360 MERRILL. 
Twelve of the seventeen species below enumerated from the Philip- 
pines, are endemic in the Archipelago, while one, Gardnia mangostana 
Linn., is undoubtedly an importation from western Malaya. Five species 
are described as new and four are credited to the Philippines for the 
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first time. 
KEY TO Tin; SPECIES. 
Flowers 5-merous (Xaxtitochymus) . 
Inflorescence terminal, cymose 1- ^- '^*<^«^" 
Inflorescence axillary, fasciculate. 
Leaves broad and rounded at the apex; flowers subsessile.... 2. G. suhellipiica 
Leaves more or less acuminate at the apex. 
Rudimentary ovary in the male flowers none; staminal phalanges free; 
flowers long-pedicelled -"- 3- "• "W**^^^ 
Eudiniontary ovary present in the male flowers, the staminal phalanges con- 
nate with it; flowers sessile or very shortly pedicellate. 
4. G. mosellcyana 
Flowers 4-merous (Eugarcinia) . 
Stamens of the male flowers many, occupying both sides of four pedicelled 
phalanges; anthers sessile, 2-ceUed, dehiscing longitudinally. 
Flowers in short axillary cymes 5- G- luzomensis 
Flowers in axillary fascicles. 
Leaves short-rostrate; nerves very numerous, slender, spreading, distinct. 
6. G. engcniaefolia 
Leaves acuminate, not rostrate; nerves obscure, distant, ascending. 
7. G. dives 
Stamens of the male flower in a 4-lobed mass surrounding the rudimentary 
ovary. 
Rudimentary ovary sessile; flowers large; fruit dark-purple, edible. The 
mangosteen 8. G. mangostana 
Rudimentary ovary more or less peduncled; flowers rnedium; fruit green or 
yellowish .: 9. G- henthami 
Stamens of the male flower many, in a single unlobed mass; anthers 2-cellud, 
dehiscing longitudinally. 
Rudimentary ovary wanting in the male flower 10. G. cumingiana 
Rudimentary ovary present. 
Some flowers with petaloid staminodes 11. G^. calleryt 
Flowers without staminodes , 12. G. venulosa 
Stamens 4 to 14; anthers dehiscing longitudinally; rudimentary ovary none. 
Lateral nerves about 40 on each side of the midrib, dense; stamens 4, 
13. G. tetrandra 
Lateral nerves 10 to 20 on each side of the midrib, rarely more, distant. 
Lateral nerves about 12; stamens 4 14. G. ruhra 
Lateral nerves about 20; stamens 8 to 14 15. G. Unucao 
Stamens many, united into a globose mass; dehiscence of the anther-cells 
circumscissile; rudimentary ovary none. 
Anther-cells peltate...., '. 16. G. mindanaemis 
Anther-cells not peltate , 17. G. lateriflora 
1. Garcinia vidalii sp. nov. § Xanthochymus, 
Garcinia ovalifolia Vidal Sinopsis Atlas (1883) t. 11, f. A, non Hook. f. & Th. 
Garcinia sp. Vidal Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. (1886) 53. 
