120 G. King— Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No 1, 
122) follows Scheffer, adopts his modified definition of Gonocaryum, and 
adds two new species viz. , G. Selebicuni , and (at p. 256), G. affine. In 
my opinion Gonocaryum and Phlebocalymna are not identical. 
The flowers of the two species P. Grifithiana and P. Lobbianum 
(which are accepted as constituting the genus Phlebocalymna ) have the 
calyx gamosepalous, deeply 5-lobed, the petals only twice as long as the 
calyx, fleshy, cohering by their edges, but quite separable from each 
other, their apices fleshy and indexed ; the buds being shortly cylindrical 
and obtuse, and the fruit elliptic (not 4-gonous), slightly striate, obtuse 
at each end with a bony (not spongy) and strictly 1-celled endocarp, and 
there being no trace whatever of an abortive loculus. If the defini¬ 
tion of the genus Phlebocalymna be amended in these particulars to it cer¬ 
tainly belongs G. pyriforme , Selieff. And, judging from the description, 
(for I have not seen specimens) G. Teysmannianum Scheff. and G. Selebi 
Becc., with almost equal certainty belong to Gonocaryum. About the 
allocation of G. afine, Becc., the description in Malesia I, 256, is too 
incomplete to enable me to form an opinion. 
Racemes 5 to 12 in. in length, flowers 
'2 in. long. ... ... ... 1. G. longe-racemosum. 
Racemes under 3 in. long: flowers T in. long 2. G. gracile. 
1. Gonocaryum longe-racemosum, King, n. sp. A small glabrous 
tree. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, shortly acuminate, the base 
slightly narrowed ; main nerves about 4 pairs, ascending, prominent on 
the lower, depressed on the upper surface, length 5 to 7 in., breadth 225 
to 35 in., petiole *3 to *5 in. Racemes axillary or from the stem and 
larger branches, puberulous, slender, 5 to 12 in. long. Flowers *2 in. 
long, irregularly disposed on the rachis, sometimes in pairs ; their pedi¬ 
cels T in. long, pubescent. Sepals 5, ovate, imbricate, puberulous. 
Corolla tubular, the teeth small and recurved. Fruit obovoid-elliptic, 
with 4 very bold vertical ridges and numerous striee, 1*5 to 2 in. long, 
and 1 in. in diam., glabrescent; mesocarp very thick, spongy, distinctly 
2-celled, the aborted cell narrowly cylindric. 
Singapore ; Hullett, No. 851; Ridley, No. 4750. Perak; King’s 
Collector, Nos. 7397, 7663 ; Scortechini. 
2. Gonocaryum gracile, Miq. FI. Ind, Bat. Suppl. 343. A shrub P 
Leaves as in the last, but slightly obovate. Racemes under 3 in. in 
length, and the flowers only about *1 in. long, fruit 1*5 in. long. Kurz 
in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. for 1875, II, 155 ; For. Flora Burma, I, 240. 
G. Wallichii, Mast. FI. Br. Ind. I, 590; Beccari, Malesia, I, 122; 
Valeton Olacineee, 245 : Platea Grifithiana , Miers Contrib. I, 97, ( not 
Phlebocalymna , Griff). Gonocaryum? Wallichii , Mast, in Hook. til. 
FI. Br. Ind. I, 590 (note). 
