152 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peni7isula. 



sides of 4 thick fleshy processes ; cells 2, orbicular-oblong seated on 

 the apex of the thick connective, dehiscing along the convexity ; stigma 

 very large, discoid, smooth, depressed in the centi'e, covering the 

 stamens. Hermaphrodite flowers in 3-flo\vered, axillary, solitary, sessile, 

 bracteolate cymes ; sepals as in tlie male ; petals 4, orbicular-reniforra, 

 not covering the stigma, otherwise as in the male ; anthers in 4 masses 

 as in the male, 4-celled; siJig^wa sub-sessile, covering the whole ovary, 

 large, discoid, smooth, entire. Fruit solitary, or 2 or 3 from an axil, 

 ovoid, sub-orbicular, '5 to '65 in. long and rather less in diam., smooth, 

 crowned by the discoid sub-concave stigma, Pierre Fl. Forest. Coch- 

 Chine, fasc. VI, p. v, tab. 91, B. Discostigma rostratum, Hassk. Cat. PI. 

 Hat. Bogor. 213. Hook, fih Journ. Linn. Soc. XIV, 486. 



Malacca ; Grriffiti), No. 855, Maingay 156. Perak ; Scortechini 1962, 

 King's Collector Nos. 8486, 10762. Distrib. Java. 



This is readily distinguished by its small flowers on slender pedicels, 

 and by its flattened buds ; also by the sub-horizontal, close, rather 

 distinct, venation of the leaves. 



4. Garcinia cuspidata, King, n. sp. A tree 60 to 70 feet iiigh ; the 

 young branches terete, dark-coloured. Leaves elliptic-ovate, shortly 

 sub-spathulate, cuspidate, the base narrowed ; upper surface shining, 

 the lower dull; nerves sub-horizontal, distinct beneath when dr}^ '1 in. 

 apart, anastomosing with an intramarginal nerve ; length 2"5 to 3"25 in., 

 breadth 1"I to 1"5 in., petiole '3 in. jUaZe //oi<^e?-s '15 in. in diam., in 

 shortly pedunculate, axillai-y, 6 to 9-flowered, spreading cymes ; buds 

 pyriform ; pedicels slender, '3 to "6 long; sepals 4i, equal, reflexed, or- 

 bicular, thin, concave ; petals 4, reflexed, covering the stamens and 

 stigma in bud, thin, orbicular, concave, a little larger than the sepals; 

 stamens numerous, on both sides of 4 fleshy processes, filaments very 

 short and thick; anthers with 1 globular cells, each dehiscing by a long 

 vertical suture ; style short, cjliudric ; stigma capitate, small, quite 

 concealed by the starainal musses. Female flowers and fruit unknown. 



Perak, at low elevations ; King's Collector, No. 10865. 



Collected only once by the late Mr. Kunstler. Tiie leaves a good 

 deal resemble those of G. rostrata, Hassk.; but the nerves are slightly 

 more distinct, and the flowers have a different androecium, although 

 externally they much resemble those of G. rostrata, Hassk. 



5. GrAUCiNiA Wrayi, King, n. sp. A small spi^eading tree; young 

 branches very slender, terete, dirty yellow. Leaves thinly coriaceous, 

 ovate or elliptic, the apex produced into a long sub-spathulate point, 

 the base cuneate ; upper surface shining, the lower dull, pale; nerves 

 slender, sub-horizontal, '05 in. apart, invisible on the upper and faint 

 on the lower surface even when dry ; length 2 to 2*5 in., of which 



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