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"75 to 1"25 in., flat, more or less winged. Flowers 1'25 to 1 - 5 in. in diam., 

 axillary, crowded at the apices of the branches and forming lax terminal 

 pseudo-corymbs ; peduncles I to 1*5 in. long, slender, thickened towards 

 the apex, glabrous or pubescent, bracteoles minute. Sepals rounded, or 

 sub-acute, glabrous or glabrescent, the margins minutely ciliate, about '15 

 in. long. Petals thin, veined, obovate, clawed, their bases pubescent and 

 their edges ciliate in the lower half, white or pale pink. Stamens 5- 

 delphous ; anthers sub-rotund, small, the filaments 4 or 5 times as long. 

 Ovary depressed-hemispheric, pubescent, 5-celled. Style thick; stigma 

 discoid, with 5 blunt lobes. Fruit '75 in. in diam., adpressed-pubescent 

 when young, glabrous or sub-glabrous when old ; upper part of columella 

 expanded, 5-angled. Kortli. Verb. Nat. Gesch. Bot. 143, t. 29, figs. 21 

 to 27. Choisy Mem. Ternst. 54 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. i, p. 492 ; 

 Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. IV, 112 ; Kurz For. Fl Burm. i, 107. S. crenata, 

 Kortb. 1. c. t. 29, figs. 1 to 20 ; Miq. Flora 1. c. 491 ; Ann. 1. c. 113 ; Kurz 

 1. c. 107; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i, 289. Pierre Fl. Forest Coch.-Chine, t. 

 121. Gordonia floribunda, Wall. Cat. 1456; Griff. Not. iv, 563. G. 

 oblata, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii, 572. 



In all the provinces except the Andamans and Nicobars. Distrib. 

 The Malayan Aixdiipelago, Burmah, at elevations of 1000 to 3000 feet. 



This rather widely distributed species varies remarkably little. Iu 

 spite, however, of this, Korthal, carved out if it his species S. crenata, 

 which he states to have the same calyx, corolla, stamens, ovary, style and 

 stigma as Reinwardt's Noronliae, but to differ in the leaves and capsule. 

 His own descriptions and figures of leaves and capsule, however, of both 

 species are practically identical. The only other really distinct species 

 of the genus appear to me to be <S. Khasiana, Dyer, S. bancana, Miq. 

 and perhaps S. Wallichii, Choisy. 



9. Gordonia, Ellis. 



Trees with evergreen entire or crenate leaves. Flowers usually 

 large, often subsessile, solitary in the axils of the leaves or collected at 

 the ends of the branches, 2-4 bracteolate. Sepals usually 5, unequal, 

 graduating from the bracts to the petals. Petals free or united at the 

 base, imbricate, the inner larger. Stamens indefinite, 5-delphous or 1- 

 delphous, aduate to the petals: anthers versatile. Ovary 3-5-celled; 

 style single ; the stigma flat, rotund, rather thick, sometimes lobed ; 

 ovules pendulous, 4 to 8 in each cell. Capsule oblong, woody, loculicidal, 

 with a persistent column. Seeds flat or compressed, the apex often 

 winded, albumen none; embryo usually straight, the cotyledons ovate, 

 flat or plicate. Distrib. Tropical, Asia N. America. Species about 

 15. 





