164 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



This is very near ■(?. Kydiana but differ iti the points noted under 

 that species. 



24. Garcinia Kydtana, Tloxb. Fl. Ind. If, 623. A diceceous tree, 25 

 to 40 feet higli ; tlie branchlets dark-coloured when dry, not angled. 

 Leaves thinly coriaceous, lanceolate, acuminate, the base acute, both sur- 

 faces shining ; nerves thin but distinct when dry, rather few for this 

 genus; length 3 to 5 in., breadth '75 to 1'5 in., petiole "35 to "5 in. Male 

 flowers *75 in. in diam., in small axillary or terminal pedunculate umbels 

 of 3 to 5, or solitary ; pedicels '25 in. long ; peduncles of the umbels "4 to 

 •6 in. Sepals 4, equal, ovate, obtuse, fleshy, yellow. Petals twice as 

 large as the sepals, brondly ovate, blunt, pale yellow. ^ nf/iers numerou.s, 

 inserted into the slightly 4-lQbed fleshy mass of conjoined filaments, 

 square, 5-celled (a cell at each angle) pistil 0. Female flowers axillaxy 

 and terminal, solitary, sessile. Sepals and petals as in the male ; stami- 

 nodes 4, small, 3- or 4-fid. Ovary globular, sessile, 6- to 8-lobed ; stigma 

 sub-sessile, with 6 to 8 spreading glandular rays. Fruit I to 1*5 in. in 

 diam., smooth, yellow, globular, depressed, with 6 to 8 deep vertical 

 grooves near the apex, and with a nipple-like protuberance from tlie 

 depressed apex on which is inserted the persistent stigma. Seeds 6 to 

 8, oblong, '85 in. long; the arillus soft, acid, juicy. Kurz For. Fl. Burm. 

 I, 90, in part ; Pierre Fl. Forest. Coch. -Chine, fasc. VI, p. xxix. Lanessan 

 Mem. Garcin. 59, in part ; G. Buxburgliii, Wight Ic. 113 ; (?. Cowa 

 Roxb. Hook. fil. Fl. B. Ind. I, in part. 



Andaman Islands. 



Of the true Roxburgliian G. Kydiana, the only specimens that I 

 have seen are from the Andaraans, The Burmese specimens referred to 

 this species by Piei-re and others belong mo.^tly to G. Cowa as Roxburgh 

 described and figured it. But the two species are very closely allied. 

 The chief points that separate Kydiana from Cowa are its lurgcr flowers, 

 the arrangement of the males in distinct pedunculate umbels, tiie females 

 always solitary and sessile ; and, in the fruit, the curious nipple rising 

 from the depressed apex, and the restriction of the vertical grooves to 

 tlie neighbourhood of the apex. In the Flora of Br. India the two aro 

 united under G. Coiva. Griffith's Nos. 865 and 867, referred to Kydiana 

 by Pierre, belong in my opinion to G. nigro-lineata. Planch. 



25. Garcinia nigko-lineata. Planch. MSS. A tree 20 to 50 feet 

 high ; young branches not angled, their bark rather dark. LeavcsihinXy 

 coriaceous, lanceolate and acuminate, or ovate-lanceolate and shortly 

 caudate-acuminate, the base acute ; both surfaces shining, the lower 

 ferruginous in some stages ; midiib rather stout ; main nerves rather 

 distinct when dry, about "1 to '15 in. apart, the intermediate nerves 

 almost as prominent ; length 3 to 4"5 in,, breadth 1 to 15 in., petiole 



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