Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 157 



Bnrm. I, 87; Lanessan Mem. Garcin. 15; Pierre Flor. Forest. Cocliin- 

 Cliine t. 64. 



Wild and cultivated in the Malayan Peninsula and Archipelago ; 

 cultivated also in Burma, Ceylon and a few places in the S. of India. 



12. Garcinia microstigma, Kurz, Journ. Bot. 1875, p. 324 ; For. 

 Flora Burmah, I, 91. A shrub 4 to 6 feet high ; young braDches ob- 

 scurely 4-angled, the bark dark-coloured. Leaves elliptic to elliptic-ob- 

 long or lanceolate, sub-acute, the base cuneate ; rather dull on both 

 surfaces when dry, the midrib distinct beneath ; main nerves 7 to 8 

 pairs, tliin, interarching "1 to '2 in. from tlie margin ; length 3 to 4 in., 

 breadth 1'5 to 2'3 in., petiole "5 to "75 in. Male flowers "3 in. in diam., 

 in 2 to 3-flowered, few bracteoled, axillary cymes ; buds globose; pedi- 

 cels "2 to 25 in. long; sepals 4, the outer pair ovate-acute, fleshy, keel- 

 ed, the edges thin, longer than the inner obovate-orbicular, very con- 

 cave, thinner pair ; petals 4, obovate-orbicular, fleshy, concave, about 

 the same size as the inner sepals and barely covering the stamens ; stamens 

 about 20, on a single convex receptacle, filaments short ; anthers red, 

 bi'oadly ovate, 2-celled, the dehiscence longitudinal ; rudy. stigma 0. 

 Female flowers (fide Kurz) on shorter pedicels than the male and pro- 

 bably solitary, terminal. Fruit globose, 15 to 2 in. in diam. the 

 pericarp smooth, tliin, red, the sepals persistent at its base, and its 

 apex bearing the very minute discoid sessile entire stigma; seeds 2 or 

 more. Pierre Fl. Forest. Coch-Chine, fasc. VI, p. xix. 



South Andaman ; Kurz. 



13. Gakcixia Penangiana, Pierre Fl. Forest. Cochin-Chine, fasc. 

 VI. p. xxxvii, No. 46a. A slender tree 20 to 30 feet high ; the young 

 branches glossy, pale brown when dry, slightly 4-angled. Leaves ob- 

 long-lanceolate, shortly and rather bluntly acuminate, the base cuneate; 

 upper surface shining, the lower slightly dull and paler, both, (but especi- 

 ally the lower) with a reddish tint when dry; the midrib stout; nerves 

 close, straight, sub-horizontal, faintly visible ; length 4-.5 to 7 in., 

 breadth 1*5 to 25, or even 3 in. ; petiole '5 in. or less. Male flowers 1 

 in. in diam., in terminal fascicles of 3 to 6, pedicels about -5 in. Sepah 

 4 ; the outer pair rotund, fleshy, very concave ; the inner pair larger, 

 thinner, elliptic, obtuse. Petals 4, rather longer than the inner sepals, 

 oblong, blunt, creamy-white. Stamens indefinite, the filaments united 

 in a slightly 4-lobed short fleshy mass ; anthers short, broad, with 

 longitudinal dehiscence ; pistil 0. Female flowers terminal, solitary, 

 larger than the male and on shorter stouter peduncles. Style short, 

 thick; ovary globular; the stigma lar^e, convex, hemispherical, corru- 

 gated and deeply 4-lobed ; stamens none. Ripe fruit globular, more 

 than 1-75 in. in diam., crowned by the persistent stigma, the thickened 



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