268 xxin. GUTTIFERJK. (T. Anderson.) [Garcinia. 



EASTERN PENINSULA ; in dense woods from Mcrgui to Malacca. 



A small tree or shrub, young branches sub-4-gonal. Leaves 2-4 by 1-lf in., thinly 

 coriaceous; veins below very close set, delicate, ending in a stout intnunarginal one; 

 petiole -^ in. MALE fl. numerous; cymes \-fe in long; pedicels | in., 4-gonal Outer 

 sepals small, bract-like ; inner ^5- in., thin, membranous, concave. Petals like the 

 inner sepals, concave. Stamens many, in 4 distinct bundles, each bearing a head of 

 anthers on short filaments ; anthers small. 2-celled. Rudimentary stigma large fungoid ; 

 style equalling the staminal bundles. FEMALE fl. on pedicels ^-1 in. fruit ^-^ in. 

 long, oblong, fleshy. Seed solitary, subreniform. 



25. G. travancorica, Beddvnie Flor. Sylrat. t. 173; leaves 2 \-3i- in. 

 linear- oblong, tip rounded, base acute, nerves very slender horizontal, surface 

 finely reticulated beneath between them, petiole slender, flowers \ Ul - diam. 

 Garcinia, sp. 2, Beddome Flor. /s'//// 1 '//. (,',-n. xxi. 



WESTERN PENINSULA, in forests of Travancor and Tinnivelly, Beddome. 



A large tree, abounding in a yellow pigment; branches obtusely 4-angled, shining. 

 Leaves coriaceous, sometimes broader upwards, dark green above, not shining, pale 

 beneath, with a stout reddish (when dry) midrib, and beautifully reticulated surface; 

 margins recurved; petiole J-f in. MALE fl.in 3-chotomous, short, few (lowered terminal 

 and subterminal cymes. >'. j>nls orbicular, concave. Petals about twice as large, shortly 

 clawed. Stamens in 4 large masses; anthers very numerous, versatile, 2-celied, cells 

 longitudinally 2-valved. lindimenturii nrnnj columnar, with a circular peltate stigma. 

 FEMALE fl. terminal, subsolitary. P< r'mitth of the male. Xtatiiut<l''x few, slender, 

 inserted in a hypogynons ring. Ovary globose, half concealed by the large convex 

 obscurely lobed stigma. Fruit as large as a walnut, subglobose, contracted into a short 

 thick style with a broad intricate stigma in. diam. /v< rs few, large, shining. 

 /. D. H. 



26. Cr. terpnophylla, Thwaites Emtm. 406 ; leaves lanceolate acute or 

 acuminate with an obtuse tip, flowers axillary, male in short subumbeilate 

 fascicles, females solitary or in pairs. Beddome Flor. tiiilvit. (i>-n. xxi. 

 Terpnophyllum zeylanicum, Thwiiti'* in U<><>l>-. J^md. Jowm. J><>t. vi. 

 70, t. 2, f. 1, Enam. 49. Discostigma zeylanicum, Planck. <fr Tria/t. Mem. 

 Giittif. 209. 



Central province of CEYLON, ascending to 4000 ft., Thwaites. 



A middle-sized tree, young foliage red-purple. Leaven 3-5 by 11^ in., coriaceous ; 

 midrib prominent, veins in. apart, inaicliing at the tips with an intranmrginal one. 

 MALE H. J in diam.; pedicels Jin. titamt'iis many, in 4 [2-4 I.cddomcj very short 

 spreading bundles, adnate to the basal keel of the petals ; anthers sessile. Rudimentary 

 ovary a small papilla. FEMALE fl. : ^tnniinodes scale-like. Ovary 2-celled; stigma 

 peltate, partially lobed. Fruit $ in. long, obliquely ovoid, 1 -celled, 1-seeded. In the 

 flower I have examined the stamens are in 4 equal bundles, as in its allies of this section, 

 and not on a lobed disk as represented in .lonrn. I Jot. I.e. 



VAK. acuminatum; leaves with a long tapering obtuse point. Discostigma acumi- 

 natum, Planch, di Trian. Mi-.m. G'uttif. 209. 



27. G. eug-eniaefolia, Wall. Cat. 4873 ; leaves broadly lanceolate acute 

 or acuminate, male flowers in short dense axillary cymes, females subum- 

 belled. 



EASTERN PENINSULA ; Sincapore, Wallich (7491); Malacca, Griffith, Maingay. 



A small tree very like O. merauense, but with large broader leaves, finely and closely 

 veined beneath like a Calophyllum. MALE fl. as in merguense but smaller, in short 

 dense cymes. /Staminal bundles distinct, suberect, free part of filaments very short ; an- 

 thers very small, Style slender, as long as the stamens. FEMALE fl. in 4-10 flowered 

 short subumbelled cymes. Sepals minute, scale-like. Petals smaller, margins ciliate. 

 Staminodes ? Ovary short, terete ; stigma broad, peltate with revolute entire mar- 

 gins. I cannot agree with Triana and Planchon in referring Uiscustiama rostratum, 



