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leaves only three inches long- and 1^ wide, but I have no 

 reason to suppose that they belong to another species. 

 Two other species of this genus are recorded. G. Miquelianus 

 Teysm, and G.Bancanus, of which latter however I can find no de- 

 scription and it is probably the same thing. The first of these is 

 well figured in Miquel's Ann. Lugd. Bat. vol. 1 . PL 4. It is a native 

 of Java, and is certainly very closely allied to our species, but 

 the leaves are rather larger, the flower twice as large, and the 

 fruit instead of being- brown, rough and hard is larger, smooth 

 and orange coloured. It is said to supply a kind of Garu wood. 

 Triomma Malaccensis Hook. fil. This remarkable tree seems 

 never to have been completely described, the flowers having 

 been hitherto practically unknown. A tree in the Botanic 

 Gardens however flowered in November, and I therefore give 

 a complete description of it :■ — 



A tree about GO feet tall with grey bark flaking from below, 

 so that the stem is very rough. Leaves alternate exstipulate 

 about six inches long, petiole swollen at the base, leaflets 7, 

 petiolules ^ inch long, blade lanceolate acuminate, bases unequal, 

 2-|-3 inches long, coriaceous dark shining green above with 

 paler nerves, pale green beneath, panicles subterminal shorter 

 than the leaves, viscid pubescent branches shorter. Flowers |- 

 inch across green, scented like cowslips. Bracts minute ovate, 

 pedicels J inch or a little longer viscid pubescent nodding. 

 Sepals 5 ovate lanceolate pubescent. Petals longer lanceolate 

 whitish green minutely pubescent. Disc narrow five lobed. 

 Stamens very short 5 from within the disc, filaments short free, 

 anthers dorsifixed small ovoid chestnut. Pistil trigonous green. 

 Stigma 3 lobed yellow. Fruit capsular of three flat ovate cor- 

 iaceous woody valves two inches long and as wide. Seed one in 

 each cell -J an inch long, surrounded by a thin brown wing ovate 

 cordate in outline as large as the valve. Singapore, Malacca 

 and Sumatra. 



This tree is remarkable in the order fur its really capsular 

 fruit and thin large-winged fruit seed and unlike nearly all other 

 species it has only five stamens, most Burseracece having ten. 

 As mentioned in Journ. As. Soc, S. Br., Vol. 34, p. 91, when cut 

 it exudes a very aromatic resin. 



