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XXIII. QUTTiFERA'. (T. Andersoii,) 



[Garcinia. 



Eastern Peninsula; in dense woods from Mergui to Malacca. 



A small tree or shrub, young branches sub-4-gonal. Leaves 2-4 by 1-1| in., thinly 

 coriaceous; veins below very close set, delicate, ending in a stout intramarginal one; 

 petiole ^-J in. Male fl. numerous; cymes J-Jin. long; pedicels \ in., 4-gonal^^^ Outer 



sepals small, bract-like ; inner 



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thin, membranous, concave. Fetah lite the 



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inner sepals, concave. Stamens many, in 4 distinct bundles, each bearing a head ol 

 anthers on short filaments ; anthers small, 2-celled. Eudimentary stigma large fungoid ; 

 style equalling the staminal bundles. Female fl. on pedicels ^-1 in. Fruit J-J in< 

 long, oblong, fleshy. /Seerf solitary, subreniform. 



^ 25. G. travancorica, Beddome Flar. Sylvat. t. 173 : leaves 2 2-32 in. 

 linear- oblong, tip rounded, base acute, nerves very slender norizontal, surrace 

 finely reticulated beneath between them, petiole slender, flowers \ in. diam. 

 Garcinia, sp. 2, Beddome Flor, Sylvat, Gen. xxi. 



Westkrn Peninsula, in forests of Travancor and Tinnivelly, Beddome. v* * » 



A large tree, abounding in a yellow pigment; branches obtusely 4-anglea, shining. 

 Leaves coriaceous, sometimes broader upwards, dark green above, not shmmgi P ^ 

 beneath, with a stout reddish (when dry) midrib, and beautifully reticulated surlace , 

 margins recurved ; petiole \-% in. Male fl. in 3-chotomous, short, few flowered terminal 

 and subterminal cymes. Sepals orbicular, concave. Petals about twice as '^^^S^'^ ^^^Hs 

 clawed. Stamens in 4 large masses ; anthers very numerous, versatile, 2-cellea,^ ^ 

 longitudinally 2-valved. Budimentary ovary columnar, with a circular peltate ^^^»!|* ' 

 Female fl. terminal, subsolitary. Perianth of the male. Staminodes few, ^^^"^'^^^^ 

 inserted in a hypogynous ring. Ovary globose, half concealed by the large ^^^^^^^ 

 obscurely lobed stigma. Fruit as large as a walnut, subglobose, contracted into » ^ ^ 

 thick style with a broad imbricate stigma i in. diam. Seeds few, large, shmmg. 

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26. G. terpnophylla, Thwaites Enum. 406 ; leaves lanceolate a?^*f ?J 

 acuminate with an obtuse tij), flowers axillary, male in short s^'^^J?^ i^ 

 fascicles^ females solitary or in pairs. Beddome FUyr. Sylvat (r^* ^ ^ 

 Terpnopbyllum zeylanicum, Thwaites in Hook. Lond. Journ. J^\.\: 

 70, t. 2, f. 1, Enum. 49. Discostigma zeylanicum, Planch. <& Ti^^- ^^\ 

 Guttif. 209. 



Central province of Ceylon, ascending to 4000 ft., Thioaites. , . ^^^yg; 



A middle-sized tree, young foliage red-purple. Leaves 3-5 by 1-1 i in> ^^^'^g,\ one! 

 midrib prominent, veins ^ in. apart, inarching at the tips with an intramargm ■ 



Male fl. J in diam. ; pedicels J in. Stavims many, in 4 [2-4 Beddome] ^.^^^^^^.y 

 spreading bundles, adnate to the basal keel of the petals ; anthers sessile. ^V^^^^i^i^ 

 ovary a small papilla. Female fl. : Staminodes scale-like. Ovary 2-cellea, ^ b^^ 

 peltate, partially lobed. Fruit | in. long, obliquely ovoid, 1-celled, V^^^J^J^^gectioB, 

 flower I have examined the stamens are in 4 equal bundles, as in its allies ot tn 

 and not on a lobed disk as represented in Journ. Hot. I.e. 



Var. acuminatum; leaves with a long tapering obtuse point. 



natura, Planch. <& Trian, Mem. Guttif. 209. 



27. a. eugcnlaefolia, Wall. Cat. 4873 ; leaves broadly l/^^^^^* ^Cm- 

 or acuminate, male flowers in short dense axillary cymes, females » 

 belled. 



Eastern Peninsula; Sincapore, Wallich (7491); Malacca, Griffith, Mamg^y-^^^^^ 

 A small tree very like O. mtraaense, but with large broader leaves, finely » .^ ^^^^ 

 veined beneath like a Calophyllum. Male fl. as in merguense but smalAerj^^^^ . ^^ 

 dense cymes. Staminal bundles distinct, suberect, free part of filaments very s ;^^gj 



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StamiTiodes ? Ovary shortfterete; stigma broad, peltate with revolute *^^^j,^i^ 

 gius.— I cannot agree with Triana and Planchon in referring Discostigma r 



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thers very small. Style slender, as long as the stamens* Female fl. iQ 

 flliort subumbelled cymes. Sepals minute, scale-like. Petals ?"^*^*®^',°f^nti 



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