NEW AND RAKE MALAYAN PLANTS. 13 



Kunstler's specimen No. 2035 described as a tree 20 — 30 feet 

 tall lias a tomentose inflorescence. This is unusual though 

 the buds in all specimens are red tomentose. The Penang 

 plants have more distinct .nervules and reticulations and are 

 gland-dotted on both sides, and the branchlets are pustular, 

 while the inflorescence is much more copiously branched and 

 compact. In this it approaches G. sapindoides, Lindl. In the 

 Kew herbarium specimens have been tentatively named G. 

 chlorosperma, Spreng., the description of which is too incom- 

 plete to identify any species by, but as the type was obtained in 

 Java where this species does not seem to occur, it is probable 

 that that species is something else. 



G. sapindoides, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 6373; Hook. til. PI. Brit. 

 Ind. I. 501, was collected by Wallich in Penang in 1822. The 

 leaves are 5- to 7-foliolate with 11 or 12 pairs of fairly well 

 elevated nerves and conspicuous nervules and reticulations, the 

 branches are pustular, the inflorescence fascicled racemose 

 axillary short and red tomentose, the ovary is rufous tomentose 

 at the base. 



The plant collected by Maingay on Government Hill, 

 Penang, described in his field note as 30 feet high and as thick 

 as a man's thumb, is quite glabrous, and has a terminal inflo- 

 rescence ; so I refer it to G. malayana. Xo one has apparently 

 seen sapindoides since Wallich's time. 



G. macrophylla, Lindl. Wall. Cat. 6377, not of MiqueL 



A shrub 2 — 3 feet tall. Leaves always simple, thinly cori- 

 aceous, elliptic, narrowed slightly at the base, acuminate, fre- 

 quently not gland-dotted, pale beneath, nerves strongly elevate 

 beneath 10 pairs inarching shortly within the margin, reticul- 

 ations conspicuous, 8 in. long, 3.5 in. wide, petiole thick .2 — 1 in. 

 long. Panicles terminal, or 1 axillary in the uppermost leaf 

 axil, 2.5 in. long with very short branches .1 in. long. The 

 flowers very small in umbels at the end of the branches. The 

 sepals ovate not ciliate. The petals short oblong. Ovary 

 conic cylindric, glabrous on a very large disc. 



Penang. ( Wallich 6377 ; Curtis 89) . 



var. macrorachis, King. 



An erect shrub 2 to I: feet. Leaves lanceolate acuminate, 

 13 in. long, 3 — 7 in. wide, narrowed to the base. Panicle slen- 

 der elongate, 6 in. long, quite glabrous, base 1 in. wide, flori- 

 ferous part 6 in., branches distinct .1— A in. long with small 

 terminal umbels of flowers at the ends. Fruit round and 

 white. 



Penang. Waterfall and Pulau Butong (Curtis 89). 



A very distinct plant peculiar apparently to Penang. 



B. A. Soc, No. 75, 1917. 



