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1. Gordonia excelsa, Bl. Bijdr. 130- A tree 30 to 40 feet 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, fugaceoua, Sepals spreading, 
free, orbicular, pubescent externally, fleshy. Petals white, much larger 
than the Bepals, 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-ceIled. Styles single, slender, 5- 
angled; stigma small, with 5 blunt radiating lobes. Capsule 1*5 in. 
long, *75 in. in diam., decidnously 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. (?. singaporiana, Wall. Cat. 
1457 (in part). Antheeischima excelsa, Korth. Verh. Nat. Gescb. Hot. 
138, t. 27. Dipterospermm, 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. Gordoxia graxdis, 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, iuterarching *15 in. from the margin ; length 4'5 to 6* in., 
breadth 1"1 to 15 in., petiole proper '15 in. Flowers l b to 2 in. in diam., 
solitary, axillary, about 3 in. long, puberulous ; buds globose j brac- 
teoles few, small, fugaceous. Sepals and petals greenish, rotund, mi- 
nutely adpreased-sericeous externally, coriaceous, 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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