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coriaceous subacute rounded or cordate at the base, nerves numerous strong, 

 flowers large, fascicled, pedicels very stout long, sepals pubescent. 



Eastern Peninsula; Malacca, Griffith, Vittoml ("Koondon Belookar"), Maingay 

 (Kew distrib. 157, G. macrophyUa, T. And. ms.) 



Braiichlets as thick as tlie midJIe finger, acutely 4-angled, almost winged when dij 

 green. Leaves by far the largest of the genus, ofien 2 ft. by 9 in., very variable in 

 breadth, nerves very numerous and prominent, meeting in a strciig intramarginal one, 

 interspaces reticulate; petiole 1-2 in., very stout. Male fl. unknown. Fem. n. | in- 

 diAni., in axillary many-flowereJ faecicles ; pedicels very stout, 2 in., seated on a sub- 

 globose axillary cushion. Sepals 5, intricate, leathery, orbicular, concave, two outer ^ 

 smaller, all minutely pubescent at the back. Petals three times as large as^ the sepals, 

 orbicular, concave, contorted in bud. Disk very large, of 5 thick fleshy pitted ciliate 

 glands, between each of which is a minute starainode with about 5 imperlect anthers. 

 Ovary globose, narrowed into a distinct style, 4-5-celled ; stigma cleft to the base into 

 4-5 linear-oblonsr obtuse rays. *' Fruit very large, pomiform, crowned by the ^^^o?^^' 

 normally 5-celled," Maingay. — This -Rpecies was incompletely characterized by i^r. 

 Anderson from Griffith's specimens under the mss. name of Garciniaf macrophyllar 

 have now redescribed it from Maingay's more complete specimens, and in so doing give 

 the name of my late friend the monographer of the Indian Guttiferae to what is certain J 

 by far the noblest species of the genus. Griffith in his notes attached to the specimen, 

 describes the perianth as 4-merous, but 1 find it is always 5-merous. — J. D- -H* 



Doubtful Species. 

 G. succiFOLiA, Kurz in Joum. Beng. As. Soc. xli. pt. 2, of which the fenaale flower 

 and fruit are not known. It is a native of Martaban. > 



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Trees with coriaceous leaves and axillary polygamous flowers 

 closed before flowering, at length opening into 2, rarely 3, valves or s^l*^'^' 

 Petals 4-7 or more. JStamens indetinitc, filaments filiform, free or shortly 

 connate below ; anthers erect, oblong or linear, dehiscence vertical. ^J'^^^ 

 2-celled ; style short, stout, stigma 3-lobed ; ovules 2 in each cell. J>^^[^ 

 1'4-seeded. Seeds large ; embryo of a large fleshy tigellus with the cotyleQ; 

 reduced to a small mamilla or 0.— Distkib. A small genus of vV. M" | 

 ^Madagascar, and India, 



1. 6. lonsrifoUus, Benth. ^. HooL /. Gen. Fl. i. 980; leaves lineal^ 

 oblong or oblong-lanceolate obtuse, pedicels fascicled, petals acute, ^^^{l^.^ 

 Fhr. Sylvat t. 89. Calysaccion longifolium, Wight lU. i. 130, Tf. t. iy^^ 

 ilammea lon^ifolia, Flaiich, <k Trian. Mem. Guttif. 216. C'dhvf^J. 

 longifolium, Wall. Cat. 4851. C. chinense Walp. ? exSeemann in Bonpiana^ 



Forests of the Westeux Peninsula fnmi Canara to the Concan. 6 8 bj 



■ A middling-sized tree ; yo-.ing brancheslercte, youngest 4-gonons. -^^^^'^.'iw 

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2-24 in., thickly coriaceous, dark green, base rounded, midrib stout F<>"^"^^" V'Tjeaf * 

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 oiten hermaphrodite in cultivation, and used for dyeinfi: silk. — Beddo^me.] .1^ ;j^1 ,. 



2. O. siamensis, T.Anders,; leaves linear-oblong or oblong-1^^^^^^^ 

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