224 Gmelina. 



hairs near the unequally bifid stigma; ovary glabrous; 

 drupe 1.3—1.8 cM. lon^; central cavity large. 



New-Guinea: Branderhorst no. 23. 



Distribution: tropical Australia (Benth. and v. Muell), 

 New-Guinea! 



Its affinity is with G. macrophylla; for difference see under 

 that species. 



Schumann in Schum. u. Hollrung, I.e., speaks of ant-hollows 

 at the base of the leaves, which should have an opening, but 

 we take them for nothing else but extra-floral nectaries, finding 

 them convex in the upper, and concave in the lower surface of 

 the leaf. (cf. Burck in Ann. d. Jard. bot. Btzg. X, 98). The 

 species as Bentham describes it, seems not to possess the large 

 glands at the base of the leaves; Schumann too, found the 

 leaves of australian specimina \yithout glands. As, however, 

 their number is much varying in 1 plant, we described no 

 varieties, concerning the presence and absence of the nectaries. 



8. G. palawensis H.J. Lam, nov. spec. — Arbor mediocra, 

 10^ — 12 M. alta, ramulis cylindricis, cortice griseo-brunneis, 

 multis lenticellis; folia membranacea vel subchartacea, late 

 ovata, basi plerumque decurrentia, interdum subrotundata, 

 apice acuminata, interdum obtusa; pagina superiore atro- 

 viridia, nitida, glabra, inferipre luteo-viridia, glabra, basi 

 nonnullis glandulis sub et supra nervis primis insidentibus 

 sufFulta; nervis utrinque 4—7; 8—23 cM. longa, 6—11 

 cM. lata, petiolo glabro 2V3— 8 cM. longo; inflorescentiee 

 longae, racemiformes, infra foliatae, nodis puberulis exceptis 

 glabrae, 10—15 cM. longae, 3—4 cM. latae, pedunculo 

 IV2— 5V2 cM. longo; bracteis foliaceis, 0.3—0.8 cM. longis, 

 0.1—0.3 cM. latis, glabris; pedicellis 0.3—1.2 cM. longis; 

 calyx glaber, integer, cupuliformis, glandulis magnis vestitus, 

 0.35—0.45 cM. longus; corolla parte inferiore excepta, 

 extus dense aureo-fulve pubescens, intus glaberrima, alba, 

 labio inferiore ccEruleo, maculis sulfureo-luteis ; lobis 5 

 subaequalibus, labii superioris bilobi 0.5 cM. longis, 0.25 

 cM. latis, labii inferioris trilobi lateralibus 0.65 by 0.3 cM., 



