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tibus, teretibus vel plus minus angulatis; foliis oblongo-ellipticis, breviter 

 obtuse acuminatis, basi acutis, 8 ad 12 cm longis, nervis tenuibus, circiter 

 35 utrinque; cymis axillaribus, 2 cm longis; floribus masculinis 4-meris; 

 staminibus numerosis, in phalangibus stipitatis dense congestis; pistilli 

 rudimento fungiforme; fructibus globosis, 1.5 cm diametro, 1-locellatis, 

 1 -sperm is. 



A tree 10 m high or less, the branches terete, rather slender, yellowish, 

 the branchlets blackish, terete or somewhat angled. Leaves oblong-ellip- 

 tical, 8 to 12 cm long, 8.5 to -t cm wide, subcoriaceous, dark-colored when 

 dry, shining on both surfaces, the lower surface somewhat paler than 

 the upper, the apex with a short, blunt acumen, the base acute; petioles 

 black, 1 cm long or less; nerves very numerous, slender, about 35 on 

 each side of the midrib, anastomosing, the secondary ones and reticulations 

 nearly as prominent at the primary ones. Inflorescence of axillary, short- 

 peduncled, 2 cm long cymes, in the upper axils only. Male flowers 

 •1-merous, pedicelied. Outer two sepals orbicular-ovate, obtuse, 2 mm 

 long, the inner two orljicular, concave, 3.5 mm in diameter. Petals 

 4, orbicular or orbicular-elliptic, equaling the inner sepals. Stamens 

 numerous, in four stipitate phalanges opposite the petals, the stipes 

 about 1.5 mm long, the antheis 2-celled, sessile, mostly on the inner face 

 and margins of the phalanges, forming a somewhat flattened head 2 mm 

 in diameter. Eudimentary ovary stipitate, the stipe 1.5 mm long, the 

 stigma rounded, 2.5 mm in diameter, the margin obscurely 4-lobed. 

 Fruit black when dry, globose, smooth, 1.5 cm in diameter, 1-celled, with 

 a single large seed, crowned by the entire, disciform, sessile stigma which 

 is about 5 mm in diameter. 



Luzon, Province of Tayabas, Atimonan, Whitford GTS, 739, August, 1904, in 

 forests at an altitude of from 15 to 100 m. 



6. Garcinia eugeniaefolia Wall. Cat. (1828) no. 4873; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. 

 Ind. 1 (1874) 268; King in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 59= (1890) 150; Vesque in 

 DC. ]\Ionog. Phan. 8 (1893) 343. 



IMiNDOBO, For. Bur. 6762, 6767, 6S18, 11398, 111/87 MerriU, March, April, May, 

 1907-08; For. Bur. 12195, 12197, 12203 Rosenbluth, April-June, 1908. 



The above specimens agree closely with specimens from Singapore, coll. Ridley, 

 identified with Wallich's species, with specimens from Java named Oarcinia 

 brevirostris Scheff., and with the various descriptions of the species, and I do not 

 hesitate to refer the Mindoro specimens here. King states that Sclieffer's species 

 is identical with Wallich's, and judging from the material before me I consider 

 that he is correct. T., Basan, Basal; Mang., Banotan. 



Penang to Perak, the Andaman Islands, Singapore and Banca; new to the 

 Philippines. 



7. Garcinia dives Pierre Fl. Forest. Cochinch. Enum. XXXV, pi. 90 B; Vesque 

 Epharm. 2: t. 13J,, 135; DC. Monog. Phan. 8 (1893) 360. 



Garcinia maingayi Vidal Sinopsis Atlas (1883) 14, t. 11, f. V, non Hook. f. 

 Garcinia bosoiosoensis Pierre ex Vesque in DC. Monog. Phan. 8 (1893) 484. 

 Garcinia coiva Vidal Sinopsis Atlas (1883) t. 11, f. D; Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. 

 (1886) 53 (?) non Roxb. 



Garcinia venulosa Morr. in Philip. Joiirn. Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 97, non Choisy. 



