882 G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. 3, 



place and several faint lateral lines, about 3 in. long and '5 to "75 in. 

 broad. Ventilago macrocarpa, King MSS. 



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



Var. pubescens, young branches tomentose ; leaves pubescent on 

 the under surface. 



Perak : Scortechini, 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 apex, minutely tawnyrtomentose. 



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

 Collectors. , . 



5. Gouania, Linn. 



Unarmed climbing shrubs. Leaves alternate, petiolate. Flowers- 

 polygamous, in axillary or terminal spike.9 of cymes ; rachis often cirrhose.- 

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

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

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

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

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

 Distrib. About 50 species all tropical and mostly American. 



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



Leaves crenate or serrate ; fruit winged. 

 Toung branches glabrous ; disc-lobes ob- 

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

 Toung branches rufous-tomentose ; disc- 

 lobes linear, acuminate ... 3. G. Javaniea. 

 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 3'5 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. Floicers 

 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 



