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Sheet C of No. 4837 of Wall. Cat. (said to have been collected ia 

 Penaiig) does not in my opinion belong to this species. Its leaves have 

 too few nerves. 



32. Gakcinia nervosa, Miq. Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. I, 208. A tree 

 40 to 80 foet high ; young branches stout, compressed, 4-angIed, 2 of the 

 angles winged. Leaves large, glabrous, very coriaceous, oblong-oblanceo- 

 late or oblong-ovate, sub-acuto or obtuse, slightly narrowed below to the 

 rounded or minutely cordate base; upper surface shining ; the lower 

 dull, pale ; main nerves bold, numerous, anastoraising •! in. within the 

 margin with the bold intra-margiual nerve ; secondary nerves and 

 reticulations rather prominent ; length 9 to 20 in., breadth 3-5 to 7 in., 

 petiole 1-25 in. Male flowers unknown. Female floxoers 75 in. in diam., 

 in axillary fascicle.s of 8 to 10 ; pedicels thickened upwards, 1 to 125 

 in. long, (longer in the fruit). Sepals 5, unequal, orbicular, much imbri- 

 cate and very concave, very coriaceous, pubescent externally. Petals 

 5, much larger than the sepals, orbicular, concave, thin. Disc of 5 

 thick, fleshy, pitted glands with 5 minute staminodes between them 

 each bearing 4-5 minute anthers. Ovary ovoid, narx'owed into a dis- 

 tinct 5-rayed style, 5-celled. Ripe fruit ovoid or obovoid, yellow with 

 red blotches, 2 in. long and 1-5 in. in diam., with a large eccentric 

 mammilla crowned by the persistent 5-lobed stigma. Seeds about 2, 

 elongate-ovoid. G. Andersoni, Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 270,715; 

 Stalagmites ? nervosa, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 496. 



Perak; King's Collector 10491, Scortechini. Malacca; Maingay 

 (Kew Distrib. 157^. Distrib. Sumatra. 



Var. piibescens. Leaves densely and minutely pubescent below, 

 cordate and slightly unequal at the base, 15 to 24 in. long, the edges re- 

 curved when dry ; petiole triquetrous, very stout. Fruit bright yellow, 

 3 in. long, 2 in. in diam., the mammilla about "75 in. 



Perak; King's Collector, No. 3197. 



This may be separable as a species when further material shall be 

 forthcoming. Male flowers are unknown. 



33. Garcinia dulcis, Kurz For. Flora Burmah I, 92. A tree 30 to 

 40 feet high ; the young branches 4-angled, pale yellow. Leaves oblong 

 to ovate-oblong, with an abrupt short sharp point, the base rounded or 

 slightly narrowed ; upper surface shining, the lower slightly pale and 

 dull when dry, the midrib i-ather prominent on both ; main nerves about 

 10 pairs, interarching near the margin, not much more prominent than 

 the intorniediate nerves; length 5 to 10 in., breadth 175 to 45 in. ; 

 petiole "4 to '6 in., stout. Flowers globular, hardly expanding, about 

 •25 in. in diam., male and hermaphrodite mixed in dense many-flowered 

 fascicles from small tuborclea in the axils of the leaves or of the fallen 



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