148 GOKDONIA. 



Gordonia taipingensis, Arbor, 40- vel 50-pedalis, cortice- 

 avellaneo-uinbrina. Eamuli nltimi 3 mm. crassn fusco-avellanei 

 Folia elliptica ad elliptico-obovata, basi attenuata, apice acuminata, 

 pergamentacea, margine in superiori parte solum inconspicue crenu- 

 lata, veins lateralibus supra atque infra visibilibus, glaberrima, ad 

 29 cm. longa, ad 7 cm. lata: petiolns crassus, ad 2 cm. longus. 

 Flores majnsculi diametro 6 cm., lutescentes. Sepala dense sericea, 

 maxima 15 mm. longa. Petala dense sericea, ad 3 cm. longa. An- 

 therae nnmerosissima ', versatiles, fere 2 mm. longae : filamenta basi 

 pubescentia, 7 — 9 mm. longa, omnia discreta in petalis conjunctis 

 inserta. Ovarium dense sericeum apice in stylo augustatum, vix 

 1 cm. longum stylo 2 mm. et stigmatis 2 mm. longis inelusis. 

 Capsula ignota. 



Perak. In monte Taiping hill dicto ad 3,500 ped. alt., cum 

 floribus mense Februario collegerunt Mohamed PlanirT et Mohamed 

 Xur, sub numero 2359. 



Q. obtusa, ^YaUic■]l J Cat, Lith. 1832, Xo. 1459, name only; 

 Wight, Illnstr. 1840, i. p. 99: Dyer in Hooker fil. Flora Brit. 

 India, i. 1875, p. 291: Gamble, Indian Timbers, p. 67: Talbot. 

 Forest Flora Bombay, i. 1909, p. 106 : Gamble, Flora Madras 

 Pres., i. 1915, p. 79. G. outusifolia, Wight, loc. cit. 



This is clearly near to G Maingayi, as Sir William Thiselton- 

 Dyer pointed out, The flowers are larger and the leaves harsher. 

 .The colour of the flowers is creamy white and their diameter about 

 7.5 cm. The ovary is represented as narrowing into the style, and 

 the style as being tubular almost to the top of the ovary. Some- 

 times the stigma is 4-lobed. It is a common tree in the little 

 patches of forests which occur in the ravines of the Xilgiri hills 

 chiefly on the eastern side, between 5,000 and 7,000 feet. From 

 the Xilgiri hills it extends southwards and reaches lower levels on 

 the damp western face of the Tra van core slopes : also it reaches 

 the Bababuden hills in Mysore. 



Wight gave the name G. parvifolia to a plant which he obtain- 

 ed in Courtallum with smaller leaves and their margins almost 

 toothless, but later botanists who have had a right to an opinion, 

 have considered it as not distinct from G. obtusa. 



Fig. 7, Capsule of G. hirtella, 



slightly reduced, from Ridley 



7350. 



Jour. Straits Branch 



