1896.] G. King -Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Pemnsula. 495 



convex and strong ; main nerves 24 to 36 pairs, spreading, only slightly 

 curved, projecting on the lower surface, depressed on the upper ; length 

 7 to 15 in., breadth 3-5 to 5-5 in.; petiole 1-25 to 2*5 in., tomentose, 

 dilated at the base. Panicles of male flowers axillary, slender, shorter 

 than the leaves, rusty stellate-tomentose ; the branches only a few inches 

 long, spreading, spicate, bearing the flowers in small crowded sessile 

 glomeruli. Flowers about '05 in. diam., sessile. Calyx thick, cupular, 

 cut into 4s broad sub-acute concave ovate-mtund segments, rusty- 

 tomentose outside. Petals 4, a little exceeding the calyx, thin, pale, 

 glabrous^ elliptic-ovate, concave. Stamens 4 or 8 in two rows ; 

 filaments thickly subulate, anthers short ; disc crenate, fleshy. Panicle 

 of female flowers shorter and less branched than that of the males. 

 Drupe ovoid, slightly oblique, glabrous, '35 in. l(»ng. 0. macrophyUa, 

 Hook, fil Fl. Br. Ind. IT, 41 ; Engler ia DC. Mon. Phan. IV, 316 ; 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, pt. 2, p. 637. 



Malacca : Grriffith, No. 11 09 ; Maingay, No. 484/2. Singapore : 

 T. Anderson, No. 71. Perak : Wray, No. 2575; King's Collector, 

 No. 5327, 6528, 6541 and 7292.— Distrib. Sumatra, Borneo, Bangka. 



This species was first named as a Gampnosperma by Marchand 

 in 1869, and he based his description of it on Griffith's Malacca specimen 

 No. 1109. The plant had previously (1850) been named Buchanania 

 macrophyUa by Blume in Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. I, 185. Had Marchand 

 known this, he ought to have named it Gampnosperma macrophyUa 

 instead of G. Griffithii, It is easily recognised by its sessile glomeru- 

 late flowers ; although its fruit closely resembles that of the plant which 

 is accepted as O". Griffithii both by Sir Joseph Hooker and by Dr. 

 Engler, but which is here named G. Wallichii. 



2. Gampnosperma auriculata, Hook. fil. in Fl. Br. Ind. II, 41. 

 A tall shrubby tree : young branches as thick as a swan's quill, glabrous, 

 polished, lenticellate. Leaves thinly coriaceous, obovate-oblong or ob- 

 lanceolate-oblong, the apex rounded sometimes retuse or emarginate, 

 tapered gradually in the lower two-thirds and continued down the 

 petiole as a wing to its slightly auricled base ; both surfaces glabrous, 

 minutely reticulate ; main nerves 9 to 18 pairs, oblique, not prominent on 

 either surface ; length 4 to 9 in., breadth 1*75 to 3 in. ; petiole below the 

 auricles only ' 1 or '2 in., glabrous. Panicles of male flowers 10 to 14 in. 

 long, axillary, covered with scurfy minute stellate rusty toraentum ; the 

 branches slender and with numerous many-flowered branclilets. Fhnvers 

 pedicellate, 15 in. in diam. when expanded. Galyx cupular, puberulous 

 outside, with 4 broadly triangular segments. Petals 4, twice as lonor as 

 the calyx-teeth, elliptic, obtuse, deflexed. Stamens 8; four longer than 

 the others, spreading and longer than the petals, the other 4 shorter. Disc 



