1891.] G. King — Materials f or a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 57 
partly immersed in the calyx-tube, globular or sub-globular, 5-celled ; 
the ovules few, erect. Style short; stigma peltate, discoid, large. 
Fruit large, woody, muricate externally, hairy within, 5-celled, few- 
seeded, dehiscent. Throe species ; all Malayan. 
C. Gbiffithii, Benth. in Benth. & Hook. fil. Gen. Plant, i. 213. 
A tree ; the young branches rather slender, dark-coloured, striate, 
minutely and deoiduously scaly. Leaves coriaceous, oval, shortly and 
bluntly acuminate, the base rounded ; upper surface glabrous, lower 
sparsely adpressed- scaly ; main nerves about 8 pairs, spreading, faint ; 
length 2 - 4 to 3 75 in., breadth 1‘25 to l - 6 in.; petiole '5 to 75 in., 
minutely adpressed-scaly. Inflorescence of fasciculate cymose racemes 
about 2 in. long, from the axils of fallen leaves, many-flowered ; pedicels 
longer than the flowers. Flowers ‘25 in. in diam,, scaly. Bracts connate 
into a 3-lobed cup less than half as long as the calyx. Calyx constrict- 
ed at the base, then dilated into a 5-pouched sac which is contracted 
and 5-toothed at its apex. Petals 5, distinct, inserted on the calyx at 
the apex of its tube, triangular, acute, conuivent, fleshy, glabrous. 
Stamens numerous, attached to the petals ; the anthers small, globose, 
3 or 4-celled. Ovary globular-obovate, densely covered with large 
loose scales. Style shorter than the ovary ; stigma peltate, thick, its 
edges wavy. Fruit unknown. Mast, in Hook. fil. PI. Br. Ind. i. 353 
and Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 505, t. xvi, figs. 43 to 50. Beccari Malesia, 
iii. 270. 
Malacca, Griffith; Perak, Scortechini, King’s Collector. 
Fruit was not known when this genus was first established by 
the late Mr. Bentham ; and, of this species, fruit is still unknown. Sig. 
Beccari has, however, discovered two species in Sumatra and Borneo 
(G. Sumatrana and Bornensis) the fruit of which he describes and 
figures ( Malesia , iii. 271, t. xxvii. to xxix) ; and from his description 
the generic description has been completed. 
Order XVIII. STERCULIACE^E. 
Herbs, shrubs or trees ; herbaceous portions usually more or less 
stellate-pubescent Baric usually abounding in mucilage, inner fibrous. 
Leaves alternate, simple, often lobed, stipulate. Inflorescence axillary, 
rarely torminal, usually cymose. Flowers regular, uni- or bi-sexual. 
Sepals 5. often connate. Petals 5 or 0. Andrcecium columnar or tubu- 
lar, of many stamens; or stamens rarely few, free ; anthers in heads, 
or in a single ring at the apex of the column, or dispersed on the out- 
side of the tube, or arranged along the edge of a cup or tube, with 
intervening staminodes or sterile stamens ; anther-cells always 2, 
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