Garcinia.] xxi u. GUTTiFEius. (T. Anderson.) 26? 



EASTERN BENGAL; Jyntea Hills and Khasia Mts., Wallich, &c., in beds of torrents, 

 3000-5000 ft. elevation. (Kew Distrib. Herb. ,^ Griffith, 848) ; (Herb. Ind. Or., H. f. T. 

 Garcinia, 14). 



A small erect tree, branches subverticillate. Leaves 4-8 by 2-3^ in., dark green; 

 veins close-set, anastomosing within the margin ; petiole 4~f in. Cymes in the axils of 

 the upper leaves, rather exceeding the petioles ; pedicels short, stout ; bracts under each 

 flower 2, leafy, in. long. MALE fl.: Sepals orbicular, concave. Petals 4 in. long, 

 obliquely oblong, suberect, slightly concave. Stamens very numerous, mass subglobose 

 concealing the rudimentary ovary ; anthers large, horse-shoe shaped. FEMALE fl. like 

 the male, but | smaller. Staminodes many, united into a lobed ring or into bundles. 

 Ooary oblong ; stigma broad, discoid, edge revolute, slightly lobed. Fruit the size of a 

 plum, subglobose, smooth, dark olive-green, crowned by the short-thick style, 1-2- 

 seeded. 



22. G-. IVIaing-ayi, Hook.f.; leaves 4-6 in., elliptic obtusely apiculate 

 petioled, nerves distant spreading arched distinct, interspaces covered with 

 minute wavy irregular raised points and lines, flowers about f in diam. 



EASTERN PENINSULA, Malacca, Maingay, (Kew Distrib. No. 161 6 and 160 9). 



A small tree; branches obtusely angled. Leaves coriaceous, very pale-brown when 

 dry, not shining, narrowed into the petiole, which is ^ in. long ; nerves ^-^ in. apart. 

 MALE fl. in terminal fascicles, shortly pedicelled. /Sepals broader than long, outer 

 smaller than the inner. ' Petals larger than the sepals, shortly clawed. Stamens very 

 numerous, filaments connate into a short column ; anthers in very many series sur- 

 rounding a columnar rudimentary ovary with a discoid top, linear, recurved, 2-celled. 

 FEMALE fl. solitary, terminal, subsessile. Perianth of the male. /Staminodes few, slen- 

 der, inserted on a hypogjuous ring. Ovary globose, half-concealed by the large convex 

 entire stigma, 4-6-celled. Maingay describes the stigrna as marginally 3-4-lobed, but 

 it appears to be quite entire in the dried specimens. /. D. H. 



23. G-. stipulata, T. Anders. ; leaves thickly coriaceous elliptic-oblong 

 stipulate, male flowers in 4-6-flowered cymes, female solitary or geminate. 

 Guttifera, Griff. It. Notes, 117 n. 261. 



EASTERN HIMALAYA, in moist subtropical forests, Bhotan, Griffith (Kew. Distrib. 860) 

 Sikkiin, ascending to 4000 ft., /. D. H. (Herb. H. f. & T. Garcinia, 17.) 



A tree, about 60 ft ; bark smooth, branches slender. Leaves 6-12 by l4-3 in-, dark 

 green, thickly coriaceous, yellow-green ; midrib and nerves prominent, the latter alternate, 

 distant, incurved, reticulate ; petiole f in. ; stipules small, triangular. MALE fl. 4-6 in 

 each cyme ; pedicels 4 in., stout ; bracts scale-like. Sepals orbicular, concave, outer 

 ^ in., inner \ in. broad. Petals twice as long, obliquely ovate, acute. Stamens many, 

 in an annular mass ; free portion of filaments very short. FEMALE fl. like the male, 

 axillary, solitary, shortly pedicelled. Fruit $ in. long, oblong, smooth, shortly pointed, 

 2-celled and 2-seeded ; stigma orbicular, tubercled, margin revolute. /Seeds flattened, 

 oblong, testa strongly nerved. Planchon and Triana refer the flowers of the Herb. Ind. 

 Or. H. f. & T. specimens of this to G. speciosa (I.e. 172 in note), and state that they 

 cannot reconcile the venation and stipulation of the leaves distributed with them with 

 any Guttiferce, but the tribe Quinece, and therefore refer these to a plant of that said 

 tribe. 1 have however examined the living plant in Sikkim, and it is certain that there 

 was no error in the distribution of the Indian specimens. 



*** Stamens of the male flowers in 4 bundles ; anther-cells dehiscing by 

 terminal pores, or by 2 erect valves ; stigma peltate smooth. 



24. G. merg-uensis, Wight III. 122, Ic. t. 116; leaves lanceolate 

 elliptic or ovate with a long obtuse or notched tip, flowers axillary, male 

 cymose, female solitary or in pairs. Watt. Cat. 1948. [Lan&tan Mem. 

 Gardn. 57, excl. synj] Discostigma merguense, Planch. & Trian. M?.m. 

 Guttif. 208. 



