Gordonia. 



By I. H. Buekill. 



Fig. 1. The flower of Gordonia singaporiana, Wall., viewed horizontally, 

 and enlarged by one third. 



An enquiry upon a Gordonia undertaken for the Forest De- 

 partment, led into such confused literature, that I have thought it 

 well to draw together the following notes upon the genus in the 

 hope that by publishing them, I may leave it a little more open to 

 investigation. However but for Mr. Bidley's correction of some 

 of the nomenclature in the Journal for 1916, I could not have done 

 even this. 



The genus is one of the Ternstroemiaceae, and the relationship 

 to Camellia and Thea is fairly well suggested by the figure above. 



Jour. Straits Branch R. A. Soc, No. 76, 1917. 



