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ed to the base, 3 to 6 inches long 1-2 inches wide, nerves 

 fine ascending numerous petiole ^ inch long. Male 

 flowers in umbels of 4 to 10, pedicels T X o inch long, 

 flowers T V inch long, on the tips of branches. Sepals or- 

 bicular fleshy concave 4. Petals longer lanceolate oblong 

 subobtuse. Stamens about 20, forming a compact mass. 

 Filaments very short, anther cells 4 broad with a thick 

 connective, no pistil. Female flowers in umbels of four 

 on the termination of branches, larger than the males, 

 pedicels short thick ^ inch long. Sepals orbicular con- 

 cave rounded. Petals oblong lanceolate acute, longer. 

 Ovary ovoid, stigma large papillose convex. Staminodes 

 about 8, resembling the stamens. Fruit fleshy an inch 

 through oblong, globose, crowned with the thick apiculus 

 bearing the pustular stigma. 



Singapore: Changi (Ridlev 5005, 3611, 1967, 

 4644), Sungei Morai (4643), Tanjong Sukopek (3992) ; 

 Johor: Gunong Pulai (Ridley) ; Pahang: near Pekan 

 (Ridley) ; Malacca: Nvalas (Derry), Bukit Bruang 

 (Ridlev 4645) ; Penang Waterfall: Stone Quarry (Curtis 

 2412): Bindings: Pangkor (Ridlev 7969): Lankawi: 

 Kwah (Curtis) : Carimon Islands (Ridley 7111). 



" Kandis Jantan." This is a very distinct plant 

 from the common Kandis. and is doubtless the plant 

 referred to by King as the specimens with lanceolate 

 acuminate leaves (p. 165). The typical leaves of this 

 plant are narrow stiff and finely veined but it has also in 

 some specimens which I cannot separate distinctly ovate 

 leaves much broader. I find however narrow leaves as well 

 on all or nearly all the broad leaved specimens. The 

 Lankawi plant has the foliage of the narrow leaved form, 

 but as the flowers, male, are very much larger it may be 

 a distinct variety. This plant is undoubtedly Pierre's 

 G. nigrolineata and I think also Anderson's plant in the 

 Fl. Brit. Ind. though I have not seen the type. King's 

 nigrolineata may be this partly but nearly all the speci- 

 mens distributed under this name by him belong to a 

 very distinct plant. 



R. A. Soc, No. 54, 1909. 



