely tawny-tomentose. 



Andaman Islands: Heifer (Kew Distrib.), No. 2026/1; King's 

 Collectors. 



6. GoDANiA, Linn. 



Unarmed climbing shrubs. Leaves alternate, petiolate. Flowers 

 polygamous, in axillary or terminal spikes of cymes ; rachis often cirrhose. 

 Calyx superior, 5-fid ; tube short, obconic. Petals 5, inserted below the 

 margin of the disk, hooded. Stamens 5, enfolded by the petals. Disc 

 filling the calyx-tube, 5-angled or stellate. Ovary sunk in the diso, 

 3-celled ; style 3-cleft. Fruit inferior, coriaceous, crowned by the 

 persistent limb of the calyx, 3-winged or boldly 3-angled, dehiscent. 

 Distrib. About 50 species all tropical and mostly American. 



Leaves entire ; fruit triquetrous ... 1. G. Andamanica. 



Leaves crenate or serrate ; fruit winged. 

 Young branches glabrous ; disc-lobes ob- 

 long, truncate-emarginate at the apex ... 2. G. leptostachya. 

 Young branches rufous-tomentose ; disc- 

 lobes linear, acuminate ... ... S. G. Javanica. 



1. GouANiA Andamanica, King n. sp. Young branches ferru- 

 gineous-pubescent, the older almost glabrous and striate. Leaves oblong- 

 ovate, sub-acute, • entire, narrowed to the base ; both surfaces, but 

 especially the lower, sparsely adpressed-pubescent ; length 1-5 to 35 in., 

 breadth "75 to 2 in., petiole '4 to 6 in. Spikes 3 to 9 in. long, some- 

 times cirrhiferous near the base, slender, rufous-pubescent. Flowers 

 in distant 3-4-flowered cymes, sessile ; bracteoles numerous, linear- 

 lanceolate, rufous-pubescent. Disc glabrous, with 5 linear lobes. Styles 

 united near the base, ovary densely tomentose. Fruit oblong, boldly 



