Illigera.] ltiii. cOMBEBTACEiE. (0. B. Clarke.) 461 



Btjema (Karens); Kurs:. Mikir Hills, Khasia; Simons. Tenasseeim; Heifer 

 (Kew Distrib. No. 4341) partly. Malacca, Maingay No. 649, 650. 



Stem striate, nearly glabrous. Petiole 2-5 in. ; petiolules ^-1 in. ; leaflets elliptic- 

 lanceolate, those from the lo^wer stem broader sometimes nearly orbicular. Cymes 

 often 6-8 in. ; bracteoles very small, ovate, and as the calyx without minutely pubes- 

 cent. Fruit 1 in. long, the wings brown nearly glabrous with horizontal striations. 

 — If Meissner's species are united as proposed by Mr. Kurz, this must be regarded as 

 a variety. 



3. X. Kbasiana, C. B. Clarke ; leaflets glabrous -with tufts of long yel- 

 low hairs in the nerve-axils beneath and sometimes minutely setose on the 

 midrib on the upper surface, staminodes not petaloid concave deeply emarginate, 

 fcuit Sj in. wide (not quite ripe) 2-winged. 



Khasia ; Cfriffith (Kew Distrib. No. 4340) ; Churra, alt. 3000-4000 ft., J. D. H. ^ 

 T. Thomson; Likinsow, 2500-3000 ft., C. B. Clarke. 



Stem striate, nearly glabrous. Petiole 2-5 in. ; petiolules |-1 in. ; leaflets 

 elliptic-lanceolate (no lower leaves preserved). Cymes often 6-10 in. ; bracteoles 

 very small, ovate, and as the calyx without minutely pubescent. Fruit 1 in. long and 

 more, the wings brown nearly glabrous with horizontal striations. 



DOTTBTFUL SPECIES. 



I. OBTUSA, Mdssn. in DC. Prodr. xv. pt. i. 251 founded on Wight's Herb. No. 

 394 is said to have drupes 5 lines long 4 lines thick, and therefore cannot belong to 

 the genus Illigera as at present defined. There is no example in the Kew Herbarium 

 of any Illigera from the Deccan Peninsula. 



8. GYRO CARPUS, Jacq. 



A tall tree. Leaves alternate, long petioled, large, entire or lobed, clustered 

 towards the ends of the branches. Flmoers small, unisexual, very numerous, 

 clustered in large branched cymes without bracts. Mate flowers very numer- 

 ous; calyx 4-7-partite; petals 0; stamens 4-7, inserted at the base of the 

 calyx with as many alternate clavate glands, anthers dehiscing by valves ; 

 ovary 0. Female or hermaphrodite flowers few ; calyx-tube adherent to the 

 ovary, limb 2-partite, persistent, enlarging in fruit ; petals and stamens ; 

 ovary l-celled ; style 0, stigma sessile ; ovule solitary pendulous from the apex 

 of the cell. Md bony, crowned by the elongate spathulate coriaceous calyx- 

 lobes. Seed with convolute cotyledons. 



1. G. Jacquini, Soxb. Styrt. Beng. 11, Cor. PI. t. 1, Fl. Ind, i. 445 ; 

 Lamk. III. t. 850 ; Bedd. Fl Sylv. t. 196 ; Kurz For. Fl. Brit. Burma i. 470. 

 G. asiatious, Willd. Sp. PI. iv. 982 ; Wall. Cat. 968 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 

 978 ; BC. Prodr. xv. pt. i. 248. G. americanus, Jacq. PI. Amer. t. 178. G. 

 acuminatus, Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. pt. i. 248. G. sphenopterus and G. 

 rugosus, JB. Br. Prodr. 405. 



Deccan Peninsula, alt. 0-1000 ft., frequent. Bengal, rare. Malay Peninsula, 

 frequent. — Disteib. The tropics of the whole world near the sea. 



Attains 60-80 ft. (Kurz). Leaves (of full-grown trees) 4-5 in. and as broad, 

 broadly ovate, acuminate, entire, generally glabrous, those of young plants often very 

 large deeply lobed and more or less pubescent. Peduncles 1-3 in., in the upper axils. 

 Drupes ^-f in., ovoid ; calyx-lobes 2-3 in. 



