170 Materials fur a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula, 



leaves ; pedicels '25 to '35 in., sepals 4 to 6, usually 5, orbicular, un- 

 equal, fleshy, concave, the 3 outer smaller. Petals usually 5, larger than 

 the sepals, orbicular, fleshy, concave ; Stamens about 40, in 5, pedicelled, 

 fan-shaped groups ; filaments short, thick ; anthers sub-globular, 

 2-celled, with sutural dehiscence; disc in the male depressed, truncate, 

 corrugated, fleshy ; in the female with 5 lobes which alternate with the 

 staminal groups. Stigma in the male absent; in the hermaphrodite 

 5-rayed, the ovary ovoid-globular. Fruit 2'5 in. long, from globular to 

 pear-shaped, pedunculate, smooth, yellow, with much sweet pulp; seeds 1 

 to 5, oblong, pointed ; pedicels 1 in. Pierre Flor. Forest. Cochin-Ghine, 

 fasc. VI, p. iv. Xanthochymus dulcis, Roxb. Cor. PI. t. 270; Wight Ic. 

 270 ; Bot. Mag. 2088 ; Choisy Gutt. Ind. 32 ; Planch, and Triana Mem. 

 Guttif. 149. Garcinia elliptica, Choisy in DC. Prod, i, 561 (not of Wall. 

 Cat.) X. Javensis, Blume Bijdr. 216 ; Stalagmites dulcis, Cambess. Mem. 

 Mus. xvi. 392, 425; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. 2, 508; Hassk. Pi. Jav. 

 Rar. 275. 



Perak ; King's Collector No. 5750. Distrib. Malayan Archipelago. 



34. Garcinia Andamanica, King, n. sp. A ti'ee from 20 to 40 feefe 

 high ; young branches 4-angled, pubescent. Leaves elongate-ovate, often 

 inequilateral, sub-acute ; the base broad, rounded or slightly cordate ; 

 both surfaces glabrous, shining ; main nerves 14 to 16 pairs, rather pro- 

 minent ; length 8 to 11 in., breadth 4 to 5"5 ; petiole "5 in., stout. Male 

 flowers about 3 in. in diam., in short dense axillary fascicles from short 

 wart-like branches. Sepals 5, coriaceous, ovate-rotund, iml)ricate, 

 pubescent externally. Petals 5, larger than the sepals, thin, rotund, 

 clawed, imbricate, glabrous. Stamens indefinite, in 5 thick fleshy 

 bundles ; anthers minute, sub-globular, introrse. Disc of 5 broad 

 corrugated glands much shorter than the bundles of stamens and alter- 

 nating with tliera. Pistil 0. i^emaZe yZowers unknown, i'^ntif globular 

 or oval, smooth, br-ight yellow, 1 to 1'5 in. long, and '75 to 1'25 in. in 

 diara., shortly apiculate ; the 5-lobed stigma persistent. G. dulcis, Kurz 

 (not of Roxb.) For. Flora Burma i, 92 ; Pierre Fi. Forest. Cochin. -Chine, 

 fasc. VI, p. vi, in part. 



Andaman Islands; Heifer No. 872, Kurz, King'.s Collector, No. 

 224. 



Var. puhescens, leaves shortly pubescent beneath, the base cuneate. 



Andamans ; King's Collector, No. 136. 



This species was considered by Kurz to be identical with Xantho- 

 chymus dulcis, Roxb., a native of the Moluccas cultivated in the Botanical 

 Gardens, Calcutta. It does not, however, agree with specimens still 

 in cultivation there, nor with Roxburgh's description. Pierre (1. c.) 

 expi'osses his doubt as to the identity of the Andaman and Molucca plants; 



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