114 G. King— Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. 1, 
Hook. fil. FI. Br. Ind. I, 587. Stemonurus penangianus , Miers Contrib. 
I, 90; Kurz For. Flor. Burm. 1,238. Wall. Cat. 3718. G. axillaris 
(in part). 
Penang; Wallicli, Curtis. Perak; Scorteclnni, King’s Collector, 
Wray ; very common. 
4. Gomphandra nyssifolia, King. A tree 15 to 40 feet high; 
young branches dark-coloured, slightly winged under the nodes. 
Leaves coriaceous, elliptic-ovate, abruptly and shortly acuminate, the 
base cuneate; main nerves rather straight, ascending, prominent on the 
lower surface, the transverse veins distinct, ovary sub-horizontal; length 
3'5 to 5*5 in., breadth 2 to 2‘5 in., petiole *3 in. Gymes axillary, some¬ 
times 2 together, their pedicels shorter than or as long as the petioles; 
flowers 4 to 6, sessile, *25 in. long. Female flower: calyx cupular, with 
5 minute distant teeth or sub-entire ; petals 5, puberulous outside, 
5 or 6 times as long as the calyx. Filaments flat, with a few white 
short hairs just below the anther, especially in front. Disk adherent 
to the base of the ovary, glabrous. Ovary cylindric, as long as the 
petals, puberulous, crowned by the large discoid lobed stigma. Fruit 
ellipsoid, slightly clavate, glabrous, ridged, crowned by the persistent 
stigma, *8 in. long, and *35 in. in diam. 
Perak: Scortechini, King’s Collector, Nos. 6406 and 6984. 
I have not seen the true male flowers of this species. 
5. Gomphandra Maingayi, King. A glabrous shrub 4 to 6 feet high ; 
young branches rather stout, dark-coloured, glabrous. Leaves sub- 
coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate and acuminate, or sub-rhomboidal acute, 
the base cuneate; main nerves 5 or 6 pairs, rather straight, ascending, 
prominent beneath; length 2 to 3‘5 in., breadth *9 to 1*2 in., petiole 
‘25 in. Peduncles longer than the petiole, slender ; cymules 2 or 3, um- 
bellulate, each 4- to 5-flowered. Flowers *15 in. long, sessile. Calyx 
cupular, tomentose, with 4 or 5 shallow teeth. Petals 5, four or five 
times as long as the calyx, rather thick, oblong, sub-acuminate, the 
apex indexed, the midrib dark. Filaments pointed at the apex and with 
small tufts of long white sub-apical hairs ; anthers pendulous from the 
apex of the filaments. Rudimentary ovary and disk absent. Female flower 
unknown. Fruit (fide Masters) ovoid, ‘25 to ‘5 in. long, 1-celled, 1-seeded. 
Stemonurus Maingayi , Yaleton Olacinege, 236. Lasianthera Maingayi , 
Mast, in Hook. FI. Br. Ind. I, 585. 
Malacca: Maingay (Kew Distrib.), No. 374 2 . Penang: Curtis. 
Known only by Maingay’s and Curtis’s scanty specimens. It is pos¬ 
sible that under these there may really be two species : for Maingay’s 
specimens divide themselves into two sets ; one with sub-rhomboid acute 
leaves which bear the flowers described above; the other with narrowly 
