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oblong-lanceolate leaves and whicli have neither flowers nor fruit. It 
is possible that the second set belong to an undescribed species. 
6. Gomphandra gracilis, King, n. sp. A glabrous shrub or small 
tree ; young branches thin, pale. Leaves membranous, lanceolate or 
ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, the base much narrowed, the edges slightly 
recurved when dry, wavy and sub-crenulate; main nerves 6 or 7 pairs, 
spreading, faint. Peduncles axillary and terminal, nearly half as long 
as the leaves; the cymes trichotomous, compound, the ultimate cymules 
umbellate. Male flowers *1 in. long, the buds sub-globular; Calyx 
cupular, shallow, with 5 minute teeth ; 'petals 5, oblong, glabrous, re¬ 
flexed, 4 or 5 or 6 times as long as the calyx. Filaments 5, thin, flat, 
attenuate upwards, bearing a tuft of white bulbous-pointed hairs below 
the small anther. Female flower with calyx and abortive stamens like 
the male, the petals (if any) deciduous. Ovary long, cylindric, glabrous, 
crowned by the large pileate stigma, 2-celled, one of the cells usually 
empty, the other with a single long ovule suspended from its apex. 
Fruit ellipsoid, flat on one side, curved, glabrous, striate, about ‘65 in. 
long, imperfectly 2-celled and with a single pendulous seed. 
Perak : Wray, King’s Collector ; common. 
A species readily distinguished by its small flowers globular in 
bud, and by its curved imperfectly 2-celled fruit. 
7. Gomphandra andamanica, King. A tree; young branches 
tawny-puberulous. Leaves thinly coriaceous, oblong or elliptic, shortly 
and rather abruptly acuminate, the base round or narrowed, sometimes 
oblique; main nerves 8 or 9 pairs, curved, ascending, prominent be¬ 
neath and depressed above when dry ; length 5 to 8 in., breadth 2 to 3 
in., petiole *4 to *6 in. Cymes in the axils of leaves or of fallen leaves, 
often 2 together, '5 to *8 in. in diam,, many-flowered, dense, rusty- 
pubescent, their peduncles stout and ’4 or *5 in. long. Floivers nearly 
*15 in. long, sessile, globose-obovate in bud. Calyx cupular, thin, irregu¬ 
larly and minutely 4-5-tootlied, tomentose externally, and glabrous in¬ 
ternally like the petals. Petals 5, oblong-oblanceolate, spreading, the 
apices curved, three times as long as the calyx. Male flowers : sta - 
mens 5, as long as the petals, free, the filaments quite glabrous; disk 
hypogynous, fleshy, embracing the base of the narrowly ovoid small 
rudimentary ovary. Female flower: calyx as in the male ; petals and 
stamens not seen; ovary narrowly ellipsoid, with a short constriction 
at the apex, stigma disciform. Fruit compressed-ellipsoid, about 1 in. 
long, slightly convex on one side, deeply grooved on the other; the 
pericarp glabrous, vertically striate, thin; the endocarp leathery, 2-celled, 
one cell without a seed, and divided by vertical false dissepiments into 
several chambers, the other cell occupied by a single pendulous flat seed 
