GORDONIA. 149 



G. hirtella, Ridley, in Journ. Straits Branch, Eoy. Asiatic 

 Soc, Xo. 73, 1916, p. 142, has foliage like that of G. taipingensis, 

 hut is widely different in its smaller flowers (only 2 cm. in dia- 

 meter) and smaller leaves (up to 14 cm. in length). The capsules 

 of G. taipingensis being unknown, the comparison cannot proceed 

 to them, but in G. hirtella as the drawing shows they are small 

 and the lobes after dehiscence are finger-like. The ovary narrows 

 gradually into the style. 



G. hirtella occurs on the Central Chain of mountains of the 

 Malay Peninsula from Gunong Batu Puteh in Perak to the west of 

 Tapah, where Wray got it at his lower camp (Wray No. 116) 

 through Bukit Kutu in Selangor at 3,000 feet, (Ridley 7350) to 

 Bukit Etam at the same height (Kelsall 18-48) on the Selangor- 

 Negri Sembilan boundary. Further there is a specimen which 

 appears to be it in the Singapore herbarium collected for Cantley 

 (Xo. 1296) at "Kandong" by which name is probably indicated 

 the Kendong in Negri Sembilan lying close to the foot of Gunong 

 Tampin. Cantlev's collector stated that the heartwood is black, 

 and the albumen dark in colour, and that it makes very durable 

 house posts. 



The flowers are creamy white. 



G. tonkimercsis, Pitard, in Lecompte, Flore generale de V- 

 Indo-Chine, i. 1910, p. 348, by the description appears to lie near 

 this place in the sequence. Its elliptic leaves attain 13 cm. in 

 length, and have small crenulations sometimes towards the 

 apex. They have a petiole up to 1 cm. in length, and the venation 

 is almost totally obscured by the coriaceousness of the leaf-blade. 

 Pitard gives a figure of the small capsule, which in shape is nor 

 unlike the unexpanded capsule of G. hirtella, but from his descrip- 

 tion is yet smaller by one third. 



The flowers are unknown. Abbe Bon collected it near Xinh 

 hinh in Tonkin, i.e.,, not far from the coast. 



G. Iuzonica, Vidal, Revis. PI. Yasc. Filip., 1886, p. 57. G. 

 fragrans, Merrill, in Philippine Journ. Science, i. Suppl. 1906, 

 p. 95. 



Fig. 8. leaf of 67. Iuzonica, reduced to I from Borden 809. 

 iR/ A. Soc, No. 76, 1917. 



