232 Gr. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. 4, 



petiole "15 to *2 in. Stipules very minute. Floivers 1*5 in. in diam., 

 in short lateral panicles, the pedicels 1 in. or more in length. Sepals 

 ovate or lanceolate, usually reflexed in fruit. Petals larger than the 

 sepals. Anthers linear, deciduous, shorter than the filiform persistent 

 filaments. Styles longer than the stamens, cuneate to the apex, or the 

 apices free and spreading. Drupes ovoid, about - 5 in. long. Hook. fil. 

 Fl. Br. Ind. (excl. syn. 0. stipulacea, Colebr. MSS,). 0. nitida, Wall. 

 Cat. 2894 (not of Thunbg.) ; Planch, in Hook. Journ. Bot. V, 653 ; 

 Kurz For. Fl. Burin. I, 205. 0. squarrosa, Kurz Andaman Report 

 IV (not of Linn.). 0. andamanica, Kurz Andam. Rep. Ed. II, 33; 

 Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, for 1872, pt. 2, 295 ; For. Flora Burm. I, 205. 

 0. obtusata, DC. Wall. Cat. 2805, B. 



Andaman Islands. — Disteib. Burmah. 



Kurz distinguished his species 0. andamanica by the styles being 

 free and spreading at their apices, while the fruiting sepals are reflexed. 

 But I do not find that these two characters are at all constantly asso- 

 ciated. In other respects, Kurz's characters of 0. Walhchii, and 0. 

 andamanica are identical. 0. stipulacea, Colebr., reduced to this by 

 Mr. A. W. Bennett, in Fl. Br. Ind., appears to me to be distinct. 



2. GoMraiA, Schreb. 



Glabrous trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, shining, 2-stipulate. 

 Flowers yellow, in axillary or terminal racemes or umbels. Sepals 5, 

 coloured, persistent. Petals 5, imbricate. Disc thick, lobed. Stamens 

 10, inserted at the base of the disc, filaments very short, anthers open- 

 ing by terminal pores. Ovary deeply 5-6-lobed, lobes 1-celled ; styles 

 connate, stigma simple ; ovules solitary in each cell, erect. Drupes 5 or 

 fewer, seated on a broad disc, 1-seeded. Seed erect, exalbuminous. — 

 Distiub. Chiefly tropical South American : a few in Asia and Africa. 

 Species about 80. 



Flowers in diffuse panicles ... ... 1. G. sumatrana. 



Flowers in corymbs ... ... ... 2. G. Hookeri. 



1. Gom phi A sumatrana, Jack in Mai. Misc. No. 5,' p. 29 ; Hook. 

 Bot. Misc. II., 77. A tree 22 to 40 feet high ; young branches 

 slender, pale. Leaves coriaceous, narrowly elliptic-oblong, tapering to 

 each end, the edges serrulate or sub-entire ; main nerves numerous, 

 sub-horizontal, very faint, as are the reticulations ; intramsrginal nerves 

 from base to apex, two or three, rather distinct when dry ; length 3'5 

 to 7 in., breadth 1 - 15 to 2'25 in., petiole '15 in. Panicles terminal, 

 longer than the leaves, branching. Flowers numerous, *35 in. in diam. 

 Sepals narrowly ovate, veined. Petals larger than the sepals, broad, 

 retuse and inflexed at the apex. Anthers linear, much longer than 



