156 GOEDONIA. 



G. zeylanica, Wight, Illustr., i. 1840, 99 : Thwaites, Enum. 

 Florae Zeylan. 1864, p. 40 : Dyer in Hooker fil., Flora Brit. India, 

 i. 1873, p. 291: Trimen, Handbook Flora Ceylon, i. 1893, p. 110. 



The almost sessile oval or oblong lanceolate leaves of this 

 species distinctly suggest G. singaporiana, but they are shorter, 

 firmer and the margins are markedly revolute often. Its white 

 flowers are large, being 7.5 cm. in diameter. The capsules are 

 rather over 3 cm. long. It occurs in many places about the moun- 

 tains in the centre of Ceylon between 4,000 and 7,000 feet. 



67. elliptica, Gardner, in Calcutta, Journ. Nat. Hist., vii. 1846, 

 p. 448, is regarded by Trimen as a variety of G. zeylanica with 

 shorter leaves and larger flowers. It occurs at one place in the 

 same region as G. zeylanica. 



G. speciosa, Clwisy in Memoires de la Societe Physique de 

 Geneve, xiv. 1855, p. 52 : ' Thwaites, Enum. Florae Zevlan., 1864, 

 p. 40: Dyer in Hooker fil., Flora Brit. India, i. 1873, p. 292: 

 Trimen, Handbook Flora Ceylon, i. 1895, p. 111. Carria speciosa, 

 .Gardner in Calcutta Journ. Xat. Hist., vii, 1846, p. 7. 



By its large deep crimson flowers this is a most outstanding 

 species. Its long ovate leaves are almost sessile or even sessile: 

 they are entire and the margin often revolute. The flowers are 

 nearly 10 cm. in diameter, and its capsules nearly 5 cm. long. The 

 stamens are united into five groups. 



It formerly occurred gregariously in the forest above Eam- 

 bodde in Ceylon at about 4,000 feet, where clearing has been ex- 

 tensive and made it very rare. 



G. Lobbii, Hooker fil., in Trans. Linn. Soc. London, xxiii, 

 1860, p. 162, may be taken conveniently as the first of the last 

 group of the genus, a group made of species with relatively small 

 leaves whose margins are even and whose general facies suggests 

 ability to withstand adverse conditions. It is a small or medium 

 sized tree, with elliptic harsh entire leaves attaining 9 cm. 

 in length, and 5 cm. in width. The expanded flower is only 2 

 cm. in diameter. The ovary is described as globose. It was collect- 

 ed by Lobb " ad Sarawak " which would mean near Kuching. 



G. Havilandii, a new species, comes very near to 67. Lobbii, 

 and was obtained near Kuching. It differs in its petioles and its 

 filaments, points which on further study may be found perhaps not 

 worthy of the stress laid on them here. But until we have ob- 



Jour. Straits Branch 



