170 



XVIir. GUTTIFER.E. 



[Garcima. 



flowers "15 in. wide in axillary cymes of 3 to 6 flowers; pedicels 

 •2 in. long. Sepals 4, outer ones ovate orbicular, inner ones 

 orbicular. Petals 4 orbicular. Anthers on both sides of 4 fleshy 

 processes. Rudimentary style cylindric long. Stigma discoid. 

 In bisexual flowers the petals are orbicular reniform, and the 

 stigma is sessile large convex. In female flowers there are no 

 staminodes, the stigma hemispheric. Fruit globular '75 in. wide 

 covered by the concave smooth stigma. Hab. Common all over 



Fig. 19. — Garcinia merguensis. 



the peninsula up to 4500 ft. altitude. Malacca. Pahang. Perak. 

 Singapore. Johor. Penang, road to Waterfall (Curtis). Province 

 Wellesley. Lankawi Islands. Disirib. Tenasserim and Cambodia. 

 Use : This yields the Malay varnish, Getah Lull ( Wray) . Native 

 name : Lulai. 



(4) G. lanceolata Ridl. n. sp. 



Small tree. Leaves lanceolate acuminate blunt, base cuneate; 

 nerves over 20 pairs very fine and inconspicuous, 3 in. long, "75 in 

 wide; petioles -i in. long. Male flowers 3 together in very shortly 

 peduncled cymes; pedicels "i in. long. Sepals orbicular -j in. 



