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G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malay Peninsula. [No. 1, 



definite, linear-oblong; style short, thick ; ovules many, 2-seriate, rai'ely 

 few or 1-seriate. Ripe carpels many, dry or berried, few- or many- 

 seeded. — Distrib. About HO species — many tropical Asiatic, a few 

 African species, and come Australian. 



A genus characterised by the usually large showy flowers with 

 imbricate Rosaceous corolla : — allied to the American genus Guatteria 

 Ruiz and Pavon (Gananga, Aubl.) and distinguished from it chiefly by 

 its multi-ovulate ovaries. 

 Flowers more than o in. in diam. 



Connective of anthers slightly produced at the 

 apex, compressed, oblique. 



Carpels stalked, oblong, rugulose 

 Carpels ovoid to sub-globular. 



Carpels 1*5 to 12 25 in. long, not tuber- 



culate, very pulpj r , tomentose 

 Carpels not more than 1 in. long, tuber- 

 cular, with little pulp. 



Carpels ovoid, oblique ; leaves woolly- 



tomentose beneath, even when old 

 Carpels globular or globular-ovoid, 

 haves glabrous when adult 

 Connective produced beyond the apex to about 

 half the length of the anther, flattened, ob- 

 liquely truncace; flower 1*5 in. in diam. 



nectives produced, those of the inner an- 

 thers truncate, those of the outer flattened 

 and oblique : flower 2 to 3 in. in diam. ; 

 leaves conspicuously stellate-tomeutose be- 

 th 

 tnectives of anthers slightly, or not at all, 

 produced at the truncate apex. 



Whole plant Btiffly hairy... 

 Whole plant softly hairy... 

 ( loni ■ i es of anthers produced into a broad 

 flattened sub-quadrate process; the outer 

 anthers changed into staminodes 

 Anthers oblong-cuneate, the connectives pro- 

 duced at the apex and always truncate. 

 Leaves pubescent beneath. 



Flowers in terminal umbellate ra- 



1. JJ. Larep. 



2. JJ. Hamiltoni. 



JJ. dulcis. 



JJ. Lobbiana. 



5. JJ. macrophylla. 



6. JJ. purpurea. 



7. 



JJ. hirsuta. 

 JJ. Gurtisii. 



9. JJ. Iiidleyi. 



cemes 

 Flow 



10. JJ. pauci-ovulata. 



in terminal umbels or in 



