THE GYMNOSPERMS OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 65 
Spikes branched. 
G laisjolswm, Bl. Rumphia IV 5. Tab. 174. 
_A moderate sized climber with oblong lanceolate leaves, 
deep green, drying black, apex acuminate, blunt, base cuneate, 
(the leaves are cften at least slightly inzequilateral) nerves 
about 8 pair, visible above, prominent beneath as are the reti- 
culations, 5-6 inches long, 2-3 inches wide, petiole + to nearly $ 
inch long. Male spikes cylindric, usually 5 together, 1 to 1% 
inch long. Bracts saucer shaped, green, approximate. Perianth 
wedge, shapel with a broad top nearly as long as the filament, 
anther cells separate. Females 2 or 3 in a tuft from the trunk, 
branched with few lax branches, spreading, whole inflorescence 
6 inches long. Branches about 6, remote, over an inch apart, 
peduncles of spikes 1; inch long, spikes 2 inches long, whorls 
distant § inch apart, glabrous. Bract funnel shaped. Ovules 
6-7 in a whorl ovoid, not beaked. Ripe seed on a spike a foot 
long, rachis much enlarged and thickened, zigzag seed 2 inches 
long, fusiform base abruptly narrowed into a cylindric stalk ¢ 
inch long, apex bluntly conic. 
Pahang Telom (Ridley 13709) on a fallen tree by the 
stream. 
Distrib. Malay islands. 
Blumes’ figure is an excellent one and exactly suits the 
Telom plant. 
A specimen distributed by the Philippines Bureau as Gn. 
latifolium, Bl. from Lamao River, Mt. Mariveles 1805, closely 
resembles this in foliage and inflorescence but the fruit is 
- smaller and distinctly stipitate. 
Species with fruit stalked. 
G. -fumculare, Bl. Nov. Pl. Fam 32. Ann. Se. Nat. Ser. 2. V. 2. 
106. Rumphia IV 7. Abatua indica Lour. Fl. Cochinch. 630. 
Poo Hi Brit. Ind. V: p.642. 
A very stout woody climber with black bark, stem 2 inches 
through. Leaves thickly coriaceous, dark green, drying black 
polished oblong to lanceolate, oblong or ovate oblong, cuspidate 
or blunt, nerves 6 or 7 pairs, 5 to 6 or 7 inches long, 24 to 8 
inches wide; petiole 4-4 inch long. Male spikes stout, cylindric, 
1 inch long, densely crowded on knots on the trunk on pedicels 
half-an-inch long, green with yellow stamens. Cupular bracts 
overlapping circular, saucer shaped, containing abundance of 
brown multicellular hairs about as long as the bract. Perianth 
elongate, goblet-shaped from a narrow base, apex broad, # the 
length of the stamen. Stamen with a stout filament and 2 
distinct globose cells. Female inflorescence of opposite pairs 
of pedunculate spikes on main peduncles, over on inch long. 
Bracts connate at the base, subulate, § inch long. Secondary 
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