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them pendulous. Its leaves are rather small and the petioles for 



Fig. 4. Foliage and flower of G. pen- Fig. 5. Capsule of G. penangensis 

 ■angensis, reduced to ^, from Curtis nat. size, from Curtis 834. 

 834. 



the genus longish. A little hair persists at maturity on the hacks 

 of the blades near to the midrib. Its flowers are 3 cm. in diameter 

 and are described by Curtis as yellow and by Ridley as pinkish 

 yellow. The ovary narrows into a long style. Curtis got it as a 

 medium sized tree at 1,500 and 2,-100 feet in Penang island. 

 Pidley as a tall tree at about sea level at Seletar and at Chanchu- 

 kang in Singapore island. It is to be noted that Pitard's character 

 of blunt capsules for Nabiasodendron is not upheld by this species. 



G. Maingayi, King, in Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, lix, 1890, 

 p. 204, is extremely near to G. penangensis: and the ovary narrows 

 in the same way into the style. 



It was obtained first by Maingay who collected in Malacca, 

 and then by Scortechini and Wray who collected largely in the hills 

 near Taiping but did not record their localities. I have not seen 

 Maingay's plant. 



G. taipingensis, one of the new species here described, has 

 large leaves and large flowers. In outline the leaves agree with 

 those of G. penangensis. 



Fig. 6. Leaf and bud of G. taipingensis, reduced to $', from the type specimen 

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



