1890. J G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 203 



1. Gordonia excelsa, Bl. Bijdr. 130. A free 30 to 40 feefc high : 

 young branches slender, smooth, pale brown, pubescent towards the apex. 

 Leaves thinly coriaceous, glabrous, elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, the 

 edge slightly recurved, sub-serrulate, base acnte ; midrib bold, puberu- 

 lous near the base beneath : main nerves 5 to 7 pairs, indistinct, bifurca- 

 ting - 3 in. from the edge and forming wide intra-marginal areolae : 

 length 2*5 to 5 in., breadth 1 to 1"5 in. ; petiole '3 in., slender. Flowers 

 1"5 in. in diam., subsessile, solitary, in the upper axils only ; pedicel 

 about '1 in. ; bracteoles lanceolate, small, fugaceous. Sepals spreading, 

 free, orbicular, pubescent externally, fleshy. Petals white, much larger 

 than the sepals, orbicular, minutely pubescent externally, fleshy with 

 broad membranous glabrous margins. Anthers ovoid, only a quarter of 

 the length of the flattened filaments. Ovary hemispheric-conic, verti- 

 cally ridged, densely sericeous, 5-celled. Styles single, slender, 5- 

 angled; stigma small, with 5 blunt radiating lobes. Capsule 1'5 in. 

 long, "75 in. in diam., deciduously adpressed-pubescent. Seeds 1 in. or 

 more long, three-fourths being wing. Dyer in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i, 

 291. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. ii, p. 489. O. singaporiana, Wall. Cat. 

 1457 (in part). Antheeischima excelsa, Korth. Verh. Nat. Gesch. Bot. 

 138, t. 27. Dipterospermai, sp. Griff. Notul. iv, 564. 



Malacca. Penang; Curtis No. 834, King's Collector. Perak ; King's 

 Collector, Wray ; at elevations of 1200 to 2,500 feet. Distrib. Outer 

 ranges of Eastern Himalaya. 



Allied to G. Maingayi, but with much larger flowers and fruit and 

 differently shaped leaves. 



2. Gordonia grandis, King, n. sp. A tree 80 to 120 feet high ; all 

 parts except the flowers glabrous ; young branches as thick as a goose- 

 quill, dark purplish-brown when dry. Leaves coriaceous, oblong-oblan- 

 ceolate, shortly acuminate, faintly serrate-crenate in the upper two-thirds, 

 entire in the lower third and prolonged along the petiole : upper surface 

 greenish when dry, shining ; the lower dull, brown : nerves 10 to 12 pairs, 

 indistinct, interarching '15 in. from the margin; length 4 5 to 6 in., 

 breadth l'l to 1*5 in., petiole proper "15 in. Flowers 15 to 2 in. in diam., 

 solitary, axillary, about '3 in. long, puberulous ; buds globose ; brac- 

 teoles few, small, fugaceous. Sepals and petals greenish, rotund, mi- 

 nutely adpressed-sericeous externally, coriaceous,5,the edges thin and gla- 

 brous ; the petals much the larger, spreading. Stamens very numerous ; 

 anthers narrowly oblong, about a fifth of the length of the slender slightly 

 flattened filaments. Ovary narrowly ovoid, vertically ridged, minutely 

 adpressed-sericeous. Style longer than the ovary, vertically ridged and 

 sericeous like the ovary. Stigma with 5 small roundish lobes. Fruit 

 unknown. 

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