160 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Scorfcechini) globular, 3 in, in diam. yellowisli-green, crowned by the 

 sessile, concave, ribbed stigtna. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 266; Pierre 

 Fl. Coch.-Chine, fasc. VI, p, xxiv, tab. 80, fig. C. 



Malacca ; Maingay ( Kew Dist. No. 154.) Perak ; Scortecliini, Wray. 

 Wellesley Province, King's Collector. Penang, Curtis, No, 855. 



According to Mr. Curtis, the fruit is eaten by the Malays in curries, 

 and the tree is a very handsome one with pendulous branches, 1 have 

 not seen fully ripe fruit, and the above description of it is taken from 

 Fr. Scortecbini's field notes. 



17. Garcinia opaca. King. A tree 40 to 60 feet high ; the branchlets 

 when dry dull dirty yellow, striate. Leaves oblong, narrowed at each 

 end, tlie apex sometimes shortly acuminate, the base cuueate ; upper sur- 

 face slightly shining, lower surface opaque, whitish ; the leather numer- 

 ous nearly horizontal nerves thin, little visible on either surface, the 

 midrib bold and prominent on both ; length 4 to 5 in., breadth r75 to 

 2"25 in., petiole "6 in. Male flowers '75 in. in diam., in shortly pedicelled, 

 2- to 3-flowered, ebracteolate, terminal or axillary cymes; pedicels "25 

 in., annulated ; sepals 4i, obovate, concave, thin, veined ; petals 4, 

 similar to the sepals but a little larger ; stamens numerous, on a single, 

 convex, fleshy receptacle ; anthers sessile, depressed-globular, with cir- 

 cumscissile dehiscence; rudy. stigma 0. Female flowers 8o\ita,ry, termi- 

 nal ; sepals more coriaceous than those of the male flower ; staminodes 

 ; ovary cylindric ; stigma convex, smooth, the edge irregularly sub- 

 crenate. Fruit solitary, terminal, ovate-globose, slightly mammillfite, 

 crowned by the broad flat stigma which has 4 broad shallow rounded 

 lobes; the sepals rounded, cartilaginous, persistent; pericarp bi'own 

 when dry, thin, crustaceous. Seeds several, ovoid, flattened on one side. 

 G. cornea, Wall. Cat. 4852 E. 



Perak ; King's Collector, Scortecliini. 



Distinguished by its opaque leaves whitish beneath and with faint 

 sub-horizontal nerves. In fruit this resembles G. Penangiana ; but it 

 has a very different stigma. 



18. Garcinia calycina, Kurz, Journ. Bot. 1875, p. 324. A shrub 15 

 feet high ; young branches slender, slightly angled, pale brown when dry. 

 Leaves thinly coriaceous, elliptic-oblong to elliptic, abruptly and shortly 

 caudate-acuminate or sub-acute, the base cuneate ; upper surface shin- 

 ing, the lower rather dull and pale ; main nerves 7 or 8 pairs forming 

 bold intra-marginal arches, the intermediate nerves very numerous, all 

 slightly prominent beneath ; length 3 to 5 in., breadth J 25 to 2 in., 

 petiole '3 to '5 in. Male flowers "15 in. in diam., axillary, solitai-y or in 

 2- to 3-flowered fascicles ; buds globular, pedicels "15 in. long. Sepals 

 and petals each 4, equal, orbicular, concave, the petals veined ; stamens 



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