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A large shrub or small tree. Leaves alternate, short 

 petioled, eight or nine inches in length, from lanceolate to 

 oblong oval, varying considerably in breadth from two to 

 three inches, acuminate, acute at the base, obtusely denti- 

 culate, very smooth, shining, middle nerve very strong, 

 lateral veins numerous, transverse, somewhat reticulate, de- 

 licate, uniting near each margin into two nerves which run 

 parallel to it almost the whole length, and give the leaf the 

 appearance of being five-nerved. Petioles very short. Sti- 

 pules intrapetiolar, broad at the base, acuminate, deciduous. 

 Panicles terminal, not much branched ; pedicels slender, 

 rarely solitary, surrounded at their base by small acute 

 bracts. Calyx five-leaved, persistent, leaflets ovate, acute, 

 smooth, lucid. Corolla yellow, five-petalled, scarcely longer 

 than the calyx. Stamina ten ; filaments very short ; anthers 

 long, linear, opening at the top by two pores. Style as long 

 as the stamina. Stigma acute. Ovaries five, surrounding 

 the base of the style, and elevated on a receptacle. This 

 receptacle enlarges as the fruit ripens. The number of 

 abortive ovaries is variable ; sometimes only one comes to 

 perfection. The berries are drupaceous, obliquely reni- 

 form, somewhat compressed, one-seeded. Seed exalbumi- 

 nous. 



06.9.— ^This appears to have so much resemblance to the 

 G. Malabarica, Decand : Pua Tsjetti. Rheed, Mai. V. 

 p. 103. t. 52, that I have some hesitation in proposing it as 

 a distinct species. The points of difference are the follow- 

 ing : the leaves of this are much longer than those of the 

 Malabar species which are described as almost veinless, while 

 in this the transverse veins unite into two very distinct mar- 

 ginal nerves, which it is difficult to suppose could have 

 escaped observation had they existed in the other. The 

 representation of the inflorescence in Rheede's figure is unin- 

 telligible, and his description of it is not much clearer, 

 but as far as it can be made out, it appears difi^erent from 



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