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King’s Collector Nos. 3312, 10750; Wray No. 1279. Penang: Curtis 
No. 1685. Pahaug Ridley No. 4765. 
This species, although a much smaller tree, very much resembles 
G. divergens, Bl. in its leaves and inflorescence. The leaflets, however, 
are of a thicker texture than those of G. divergens and they dry of a 
different colour. The flowers of the two are almost exactly alike in 
structure; but those of G. divergens are yellow and very fragrant, while 
those of G. patens are greenish-white and have a disagreeable odour like 
that of Paederia foetida and of some species of Lasianthus. The fruits 
of the two moreover differ, those of G. divergens being turbinate- 
globular or nearly so, of a yellow colour, and more or less tomentose ; 
while the fruits of G. patens are of a deep red colour and glabrous when 
quite ripe. I have compared the type specimens of G. patens , Bl. and 
of G. holocalyx, Hiern., deposited, respectively, at Leiden and Kew, and 
I find the two to be identical. 
14. Chisocheton divergens, Blume, Bijdr. ? 69. A tree 40 to 100 
feet high ; young branches glabrous, the bark dark-coloured. Leaves 
9 to 18 in. long, the main raehis deciduously puberulous ; leaflets 4 to ]2 
pairs, membranous, opposite or sub-opposite, narrowly oblong or oblong- 
lanceolate, shortly acuminate, slightly narrowed to the rounded or 
slightly cuneate unequal base ; both surfaces glabrous, reticulate, the 10 
to 12 pairs of curving ascending nerves prominent on the lower when 
dry ; length 2 5 to 6 in., breadth 1T5 to 1*75 in., petiolules *15 to ’25 
in. Panicles solitary, supra-axillary, pendulous, about as long as the 
leaves, pyramidal, the lower branches of the male panicles 6 or 7 in. 
long, of the female 4 or 5 in., the ultimate branclilets of both cyme-like, 
dense, many-flowered. Male Flowers '25 in. long, on short pubescent 
pedicels. Galyx cupular, puberulous, the mouth entire or waved. Petals 
4, three or four times as long as the calyx and slightly longer than the 
staminal-tube, recurved, elliptic, obtuse, sub-glabrous. Staminal-tube 
free from the petals, widely tubular, glabrous except a few strong 
hairs at the throat, the mouth with 6 lanceolate spreading teeth ; an¬ 
thers 6. linear-elongate, about as long as the teeth of the calyx. Ovary 
small, surrounded by a narrow fleshy glabrous disc ; style cylindric, pu¬ 
bescent ; stigma small, disc-like with an annulus at its base. Female 
flowers like the males, but usually without anthers ; the ovary ovoid- 
conic, pubescent. Fruit obovoid or depressed-globose, tapering at the 
base into a pseudo-stalk, minutely tomentose, 1*5 in. in diam., 2-celled, 
seeds about 2. Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. 2, 537; Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. 
IY. 28; C. De Cand. Mon. Phan. I, 529. G. fra,grans , Hiern in Hook, 
fil. FI. Br. Ind. I, 551; C. De Cand. 1. c. 529. 
Malacca: Griffith, No. 1062/1 Maingay, (Kew Distrib.) No. 324. 
