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5-5 inches long, 1*T5 to 2-25 inches wide, nerves very numerous 

 horizontal meeting in an intra-marginal nerve close to the 

 edge : reticulations visible ; costa rounded ; edge not thickened ; 

 petiole very stort, wrinkled, -5 inches long. Male flowers not 

 seen. Female flowers solitary, axillary from tubercles covered 

 with short ovate bracts. Fruit obovoid pear-shaped, narrowed 

 at base, widest near apex, tip depressed, 2-5 to 3 inches 

 through, on a long 1*T5 inches peduncle, yellow. Sepals per- 

 sistent, small, ovate. Stigma small, 5-lobed, lobes rounded. 

 Seeds 2-3, reniform, brown, 1 inch long, -25 inches wide. 



Pexaxg: Penara Bukit (Curtis 309-1). 



Xear G. densiflora, King, of which the female is unknown 

 but the foliage is quite different, the texture being thinner ; and 

 drying pale, the midrib is not acute and the margin not 

 thickened. 



Ternstroemia montana, n. sp. (Ternstmmiacea'). Branches 

 stout, grey. Leaves thick, coriaceous, obovate to oblaneeolate, 

 blunt, long-narrowed to the petiole, 2*5 to 3 inches long, 1-1-25 

 inches wide, nerves above invisible, beneath often invisible but 

 sometimes distinct, 3-4 pairs, arched, and anastomosing some 

 way from the margin. Flowers in the upper axiis of the leaves 

 or below the leaves : pedicels short and thick -20 inches long : 

 flowers -5 inches across glabrous. Sepals subequal, rotund, 

 coriaceous. Petals coriaceous, rotund, edges denticulate. 

 Stamens glabrous: anthers linear, oblong, longer than the 

 filament. 



Perak: Gunong Kerbau at 4500 feet (Robinson) . 



This differs from T. Maclellandi, Eidl. for which I at first 

 took it in the nervation, which in that species so far as it is 

 ever visible is horizontal slightly ascending, in this it is curved 

 in the centre and anastomoses some way from the edge, the 

 flowers are bigger, the pedicels much shorter and thicker, the 

 petals coriaceous and minutely denticulate. 



Gordonia singaporeana, Wall. Cat. 1457, (G. grandis, King 

 in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, lix. (1890) p. 203) (Ternstroemi- 

 acece). There seems to have been some confusion as to the 

 Gordonias of the low country of the Malay Peninsula. The 

 type of G. singaporenana referred by King to his Gordonia 

 exeelsa, is undoubtedly the common G. grandis King, a native 

 of Singapore. This species is closely allied to the true G. 

 exeelsa, Bl. of Java, resembling it in the leaves in which the 

 lamina is decurrent on the petiole, differing in the rather 

 smaller flowers, and silky pubescence of the bud and young 

 shoot. G. grandis having these parts quite glabrous. 



G. exeelsa, King, is a totally different plant, and has rather 

 an affinity with G. Maingayi as King suggests than with the 

 G. exeelsa, Bl. I describe it under the name of 67. penangensis. 



R. A. Soc, No. 73, 1916. 



