150 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Sub-genus II. Xanthochtmd3. 



Sepals and petals 5, all imbrloate ,.. sjyecies 31 to 36. 



Sub-genus I. Garoinia proper, sepals 4, decussate ; petals 4, im- 

 cats. 



1. Garcinia EUGENiiEFOLiA, Wall. Cat. 4873. A small treejtlie 

 young branches thin, 4-atigled, lather pale when dry. Leaves sub-coria- 

 ceous, elliptic, tapering fco each end, tlia apex with a slioi't blunt tail ; 

 upper surface shining ; the lower dull, pale, opaque ; nerves thin, spread- 

 ing, less than "l in. apart, very indistinct on either surface ; length 2 to 

 3'5 in., breadth '9 to 135 in., petiole "2 to '25 in. Male Jloivers '2 in. in 

 diam., in axillary or terminal, minutely bracteate, 3-to 6-flowered fas- 

 cicles ; pedicels '3 in. long. Sepals 4, orbicular, the outer pair small, 

 the inner pair as large as the petals. Petals 4, orbicular, thin with a 

 circular thickened coloured fleshy spot near the base ; Stamens numer- 

 ous, forming with the rudy. stigma a dense convex mass ; anthers nu- 

 merous, on both sides of 4 fleshy processes, orbicular-oblong, 2-celled, 

 the dehiscence vertical ; rudy. stigma large, hemispheric, the stjle 

 cylindric. Female flotver ; '25 in. in diam., in pedunculate 3-flowered 

 cymes, sometimes several from same axil, pedicles '25 to "35 iu. Sepals 4i; 

 the outer pair small, fleshy, ovate-orbicular ; the inner pair thin, nearly 

 aa large as the petals, slightly keeled at the base ; petals as in the malo ; 

 Staminodes and disc absent. Stigma large, liemisplierTc, sub-papillose, 

 entii-e, covering nearly the whole of the ovary. Fruit in fascicles of 2 to 

 4, globular, '7b in, in diam., smooth, brown, crowned by the papillo.^e 

 stigma ; clayx not persistent. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 268 ; Pierre Fl. 

 Forest. Coch-Chine, fasc. VI, p. vi, in part; 0. brevirostris, Scheff. Obs. 

 Phyt. II, 41. 



Penang; Wallich, Curtis, No. 669. Tonasserim and Andaraans ; 

 Heifer, 855. Perak ; King's Collector Nos. 8604, 5954, Wray No. 461. 



There are two spcjciinens in the Calcutta Herbarium of G. breviros- 

 tris, Scheffer, named by the author himself ; and they agree absolutely 

 with Wallich's No. 4873. This species is tpiite distinct from Griflith's 

 No. 858 (Kew Dist.) from Malacca, which Pierre not only reduces here, 

 but of which he figures (tab. 90 E. F.) the flowers as the flowers of this. 

 This species does not ap{)ear to be a common one. Specimens of other 

 things appear to have been so much confounded with it, that I forbear 

 to quote more synonyms than G. brevirostris. 



2. Garcinia mekguensis, Wight 111. 122, Ic. 116. A tree 30 to 40 

 40 feet high ; young branches thin, terete, dark brown when dry. 

 Leaves ovate-elliptic to lanceolate, bluntly caudate-acuminate, the base 

 cuneate ; upper surface when dry shining, dark brown ; the lower dull 



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