118 G\ King— Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. 1, 
towards the base. Connective of anthers everywhere densely silky- 
comose, the anther lobes separated. Ovary globose-ovoid, tapering into 
the short style, 1-celled. Dish thin, hyaline, enveloping the base only 
of the ovary. Fruit unknown. Stemonurus umbellatus, Beccari, Malesia, 
I, 115 ; tav. XY, pp. 5, 6 . Stemonurus intermedins , Scort. MSS. in Herb. 
Calc. 
Perak : King’s Collector, Scortechini.— Distrjb. Borneo. 
3. Lasianthera malaccensis, Mast, in Hook fil. FI. Br. Ind. I, 584. 
A glabrous tree 30 to 40 feet high ; young branches cinereous, terete, 
glabrous. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic-oblong to elliptic, shortly and 
abruptly acuminate, the base narrowed, midrib prominent on the upper, 
depressed on the lower surface; main nerves about 10 pairs, straight, 
sub-ascending, faint on both surfaces; length 3 to 4‘5 in., breadth P2 
to 2'25 in., petiole '3 or *4 in. Cymes slightly longer than the petioles, 
dichotomous, 8- to 10-flowered. Flowers sessile, ebracteate, 2 in. long. 
Calyx with 5 acute teeth, puberulous. Petals 3 or 4 times as long as 
the calyx, otherwise as in L. secundiflora. Filaments with a small tuft 
of hairs in front, otherwise as in L. secundiflora. Fruit unknown. Stemo¬ 
nurus capitatus , Beccari, Malesia, I, 114, tav. XY, figs. 7 to 11 ; Yaleton, 
Olacinese, 236. 
Malacca: Maingay (Kew Distrib.), No. 385. Penang: Curtis, 
Nos. 912, 957. Perak : King’s Collector, Scortechini. 
This species has smaller leaves and different cymes from L. secun - 
diflora , but the flowers of the two are very much alike. 
15. Gonocaryum, Miq. 
Trees. Leaves alternate, simple, penni-nerved, coriaceous. Flowers 
in long axillary spikes, dimorphous. Calyx of 5 free, ovate, imbricate 
sepals. Corolla much longer than the calyx, gamopetalous, tubular, 
with 5 acute spreading short teeth, slightly inflexed at the very apex, 
and valvate in {estivation. Stamens 5, alternate with the teeth of the 
corolla, the filaments adherent to its tube, free only towards the apex ; 
anthers sub-exserted, alternate with the teeth, oblong, bilocular, dehis¬ 
cing longitudinally. Ovary ellipsoid, seated on the glabrous annular 
disk, minute, bilocular, the cells (unequal?), uniovulate, the ovule 
pendulous. Style 1, very short, the stigma apical. Drupe dry, spongy, 
4-gonous, ridged, narrowed to each end, crowned by the small incurved 
style and stigma ; the calyx persistent at its base but not enlarged, 2-cell- 
ed, the obsolete second cell being represented by a cylindrical cavity in the 
spongy mesocarp ; the epicarp membranous, sub-glabrous in its upper 
half, puberulous towards the apex ; endocarp papery, with a few minute 
