— Gmelina. | _  VERBENACER. 265 
tropical forests, but rarely entering alluvium, up to 3,000 ft. elevation.—Fl. 
March; Fr. Apr.-May.—l.—SS.=Metam. SiS. CaS., ete. 
Remarxs.—Wood white, light, resembling mutchi wood. O'=35pd. Used 
often for making canoes and boats, also for house-posts, planks, clogs, and for 
ing i Recommended for furniture. 
2. G, Asiatica, L.; Bedd. Sylv. Madr. 172; Brand. For. Fl. 
365.—A leaf-shedding tree (25—30+3—6+1—3), with a very 
short trunk and very elongate spreading scandent branches often 
armed with opposite, straight, spine-like, abortive branchlets, the 
softer parts villous-pubescent; leaves from elliptical to ovate and 
elliptically ovate, acute at the base, on a slender pubescent petiole | 
3-1 in. long, shortly acuminate, acute or bluntish, 2-3 in. long, 
firmly membranous, entire, villous-pubescent on both sides, glabres- 
cent above; flowers showy, uniformly yellow, on short braeted 
pedicels, forming a rather short, bracted, densely pubescent raceme 
at the end of the branchlets or on short axillary shoots; bracts 
deciduous after flowering, leafy, lanceolate, pubescent ; calyx about 
3 lin. long, pubescent, truncate, minutely 4-toothed; corolla funnel- 
bell-shaped, 4-lobed, the lobes ovate-triangular, almost equal, the 
upper one reflexed ; drupes globular or nearly so, the size of a cherry, 
smooth and glossy, yellow. 
-—Not unfrequent along choungs in the swamp forests of the Sittang 
valley and near Rangoon.—Fl. Ma SS.=All. Lat. p. 
3. G. Hystrix, Schult—A large scandent shrub, the younger 
branchlets hispid-pubescent, armed with short, opposite, axilla 
enlarging in fruit. Corolla funnel- to salver-shaped, with a longer 
er shorter tube, the limb unequal and almost 2-lipped, 5-cleft. 
Stamens 4, nearly didynamous, inserted in the tube and long- 
