158 GORDONIA. 



narrows into the style. It occurs on the mountains of Pahang, 

 both on Gunong Tahan and Gunong Benom at Kluang Terbang. 



Figure 15. A branch of G. imbricata showing two flushes, a. a. the 

 periodic reduced leaves, reduced to £ from Ridley, 16021. 



G. Scortechinii, King, in Journ. Asiatic Soc, Bengal, lix, 

 1890, p. 24, might be described as G. imbricata with an admixture 

 of G. Maingayi. Its branches however are more slender than in 

 the first of these two and its flowers are recorded as remarkably 

 small, the stamens being no more than 30. The locality whence it 

 was obtained is unrecorded except as " Perak." 



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

 1860, p. 162, is obviously a close ally of the last two. Its leaves 

 are broadly ovate to obovate, with the condition of the apex varying. 

 Its flowers are large, being nearly 4 cm. across. It was obtained 

 on Mount Kinabalu in Borneo at about 8,000 feet. 



Haemocharis buxifolia, Szyszylowicz, appears to be one of 

 this set of Gordonias, and the type specimen should be re-examined 

 with this view. It was obtained in western Sumatra at Paya 

 Komba. 



Haemocharis ovalis, (Korth.) O. Kuntze, is the only species 

 of which it is clearly said that the style is indistinguishable : " Stylus 

 haud manif estus " are Korthals words : which together with his 

 further statement " ovarium ovoicleum, apice truncatum " do in- 

 dicate such a condition as is in the American Haemocharis. 



On this account I do not attempt to find a place for it among 

 the species of Gordonia, but put it at the end. Its leaves are de- 

 scribed as much smaller than the species around G. luzonica (7 cm. 

 long by 2 cm. broad) ; but they are serrulate or crenate, and there- 

 fore not as those ending the series such as G. imbricata. 



It was obtained in the forests, of Melintang in Sumatra. 



No attempt is possible at placing Haemocharis amboinensis. 



Jour. Straits Branch 



