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in a very large part to Miquel. They are rare plants in her- 

 baria, which seem to have been seldom consulted of recent years. 

 There is consequently no concensus of modern opinion placing them 

 where they are : and though Otto Kuntze changed the names of 

 some, he was not working as a botanist but as a lexicographer. If 

 the Asiatic species of Haemocharis be transferred to Gordonia, the 

 genus is enlarged by the following : — 



II. vulcanica, 0. Kuntze, (sphalm. vulcania) being Korthals r 

 Laplacea vulcanica, described in 1840 or 1841 from Mt. Meropi 

 in Sumatra. 



H. niarginata, 0. Kuntze, first described in the same place as 

 Closascliima marginata, from Mt. Tirin and from near Martapura 

 in Borneo. 



II. ovalis, 0. Kuntze, first described along with the last two as 

 Closascliima ovalis from the forests of Melintang in Sumatra. 



H. buxifolia, Szyszylowicz, first described by Miquel as Lap- 

 lacea buxifolia in 1862 in his Sumatra, zijne Plant enwer eld p. 482, 

 from Pay a Kombo in Western Sumatra. 



II. aromatica, Szyszylowicz, first described by Miquel along" 

 with the last from Mangala in the Lampongs province, and also 

 from Priaman, in Sumatra. 



II. subintegerrima first described by Miquel along with the 

 last two, from Kobu-lahat in the Province of Palembang, Sumatra. 



II. integerrima, Koorders and Yaleton, first described by 

 Miquel in the Annates Musei botanici Lugduno-Batavi, iv. 1869^ 

 from Preanger in "West Java. 



II. amboinensis first described as Laplacea amboinensis by 

 Miquel in the same place as the last. 



TI. serrata, Koorders and Yaleton, described in Mededeelingen 

 van 'SLands Plantentuin, No. 16, 1896, p. 296. 



Of the genus Miquel remarks that it descends to low levels 

 (Sumatra*, zijne Plant enwer eld, p. 483), but not in Java. So too 

 does Gordonia descend to low levels in the Malay Peninsula, but 

 not in India and Ceylon. 



Size attained by Goedoni-as. 



The home of the American species of Gordonia is swampy 

 hollows among the pines of the Pine barrens along the sea coast. 

 The home of all the eastern species as far as recorded is sloping" 

 ground in dense rain forests and often on the crests of the ridges 

 in these forests. On such crests the trees are apt to be dwarfed by 

 conditions, and it is almost certain that foresters will soon show 

 that the botanists who have described the plants have by far under- 

 stated the sizes attained by many of the species. These are the 

 sizes so far recorded : — 



G. Welborni attains 50 meters or 160 feet. 



R. A. Soc, No. 76, 1917. 



