152 GOEDONTA. 



oblanceolate, dentate, coriaceous, and so small as to be only 5 to 

 10 cm. long by 1.5 to 3.5 cm broad. The dentation removes 

 the species from the neighbourhood of the small leaved Malayan 

 species with which this enumeration will end. At the same time 

 the petiole for the smallness of the blade is rather long (up to 8 

 mm.). The flowers are yellowish, and apparently about 3 cm. 

 across. The ovary is of three loculi only, and is contracted into 

 the style. The capsule is represented by Pitard as oblique. If 

 this curious condition is at all constant it is very interesting, and a 

 relationship of some closeness to 67. anomala is suggested thereby. 



G. Balansae was collected in the forests of Mount Bavi in 

 Tonkin near to the village of Sougi by the collector Balansa. 



G. axillaris, D. Dietrich, Syn. Plant, iv. 1850, p. 863: Szyszy- 

 lowicz in Engl. Pflanzenfam. iii. Xo. 6, 1893, p. 185. G. anomala, 

 Sprengel, Systema, iii. 1826, p. 126 : Bentham, Flora Hongkong., 

 1861, p. 29: Forbes and Hemsley in Jonrn. Linn. Soc. Lond. Bot. 

 xxxiii. 1886, p. 80. G. Lessertii, Szyszylowicz in Engl. Pflanzen- 

 fam. iii. ~No. 6, 1893, p. 185. Camellia axillaris, (Eoxburgh very 

 doubtfully, E. Brown more probably, through) Ker in Bot. Register, 

 1819, plate 349, and Sims, Bot. Mag., 1819, plate 2047. Polyspora 

 axillaris, Sweet, Hort. Brit. ed. i. 1826, p. 61 : Don, Diet. Gard. 

 and Bot. i, 1831, p. 574: Hooker in Bot. Mag. 1843, plate 4019. 



This species with elliptic toothed leaves, and a short but dis- 

 tinct petiole, has an ovary which may be made of four or of five 

 carpels. In this perhaps is an indication of affinity to G. Balansae. 

 Its flowers are white, and large (6 to 7 cm. in diameter: or accord- 

 ing to the Gardener's Chronicle, lxi. p. 250, the flowers recently 

 produced at Kew, 12 cm.). The ovary contracts to the style. 



Bentham supposed the plant confined to the island of Hong- 

 kong, as he was unable to ascertain any record of its occurrence 

 on the mainland of China. 



Matsumura and Hayata, have recorded it from two places in 

 the extreme north of Formosa and from one very near the middle 

 of the island. The old errors of placing its home in Penang should 

 have been forgotten by now, but persist; and Singapore is added 

 •equally incorrectly. 



G. concentricicatrix, a new species from the lowlands be- 

 tween the Din dings and Malacca, is the first of two in which the 

 broadest part of the leaf is very markedly towards the apex. It 

 occurs as a big tree in the Selangor forests with a clean' straight 

 trunk marked by concentric rings which it is hoped to figure later. 



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