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fleshy, red. Stamens from 25 to 40, in a square flat-topped mass ; 

 anthers nearly sessile, broadly oblong, the connective wide ; the cells 2, 

 lateral, slightly curved, their dehiscence longitudinal ; rudy. ovary 0. 

 Female flowers in few-flowered axillary cymes ; pedicels thick, '2 in long. 

 Sepals and petals as in the male ; staminodes in 4 bundles of unequal 

 length; ovary ribbed, ]2-celled; style very short ; stigma "with many 

 conical papillae, peltate, slightly depressed in the middle, its margins 

 cienate. Fruit sub-globular, 2 or 3 in. in diara. when ripe, greenish 

 yellow, crowned by the concave papillate stigma, very glutinous. Pierre 

 Flore Coch.-Chine, fasc. VI, p. xxvi, tab. 80, fig. B. 



Malacca; Grifiith 861, Maingay 153 ( Kew Distrib). Perak, com- 

 mon. Pangkore, Curtis 1609. Distrib. Sumatra ; Forbes, No. 2994. 



2J. GrARCiNiA FORBESii, King, n. sp. A Small tree, young branches 

 sub-tetragonouR, yellowish. Leaves thinly coriaceous, oblanceol ate to ovate- 

 lanceolate, shortly acuminate, the base cuneate ; both surfaces slightly 

 dull when dry, the lower slightly pale ; nerves spreading, anastomosing 

 with an intra-marginal nerve, '15 in. apart, the intermediate rather bold, 

 all distinct below when dry; length 3-5 to 5 in. breadth 1*5 to 2'5 in., 

 petiole "3 to "4 in. Male flowers '25 in. diam. in 3- or 4-flowered clusters 

 from small axillary tubercles, buds sub-globose, pedicels "1 to '15 in. 

 Sepals 4, equal, rather thin, pale-coloured, orbicular, concave. Petals 4, 

 fleshy, orbicular, dark-coloured, concave. Stamens numerous, in a single 

 convex mass, the connective small ; anthers sessile, sub-orbicular, 2-celled 

 with longitudinal dehiscence ; rudy. ovary 0. Female floivers axiUary, 

 solitaiy, sessile ; sepals 4, broadly ovate, blunt, fleshy, concave ; petals 4, 

 orbicular, fleshy, concave, red to orange ; stigma sessile, convex, com- 

 pletely covering the ovary, entire, its surface with prominent glandular 

 papilla. Fruit (young) ovoid, crowned by the stigma. 



Perak ; Wray 3396. Sumatra ; Forbes Nos. 2936 and 3J52. 

 22. Garcinia bancana, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl., 494. A tree 60 

 to 80 feet high ; young branches stout, nodular, not angled, black and 

 shining when dry. Leavps coriaceous, large, broadly obovate-lanceolate ; 

 the apex rounded, often slightly and bluntly mucronate; much narrowed 

 in the lower third into the stout winged petiole ; upper surface shining, 

 the numerous and very oblique nerves distinct ; lower surface dull, 

 opaque, pale brown, the nerves obsolete; midrib prominent in both ; 

 length 5 to 7 in., breadth 2 to 3 in., petiole '75 to 1*25 in. Male flowers 

 •15 in. in diam., in crowded fascicles of 6 to 12, from short densely 

 bracteolate tubercles in the axils of leaves or of fallen leaves ; pedicels 

 unequal, "25 to "5 in. long ; bracteoles ovate, coloured, •! in. or less. 

 Sepals 4, orbicular, concave, fleshy, the outer pair larger than the 

 inner. Petals 4, ovate, blunt, fleshy concave. Stamens numerous, in a 

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