i8o XVIII. GUTTiFEiLE. [Garcmia. 



(35) G. Prainiana King, I.e. 171. 



A stout cylindric tree about 30 ft. tall. Branchlets not angled. 

 Leaves deep green coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, narrowed to the 

 rounded or cordate base ; nerves 12 to 15 pairs inarching near edge, 

 rather prominent, 4-5 to 9 in. long, 175 to 4 in. wide; petioles 

 •25 in. long, stout. Male flowers -4 in. across in dense 6- to 12- 

 flowered terminal cymes. Bracts lanceolate keeled. Sepals 5 

 orbicular, fleshy. Petals 5 sub-orbicular pink. Stamens in a 

 5-lobed ring 2-celled. Pistillode globose. Fruit globose flat- 

 topped fleshy yellow, 2 in. through. Stigma smooth concave, 

 sessile. Seeds flat with sweet pulp. Hab. In Campongs and 

 orchards. Perak, Kwala Dipang, Pahang, Temerloh and Pahang 

 River. Native names : Cherapu ; Chupu ; Chekow ; Menchepu . 

 Use : Fruit eaten like mangosteens. 



Female flowers not seen. 



(36) G. pyrifera Ridl. Journ. Roy. As. Soc. S. Br. 73, p. 141. 



A tree. Branchlets yellow angled. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic, 

 sub-acute shortly narrowed at the base ; nerves very numerous 

 horizontal, meeting in an intra-marginal nerve close to the edge, 

 very fine, margin not thickened, 3-5 to 5*5 in. long, 175 to 2*25 in. 

 wide ; petioles very stout wrinkled '5 in. long. Male flowers 

 unknown. Females solitary, axillary, from tubercles covered with 

 short ovate bracts. Fruit obovoid-pear-shaped, yellow, 2 '5 to 

 3 in. through, on a 175-in. long peduncle. Sepals small ovate. 

 Stigma small 5-lobed, lobes rounded. Seeds 2 or 3 reniform 

 brown, i in. long, '2$ in. wide. Hab. Penang, Penara Bukit 

 (Curtis 3094). 



Near but distinct from G, densiflora. 



2. OCHROCARPUS, Thouars. 



Trees with stiff coriaceous leaves. Flowers in fascicles on the 

 branches. Calyx closed before flowering opening into 2 sepals. 

 Petals 4 to 7. Stamens indefinite ; filaments filiform. Ovary 

 2-celled; ovules 2 in a cell; style short stout. Stigma 3-lobed. 

 Berry i- to 4-seeded. Seeds large. Species 4 or 5, Africa, 

 Madagascar, India, Siam. 



(i) O. siamensis T. Anders. F.B.I, i. 270. 



Leaves oblong-lanceolate shortly blunt-acuminate ; main nerves 

 very inconspicuous, very finely and conspicuously reticulate all 

 over, 7 in. long, 2 in. wide; petioles thick yellow 75 in. long. 

 Flowers i or 2 together "5 in. across, white fragrant. Berry fusi- 

 form about I in. long narrowed to both ends with persistent cori- 

 aceous sepals at base. Hab. Langkawi, Burau (Robinson). Distrib. 

 Pegu and Siam. 



