DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW AND RARE INDIAN PLANTS. 141 
thickened spot near the base, staminodes none; ovary cylindric; stigma hemispheric, 
smooth, entire, enveloping the upper part of the ovary, ultimately becoming discoid 
and slightly depressed in the middle. Young fruit cylindric, crowned by the stigma 
which has become flattened. 
Perak; on Ulu Batang Padang and on Gunong Batu Pateh, at elevations of 4,500 
feet and upwards. Wray, Nos. 267, 362, 1527; Scortechini, No. 3235, 
I have not seen ripe fruit of this, but (judging from the appearance of a young one) it is probably 
ovoid. In its leaves, this species rather resembles С. merguensis and С. rostrata. 
Pirate 168. Garcinia Wrayi, King. 1, branch with male flowers; 2, branch with very young fruit: of natural 
size; 3, male flower with the petals and rudimentary stigma removed; 4, petal of male flower; 5 & 6, two groups of 
stamens; 7, front of a stamen; 8, back of same; 9, rudimentary stigma of male flower; 10 & 11, petals of female 
flower; 12, stigma and ovary of female flower: enlarged. 
PLATE 169. 
Garcınıa ANDAMANICA, King in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, for 1890, pi. 2, р. 170. 
A tree from 20 to 40 feet 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 prominent; length 
8 to 11 in. breadth 4 to 5:5; petiole “5 in., stout. Mule flowers about ‘3 in. in diam., 
in short dense axillary ascicles from short wart-like branches below the leaves. Sepals 
5, sub-coriaceous, ovate-rotund, imbricate, pubescent externally. Petals 5, larger than 
the sepals, thin, rotund, clawed, imbricate, puberulous. Stamens indefinite, in 5 thick 
fleshy bundles; anthers minute, sub-globular, introrse. Disk of 5 broad corrugated glands 
much shorter than the bundles of stamens and alternating with them. Pistl 0. Femaie 
flower unknown. Fruit sub-globular or obliquely ovoid, smooth, bright yellow, 1 to 1:5 
in. long and "75 to 1:25 in. in diam., shortly apiculate, tapering to the base; the 5-lobed 
stigma persistent for some time. G. dulcis, Kurz (not of Roxb.) For. Flora Burma i, 92; 
Pierre Fl. Forest Cochin-Chine, fase. vi, p. vi, in part. 
Andaman Islands; Helfer No. 872, Kurz, King's Collector, No. 224. 
This врес ез was considered by Kurz to be identical with Xanthochymus duleis, Roxb., a native of 
the Moluccas cultivated in the Botanic Garden, Calcutta. It does not, however, agree with specimens 
still in cultivation there, nor with Roxburgh’s description. Pierre (1. c.) expresses his doubt as to the 
indentity of the Andaman and Molucca plants: but he adopts Kurz's name for the latter. This species 
is closely allied to @. Villersiana, Pierre, а common Cambodian plant. The leaves of the latter, as 
shown in Pierres figure (Fl. Forest. Cochin-Chine, t. 21) have, however, more nerves; the flowers have 
longer pedicels, and the staminal bundles are longer and more slender than in this species; the lobes of 
the disk are also narrower and longer. 
This is the Helferian plant referred to under G. Xanthochymus in Fl. Br. Ind. i, 269, as allied 
to, but differing from, that species. There is a variety of this with the leaves shortly pubescent beneath. 
PrarE 169. Garcinia Andamanica, King. 1, branen with male flowers; 2, nearly ripe fruit; 3, section of the same; 
4, seeds: of natural size; 5, male flower opened up; 6, sepal; 7, petal; 8, the five fascicles of stamens, glands and 
rudimentary ovary: enlarged; 9, a fascicle of stamens with two of the glands of the dise at its base; 10, rudimentary 
ovary: much enlarged. 
Axx. Roy. Bor. Garp. Carc, Vor. V. 
