GORDONIA. 



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Fig. 12. A leaf of G . singaporiana 

 reduced to i. 



Fig, 13. A capsule of G. singaporiana 

 aud a seed from life, nat. size. 



G. dipterosperma, Kurz, in Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, xlv, 

 1876, p. 119 : G. excelsa var. pubescens, D} r er in Hooker fil., Flora 

 Brit. India, i. 1873, p. 291: Gordonia sp., Griffith, Posthumous- 

 papers, ii. p. 99 and iii, p. 200: Dipterosperma sp., Griffith, 

 Notulae, iv. 1854, p. 564. 



It appears right to separate this from G. excelsa, as Kurz did. 

 Kurz wrote " Blume's tree differs so much from the above in the 

 long peduncles, large hirsute capsules, and in the texture and pubes- 

 cence of the leaves, that it is difficult to understand how it could 

 have come to be identified with the Khasi and Sikkim tree." 

 Ridley (in this Journal No. 73, p. 142) has called attention to the 

 large pustules from which the hairs spring on the backs of the 

 leaves. It was collected first by Griffith at Dewangiri where he 

 entered what is now Bhutan, and then afterwards in the Khasi 

 hills by Kurz. Mr. C. C. Calder, Curator of the Herbarium of the 

 Royal Botanic Gardens, Calcutta, has been so good as to refer to all 

 the material that he possesses and to tell me that it has been ob- 

 tained in additional localities in British Sikkim. 



G. excelsa, Blume, Bijdragen, iii. 1826, p. 130 : Koorders and 

 Valeton in Mededeelingen 'SLands Plantentuin, No. 16, 1896, p. 

 289 : Koorders, Excursionsnora von Java, ii. 1912, p. 608 : Koor- 

 ders-Schumacher, Systemat. Verzeichnis, fam. 180, p. 35. An- 

 theeischima excelsa, Korthals, Verh. Nat. Gesch. 1839-42, 138, t. 27. 



Koorders points out that the margin of the leaves varies con- 

 siderably, being toothed sometimes and sometimes not toothed. 

 The flowers, Ridley points out, are twice as large as those of G. 

 singaporiana. Koorders describes the appearance of the tree as 

 characteristic, the young stem up to 50 cm. in diameter having a 

 peculiar thin sloughing " brown-red-grey " bark. G. excelsa was 

 obtained by Blume in the mountains of Western Java; it was ob- 

 tained by Koorders on Gunong Salak in Western Java and in the 

 Pantjur-Idjen region of East Java. 



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



