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Blume’s figures and description of G. neglectwm and G. 
microcarpum are hardly sufficient to distinguish the two species. 
Hooker refers this species to his neglectwm with a? Judging 
by the colour of the seed, and its size and length of spike, I 
have little doubt that Blume’s G. mcrocarpum is intended for 
this species. G. neglectum is figured with larger seed on six inch 
spikes of a dark claret color, instead of the flesh coloured pink 
of microcarpum. 
Gn. macrostachyum, Hook fil. Fl. Brit. India V 642. 
A stout woody climber with rough brown lenticellate bark. 
Leaves stiffly coriaceous. elliptic or elliptic lanceolate, shortly 
cuspidate, blunt, base rounded, or occasionally shortly narrowed 
7-8 inches long, 3-4 inches wide, usually drying light brown, 
nerves nearly invisible above, slender, slightly elevated beneath, 
4-6 pairs, reticulations fairly visible rather large and ir- 
regular, petiole rather thick, + inch long. Male spike (only seen 
young) 24 inch long on a short peduncle, $ inch long with a 
pair of ovate, acute, connate bracts, cupular bracts saucer shaped 
close together with much brown hairs between. Female spikes 
solitary or in pairs, one in each leaf, axil very shortly peduncled, 
cylindric, 3-4 inches long, 2-% inches wide, cupular bracts 
close set, saucer shaped, almost hidden in the dense brown wool 
surrounding the ovules of which it conceals all but the tip. 
Ripe spike about 4 to 6 inches long and #¢ inch through, 
densely woolly. Seeds crowded, oblong, ovate, shortly acute, 
half an inch Jong, a quarter of an inch through. 
Singapore, Siglap (Ridley 9207), Changi (4822 and Hullett) 
Jurong (Ridley 5566) and Bidadari (8918): Malacca, Bukit 
Bruang (Ridley) ; Proy. Wellesley, Krian (Ridley 9383). 
Gn. penangense 0. 8.p. 
Gn. 
Woody climber, Leaves elliptic to oblong cuspidate, 
coriaceous, drying black, nerves 4-5 pairs, base shortly narrow- 
ed, reticulations fine conspicuous beneath, 6 inches long, 23 
inches wide, petiole half an inch long. Spike in fruit from the 
stem stout, 6 inches long, peduncle 1 ineh long, whorls + inch 
apart of about 6 ovoid acute ovules. Cupular bracts flat saucer 
like, a thin square mat of hairs below the ovule, and shorter 
than it. Ripe ovules oblong, 1 inch long, blunt at both ends. 
Penang Government Hili (Ridley and Curtis 2223). 
Allied to G. microcarpum but with the leaves of G. fund- 
culare and very much larger spikes and ovules. 
longispica Ni. sp. 
A woody climber £ inch through with warty bark. Leaves 
broadly lanceolate, narrowed almost equally at both ends, coria- 
ceous, drying light brown, 6 inches long by 3 inches wide, 
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