20* 
Perak, at elevations of 500 to 1000 feet, King's Collector. 
3. Gordonia Mainoayi, Dyer in Hook. fll. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 20]. A 
tree 30 to 40 feet high : young branches slender, with glabrous pale 
roughish bark, pubescent towards the apices. Leaves coriaceous, broad- 
ly oblanceolate, shortly and bluntly acuminate, obscurely serrulate in 
the upper two-thirds, the lower third gradually attenuate, entire: both 
surfaces glabrous, the upper greenish, the lower brownish when dry, the 
midrib bold and sparsely pubescent beneath ; lateral nerves 0 pairs, indis- 
tinct ; length 2*5 to 3 in,, breadth 1 to 11 in., petiole '25 in. Flowers 
sub-sessile, '8 to 1 in. in diam., buds sub-globular ; bracts, sepals and 
petals forming a coue, all adpressed-sericeous externally except the 
glabrous edges : pedicels about *15 in. long. Sepals and petals orbicu- 
lar, blunt or retuse. Stamens numerous; anthers elongate-ovoid; 
filaments much longer, slender. Ovary ovoid-conic, vertically ridged, 
adpressed-sericeous, 4 or 5-celled. Style single, angled. Stigmas 4 or 
5, acute, counive'it. Capsules 4 to 5-angled, woody, 1 to 1*25 long, '5 
to '6 in diam., 4 or 5-celled, backs of valves flat. Seeds *9 iu. long of 
which three-fourths are wing. 
Malacca ; Maingay, No. 192. Perak, Scortechini, Wray ; at about 
1000 feet. 
4. Gordonia Scortechinii, King, n. sp. A tree ; young branches 
slender, dark brown, glabrous, the apices and leaf- buds minutely puberu- 
lous. Leaves coriaceous, narrowly elliptic, blunt, or sub-emarginate, 
slightly narrowed to the sub-acute or rounded base ; both surfaces gla- 
brous, the lower dull, pale ; the upper shining, green when dry ; midrib 
bold ; nerves about 8 pairs, faint on the upper, invisible on the lower 
surface ; length 2 to 3 in., breadth '8 to 1*4 in., petiole *25 in. Flowers 
*6 in, in diam., solitary, axillary, only towards the apices of the branches, 
on very short curved pubescent peduncles. Buds ovoid. Sepals orbi- 
cular, fleshy, unequal, pubescent externally. Petals twice aa large as 
the sepals, membranous, puberulous externally. Stamens few, (only 
about 30) ; anthers broadly ovate, about a fourth as long as the flattened 
filaments. Ovary narrowly ovoid, pubescent, 3-celled. Styles 3, thick, 
shorter than the ovary, pubescent; stigmas on the inner surface only, 
slightly spreading. Fruit unknown. 
Perak ; Scortechini, No. 3626. 
This has a superficial resemblance to Q. Maingayii, to which the 
late Father Scortechini referred it. But it has smaller flowers with 
fewer stamens, and very different ovary and styles; the leaves moreover 
are thicker than those of G. Maingayii, and are not oblanceolate. 
5. Gordonia imbricata, King, n. sp. A tree ? Young branches 
rather stout, glabrous, dark purplish-brown when dry. Leaves coria- 
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