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branous, olilanceolate to narrowly ovate-lanceolale, shortly but sharply 

 acuminate, the base much narrowed ; smooth on both surfaces, the lower 

 rather pale ; nerves indistinct, spreading, 9 to 13 pairs, some of the 

 intermediate almost as distinct as the primaiy ; length 3"5 to 5 iu., 

 breadth i"15 to TS in., petiole "35 to '6 in. Male flowers, about '15 in. 

 in diara., in small axillary or terminal fascicles of 3 to 6. Sepals 4, orbi- 

 cular, fleshy, concave, their edges thin. Petals 4, broadly ovate, blunt, 

 fleshy, concave. Stamens about 15, forming a convex mass ; the anthers 

 transversely flattened, 4-celled, the connective broad; rudimentary pistil 

 0. Female flowers solitary ; sepals 4, orbicular, membranous, veined. 

 Petals 0. Staminodes 4, with filaments half as long as tlie ovary, and flat 

 square heads. Ovary thick, cylindric, vertically grooved ; the stigma 

 convex, with large prominent black-tipped conical papillae, and with about 

 10 inconspicuous lobes. Fruit orange-yellow, depressed, sub-globose, 

 nearly 1*5 in. iu diam., smooth, the sepals persistent at its base for some 

 time. 



Perak ; at low elevations, common ; King's Collector, Scortechini, 

 Wray. 



This is allied to the Burmese G. linoceroides, T. Anders. ; but has 

 smaller flowers, fewer stamens and more acuminate leaves. 



27. GrARCiNiA ScoRTECHiNii, King, n. sp. A tree 20 to 40 feet high ; 

 branchlets yellowish, slightly angled. Leaves thinly coriaceous, ovate- 

 elliptic, occasionally ovate-lanceolate, shortly and rather bluntly acumi- 

 nate, the base acute ; both surfaces shining, the lower rather paler ; 

 main nerves 5 or 6 pairs, spreading, anastomising '2 in. from the margin, 

 very distinct on the under surface when dry, reticulations indistinct ; 

 length 275 to 475 in., breadth 1*5 to 2*5 in., petiole "25 in. Male 

 flowers "2 in. in diam., sessile or shortly pedicellate, in clusters of 3 to 6 

 from small axillary tubercles; sepals 4, orbicular, concave, thin, veined; 

 petals 4, broadly ovate, fleshy, concave ; stamens varying from 10 

 to 20, inserted on a 4-angled receptacle ; anthers with circular peltate 

 tops, the connective in the centre the cells circumferential, dehisc- 

 ing along the edge; filaments slender, shorter than the anthers; 

 rudimentary pistil 0. Female floivers nearly '5 in. in diam., axillary, 

 solitary, sessile or shortly pedicelhite. Ovary globose; stigma sessile, 

 with large lobules, obscurely 4-lobed. Fruit globular, '6 to 75 in. in 

 diam. ; the pericarp thick, leathery ; seeds about 4. 



Perak, common. Malacca; Grifiith (Kew Distrib. 859). Penang, 

 Curtis, 1249. 



This is not vei-y different from G. Choisyana, Wall, to which indeed 

 Pierre refers the Grifiithiau specimen 859. But Wallich's specimens of 

 G. Ghoisya7ia have leaves of so much thinner textui'e that, on the strength 



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