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stigmatibus 5 radiatis, capsulis oblongis pentagonis pilosi- 

 usculis. 



Hab. — Forests near the Elephant plains. Flowers in 

 October. 



Descr. — A large tree. Branchlets round, glabrous, with the leaves 

 crowded at their extremities. Leaves nearly quite sessile, 3-3£ 

 inches long, 2 inches broad. Flowers white, 2 inches in diameter. 

 Capsule woody, 15 lines long, 5-celled, with a loculicidal dehiscence. 

 Seeds unknown. 



Obs. — Near G. Ceylanica, R. W., from which it is princi- 

 pally distinguished by its glabrous, not pilose, branchlets, 

 its very differently shaped leaves, which are broadest, not nar- 

 rowest, at the base, and more sessile and larger flowers. In 

 some of my specimens of G. Ceylanica there is a slight ap- 

 pearance of serratures on some of the leaves, thus approach- 

 ing it to the Neilgherry Gordonia obtusa, which however, is a 

 very distinct species. 



ORD. NAT. FLACOURTIACE.E. 

 ROUMIA, Poit. 



1. Roumea hebecarpa, Gardn. 



R. arborea inermis, foliis petiolatis ovato-oblongis vel ob- 

 longo-lanceolatis acuminatis basi obtusis integris vel dentato- 

 serratis penniveniis supra nitidis pubescentibus subtus palli- 

 dis tomentosis, pedicellis axillaribus paucis, baccis globosis 

 pubescentibus. 



Hab. — Rare in the jungles of the Central Province, as at 

 Cundasalle. Flowers in June. 



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