Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Penin^nda. 151 



pale brown, the midrib distinct on botli ; nerves indistinct, thin, spread- 

 ing, about "075 in. apart ; length 3 to 3"5 in., breadth 1"J to 1'4 in., 

 petiole "25 in. Male flowers '15 in. in diam., in rather dense axillary 

 minutely bracteolate 3- to 6-flowered cymes longer than the petioles ; 

 pedicels 2 in., buds globose ; sepals 4, fleshy, the outer pair small, ovate- 

 oibicular, sub-acute ; the inner pair oibicular, all concave ; petals 4, 

 orbicular, fleshy, concave, covering tlie stigma in bud ; anthers numerous 

 on both sides of 4 fleshy processes, sessile, oblong, dehiscing sutnrally ; 

 rudy. style long, cylindric, thick ; stigma discoid, smooth, flat. Herma- 

 phrodite flowers ; sepals 4), the outer pair as in the male ovate-oi-bicular, 

 thin ; petals 4, orbicular-reniform, flesliy, not covering the stigraa ; 

 stamens numerous on both sides of 4 triangular fleshy processes ; 

 anthers sessile, sab-orbicular, dehiscing vertically by the sutures ; 

 stigma sessile, very large, hemispheric, convex, smooth, covering the 

 anthers when young. Female jioioers ; sepals 4, the outer pair much 

 smaller than tlie inner, all thin and concave ; petals 4, orbicular, about 

 the same size as the inner sepals, concave, thinly coriaceous, with a 

 thickened coloured patcli at the base ; staminoties and disc ; stigma 



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semi-hemispheric, almost covering the whole ovary. Fruit pedicelled, 

 globular, "75 in. in diam., smooth, covered by the concave smooth 

 stigma. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 267 ; Kurz Fl. Burm., I, 89; Pierre 

 Flora Forest. Coch-Chin. fasc. YI, p. vi, tab. 68, 69, 91, D. 



Malncca ; Gi'ifiith, Miungay, No. 155, Kew Distiib. Perak ; Scor- 

 techini Nos. 244ri and 812, King's Collector, No. 2660, Wray, 1075. 

 Penang ; Curtis, No. 900. 



Maingay No. 155 is the type of Pierre's species G. fulva, but, in 

 Bpite of very careful dissection of many of the flowers of this most 

 puzzling plant, I cannot see my way to adopting that as a species 

 separable from 6. meryuensis^ Wight. 



3. Garcinia rostrata, Benth. and Hook fil. Gen. Plantar. I, 174. 

 A tree 30 to 40 feet high. Young branches terete, pale, slender. Leaves 

 thinly coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, with a rather short blunt acumen, 

 the base much narrowed ; both surfaces shining, the lower rather pale, 

 midrib prominent ; nerves very numerous, thin, sub-horizontal, rather 

 distinct when dry, especially on the lower surface ; length 2'5 to 35 in., 

 breadth 1"25 to 175 in., petiole 2 in. Male flowers "15. in. in diam., in 

 slender, pedunculate, lax, often dichotomons, 3- to 9-flowered cymes which 

 are in fascicles of 2 to 4 in the axils of the leaves ; buds depressed- 

 globose, '1 in. in diam. ; the pedicels '25 to '35 in., slender ; sepals 4, 

 orbicular, concave, the outer pair small, fleshy, the inner thin as large as 

 the petals ; petals 4, orbicular, concave, thin, each with a fleshy coloured 

 circular patch near its base ; stamens numerous; anthers sessile, on both 



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