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4, orbicular, fleshy, concave, the outer pair rather smaller than the 

 inner. Petals 4, larger than the sepals, ovate-orbicular, fleshy, concave. 

 Stame7is very numerous, forming with the rudimentary pistil a dense 

 globular mass ; the filaments slender, in several rows from a stipitato 

 fleshy receptacle ; anthers oblong, curved, 2-celled, with extrorse longi- 

 tudinal dehiscence ; rudy. pistil cylindric, with a broad discoid stigma. 

 Female flotoers solitary, terminal, sub-sessile; sepals and petals as in the 

 male but smaller ; staminodes few, slender ; ovari/ globose 4- to 6-celled ; 

 tlie stigma large, convex papillose, entire or very slightly 4-lobed. 

 Fruit globular, 2 to 2'5 in. in diam. when quite ripe ; crowned by the 

 large, flat, discoid, papillose, slightly 4-lobed stigma. Pierre Flore 

 Coch. -Chine, fasc. VI, p. xvii. 



Perak ; common. Malacca; Maingay (Kew Dist. 160 and 161). 

 Paugkore ; Curtis No. 1610. 



In Scortechini's fleld-note on this species, the young branches are 

 described as terete ; but, iu the dried state, they are distinctly 4- 

 angled. 



Var. stylosa ; stigma on a thick style "3 in. long. 

 Perak. King's Collector, No. 5359. 



Only specimens with immature fruit are known, but these differ 

 from the typical form in no respect except the stout style. 



16. Garcinia ATROViRiDis, Griff. MSS. A graceful tree 40 to 60 feet 

 high ; the young branches rather thick, sub-terete, yellowish-grey when 

 dry. Leaves coriaceous, both surfaces shining ; narrowly oblong, very 

 BJiortly but sharply acuminate, the base cuneate ; nerves numerous, spread- 

 ing, straight, indistinct when fresh, but rather distinct when dry, anas- 

 tomosing "05 to "1 in. from the edge with a fine intra-marginal nerve ; 

 length 4-5 to 8 in., breadth 1*25 to 2 in., petiole, '6 to "75 in. Male flowers 

 1'25 in. in diam., in terminal clusters of few-flowered cymes, pedicels un- 

 fqual, from "25 in. to '75 in., long. Sepals 4, fleshy, concave ; the outer 

 pair orbicular or transversely oblong; the inner pair broadly oblong or 

 orbicular, fleshy with thin edges, larger than the outer pair, streaked 

 witli red inside. Petals 4, orbicular-obovate, concave, flesh}^ larger 

 than the sepals, red. Stamens very numerous, forming with the large 

 convex rudimentary stigma a globose mass ; filaments slender, nearly 

 as long as the anthers, inserted in whorls on a thin annular fleshy recep- 

 tacle ; anthers narrowly oblong, 2-celled, extrorse, the dehiscence longi- 

 tudinal. Rudy, style cylindric. Female Jlnivers termini,], HoV\t{iry,rcire\y 

 geminate; sepals and petals as in the male, but the petals smaller ; 

 staminodes small, attached to a thin fleshy Avavy annulus which sur- 

 rounds the ribbed, sub-cylindric, 12- to 16-celled ovary. Stigma thick, 

 flesliy, very convex, pileate, deep red, the edges undulate. Fruit ( fide 



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