THE GYMNOSPERMS OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 61 
G. Brunonianum, Griff. Lindl. Veg. Kingdom 233. Trans. Linn. Soe. 
XXII. 308 t 55 fig 9-20 and t 56, 27, 28, 41, 43, 44—47.. Notulae 
30 Kurz Flora LV 349. G. Griffrithi Parlat. De. Prodr. XVI ii 
349, 352. 
A low erect shrub 2-5 feet tall, rarely much bigger, stem 
slender, pale green. Leaves lanceolate to oblong lanceclate, 
thinly coriaceous, base cuneate, apex acuminate, drying pale, 
nerves about 10 pairs, thin elevate keneath 4-6 inches long, 
1-24 inch wide, petiole §-4 inch long. Malespikesin axillary 
pairs, peduncles 4 inch long with a pair of connate, subulate 
bracts, 75 inch long, pedicel shorter, spikes slender cylindric 4 
4-4 inch long glabrous with a pair of subulate, connate bracts 
at the base. Cupular bracts rather remote, flat orbicular, bearing 
a mass of short hairs in which are imbedded the male flowers 
mixed with some females. Perianth short, broad, entire, oblong, 
half as long as the filament, anther cells globose. Female spikes 
longer, peduncle $-{ inch long, subulate, bracts free to the base, 
whorls of ovules % inch apart or less in a spike of 1 inch long. 
Cupular bract rather broad ribbed. Ovules acuminate about 6 in 
a whorl of which only 2 or 3 develop. Ripe seed ellipsoid 
half-an-inch long, red. 
G. Gnemon, besides being a big tree has much shorter spikes, the 
whorls closer set together, and thicker, the male flowers larger, 
with broader flattened perianth tube widely dilated upwards 
and laciniate at the tip, the anthers are larger, somewhat oblong 
and separate above. Ido not think that in the male trees the 
female flowers mixed in the whorls ever develop. 
Distrib. the whole peninsula and Borneo, origina!ly col- 
lected by Griffith at Banlau in the Mergui islands; Johor, 
Gunong Panti (Ridley) ; Malacea, Ayer Keroh (Ridley 10752), 
Mt. Ophir (Hullett 767, 808; Ridley 3156 3157) Bukit Bruang 
(Derry 441, Goodenough 1338), Sungei Ujong (Cantley); Pahang 
Tahan river (Ridley 2330 5824), Kwala Tembeling; Telom 
(Ridley 13708). Selangor, Sungei Buluh (Ridley 13352) and 
Kwala Kubu. Perak Maxwell’s Hill (Ridley 2783). Penang 
Government Hill at the Chalet (Curtis 878), Borneo, Sarawak, 
Matang (Hullett and Ridley 12272), Serudang (Haviland), Puak 
( Ridley.) ; 
This little shrub which is not rare all over the peninsula 
in hilly forests up to an altitude of about 4000 feet has been 
confused with G. Gnemon L. in the Flora of British India from 
which it differs notably in its size, the latter being a tree of 60 
feet or more tall with deep green leaves and longer spikes and 
larger. fruit, while G. Brunonianwn is a quite small shrub 
with pale green leaves and shorter spikes besides other 
differences in the flower. 
R. A. Soc., No. 60, 191. 
