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ceases. Ovaries narrow, puberulous, 1-ovuled ; style straight ; stigma 
2- or 3-lobed. Ripe carpels crowded, ovoid -oblong, apiculate, glabrous, 
narrowed to the short stalks, *45 in. long ; stalks 2 to 25 in. Seed 
smooth, pale. 
Perak ; at low elevations ; Scortechini, Wray, King's Collector. 
Tie leaves of this species inuch resemble those of Pohjalthia obfonga, 
King. 
14. Goniothalamus Wrayi, King, n. sp. A shrub 3 to 12 feet 
high, glabrous, except the flowers : young branches slender, very pale. 
Leaves membranous, oblanceolate to lanceolate or oblong, shortly and 
bluntly acuminate, the base enneate : both surfaces pale (when dry), 
obscurely reticulate : main nerves 14 to IS pairs, spreading, straight, 
slender and very slightly prominent even when dry : length 4 - 5 to 9 in., 
breadth \ '2o to 2 in., petiole *2 to 25 in. Flowers solitary, slightly 
supra-axillary; pedicels slender, decurved, minutely braeteolate, '35 in. 
(elongated to "75 in. in fruit). Sepals membranous, slightly nerved and 
reticulate, ovate, acuminate, spreading or recurved, puberulous outside, 
'2 in. long, persistent. Petals sub-coriaceous, greenish -yellow, puberul- 
ous : th6 outer narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, the bases thickened and 
not narrowed to a claw, *65 to "75 in. long : inner petals about half as 
long, ovate-aeuiuimite. Anthers numerous, half as long as the ovaries, 
compressed, their apices with a long thin point from a broad base. 
Ovaries about 20, narrowly cyliudric, hairy like the stout, straight style 
1- to 2-ovuled : stigma truncate. Ripe carpels narrowly obovoid to 
oblong, apiculate, gradually tapering to the stalk, glabrous, '6 in. long. 
Seeds usually I, rarely 2, oblong. 
Perak : at low elevations very common ; Wray, Scortechini, King's 
Collector. 
15. GoxtOTHALAiius uvarioides, King, n. sp. A shrub 6 to 15 feet 
high: all parts glabrous except the flower and fruit; young branches 
pale. Leaves thinly coriaceous, oblong, slightly obovate, slightly narrow- 
ed to the minutely cordate base ; both surfaces rather dull when dry, 
the lower pale brawn, the edges slightly recurved j main nerves 22 to 25 
pail's, spreading, rather straight, inter-arching near the margin ; length 
10 to 15 in., breadth 9 to 6 in. ; petiole *4 in., stout, channelled. Flowers 
on the trunk, (solitary ?) ; pedicels curved, stout, '35 in. long. Sepals 
coriaceous, semi-orbicular, blunt, pubescent, 2 in. long. Petals very 
coriaceous, yellow : the outer broadly lanceolate, thickened and truncate 
at the base, rufous-pubescent, 15 in. long: inner petals like the outer 
but with contracted bases and only 1 to 1*2 in. long. Antliers with 
conical apices. Ovaries hairy; style cylindrio ; stigma small, truncate, 
minutely bind. Eipe carpels oblong, tapering to each end, puberulous, 
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