36 Geunsia. 



Miquel, Fl. Ind. bat. II, 887. ^ A tree, 4^8 M. high, 

 sometimes a large shrub, 2^3 M. high; branchlets, cymes 

 and petioles densely floccose; leaves wide-oblong or ovate, 

 entire or very minutely denticulated towards the apex, base 

 cuneate, rounded or somewhat cordate, abruptly decurrent, 

 apex subabruptly acuminate, pairs of nerves 7—9, upper 

 side hirsute with dense intermixed simple and stellate hairs, 

 with some scales and glands; nerves densely hairy, lower 

 side densely stellate-tomentose or floccose, somewhat glan- 

 dular, with some scales; 16^28 by 7,-14 cM.; petioles 

 1—3 cM.; apex 1—3 cM.; cymes 8—13 cM. ; peduncles 

 4V2— 6 cM.; bracts linear, 1 cM. long; calyx A — ^5-toothed, 

 hairy and glandular and with some scales, 0;1 — 0.2 cM.; 

 corolla violet-blue, glabrous, as somewhat hairy on the 

 lobes, 0.4—0.6 cM., 4— 5-lobed; stamens 4 — 5, exserted, 

 0.9—1 cM., anthers twice as long as wide, glandular on 

 both sides, especially on the backside; style 0.8 — 0.9 cM. 

 with 4 — 5-lobed stigma; ovary conical, densely glandular; 

 fruits red. 



Var. a pentamera H. J. Lam, nov. var. — flores 

 pentameri. 



Philippine Islands: Com. d. 1. Fl. for. no. 844, Daraga. 



New-Guinea: Gjellerup no. 416a, 416b, 416c, HoUandia, 

 20 M. in alt., with flowers and young fruits on Dec. 

 31th, 1910; (in the same inflorescence 4- and 5-merous 

 flowers: transition-form to var. (i) — Nyman no. 52, 

 Stephansort, flow, in Dec. 1898. — Weinland, A" 1891, 

 Kais.-Wilh.-land. in H. Ber. without nr. 



Var. (i tetramera H. J. Lam, nov. var. — flores tetramera. 



Philippine Islands: Cuming no. 1707. — Robinson, 

 in H. L.— B. sub. no. 913.300—92, Basilan — Elmer, 

 no. 13351, Cabadbaran (Mount Urdaneta), Agusan, Min- 

 danao, flow, in July 1912. 



New-Guinea: Ledermann no. 12612a. Felsspitze, 1400 M., 

 flow, on Aug. 4th, 1913,. id. no. 9490, Etappenberg, 850 M., 



