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Ord. ehizophorace^. 



Suboed. I. LEGNOTIDE^l. 



1. GYNOTBOCHES, Blume. 



aYNOTROCHES, Blume, Bijdr. p. 218, & Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. p. 126. 

 • Dryptopetalum, Arn. in Ann. Nat. Hist. 1, p. 372. 



1. Gynotroches reticulata, Sp. Nov. 



G. ramtdis novellis stipulisque pube minutissima cinereis; folds oblongis 

 acumine brevi obtusissimo terminatis utrinque reticularis, venis promi- 

 nulis scabriuseulis ; pedicellis petiolum adcequcmtibus ; stigmate bre- 

 vissim e tri-quadriradia to . 



Hab. Singapore. 



This is the same as No. 8457 of Wallich's Catalogue, from Penang 

 and Singapore, and is perhaps not specifically distinct from 0. Drypto- 

 petalum, Blume {Dryptopetalum coriaceum, Arn.), of which I have 

 only an imperfect specimen from Griffith's Malacca collection for 

 comparison. But in our plant the young branches, stipules, &c, are 

 minutely cinereous-puberulent ; the oblong leaves have a shorter and 

 very blunt acumination, are more reticulated on both sides, duller, and 

 with the prominent veins and veinlets scabrous to the touch; the 

 pedicels (about 3 lines long, very numerous in a dense fascicle) as 

 long as the petiole. The style, moreover, is terminated by a depressed 

 slightly four-lobed, or sometimes three-lobed stigma; the lobes extremely 



