60 THE GYMNOSPERMS OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 
The climbing species generally attain a great size and 
form often conspicuous lianes in the forests. The bark is 
tough and used for tying by the Malays. 
GNETUM. 
Woody climbers, or rarely erect trees or shrubs unisexual. 
Leaves opposite, coriaceous, ovate, lanceolate or oblong, 
penninerved petiolate. Inflorescence spikes of circular saucer 
shaped bracts containing sessile flowers usually surrounded by 
multicellular hairs, spikes solitary or panicled axillary or 
terminal. Male flowers minute of a tubular clubbed perianth 
and a single stamen with two celled anther. Kemale flower of 
an ovoid or globose ovule, the inner tegument prolonged into a 
slender exserted tube. Seed thinly drupaceous, pink or red. 
Species about Pacific-islands, Malay Archipelago and 
Peninsula, Northern India, Africa and South America. 
A big tree, G. Gnemon. 
A low shrub, G. Brunonianum. 
Woody climbers 
Seed sessile, not narrowed into a stalk at the base, spikes 
simple. 
Seed blunt at both ends 
Spikes long. Seed half an inch long. 
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. microcarpum. 
Spikes stout, very woolly. Seed half an 
inch long G. macrostachyum. 
Spikes slender not woolly 6 inches long. 
Seed 1 inch long G. penangense. 
Spikes a foot long whorls distant G. longispica. 
Seeds few, large, acute at the tip, brown, 
corky G. edule. 
Spikes branched. 
Seed 2 inches long fusiform _G. latifolium 
Seed stalked. 
A stout woody climber r. funiculare. 
A slender climber with thin leaves G. tenurfolium. 
GNETUM. 
TREES. 
Gn. Gnemon, L. Mant. 125. A big tree known in the Straits as 
_ “ Maninjau”’ cultivated occasionally in Penang and Singapore 
and said to be introduced there from Java. The seeds are 
eaten and taste like hazelnuts, 
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