GARCINIA; — MANGOSTANA. 379 
pressés, souvent dénudés et pointus, la feront rechercher comme 
plante de haie. Son bois est jaunâtre, flexible, assez dur; il peut être 
employé à de menus ouvrages. 
68. G. tonkinensis Vesque. — G. Balansæ H. Baill., Bullet. Soc. 
Linn. Paris, 5 mars 1890. 
Ton-Kin, Tu Phap, Balansa, 4359. 
Nom. vernac. Annam. : Kei-Yap. 
Arbor. habitu Pini, 10-15 m. alta, glabra, ramulis compressis, 
3 mm. crassis, apice foliosis. Folia obovala v. elliptica, apice obtusa 
v. acutiuscula, basi in petiolum contracta, papyracea, viva læte viri- 
dia, siccitate fusca, margine angustissime repanda, 10-13 cm. longa, 
4,5-6 cm. lata, petiolo 1,5-2 cm. longo, nervo. medio valido, supra 
ultra dimidium limbum canaliculato, subtus prominente, lateralibus 
lenuibus circa 12, sub angulo 45° a costa abeuntibus, apice arcuatis 
sub margine anastomosantibus, cum nervis brevioribus veniformibus 
irregularibusque singulis v. binis alternantibus, utrinque prominulis, 
venis oblique et laxe reticulatis tenuissimis. 
Epidermidis superæ cellulæ recte delineatæ tabulares, cuticula me- 
diocri. Epidermidis infer: cellulæ undulalim delineatæ majores, tabu- 
lares, cuticula mediocri levi. Stomata elliptica, cellulis epidermidis 
minora, cellulis accessoriis latis. Hypoderma uniseriatum, ad basim 
limbi supra nervum medium 9-seriatum. Mesophyllum bifaciale circit. 
12-seriatum, cellulis stratus superioris paliformibus, 1-2-plo longio- 
ribus quam latioribus, nunc vix indicalis. Nervorum lateralium fasci- 
culi immersi, vagina fibrosa subtus crassiore inclusi. Nervi medii 
fasciculus annularis, supra complanatus v. concavus, vagina fibrosa 
crassa subcontinua inclusus. Petioli fasciculus arcuatus, margine 
abrupte involutus, fibris mechanicis destitutus. Glandulæ canaliformes 
mediocres, in mesophyllo rariores, in petioli et nervi medii paren- 
chymate numerosæ. Crystalla echinata in mesophyllo nervi medii 
petiolique parenchymate. 
rescenti® tacéiniformes terminales v. laterales (flor. fem.) 
cireit. 8 cm. longs, circit. 9-floræ, pedicellis robustis, lateralibus 
medio articulatis, 2-2,5 em. longis, sub flore sensim incrassalis. Ala- 
bastra globosa, 6-8 mm. diametientia. Flores (in genere magni) 2,5 cm. 
lati. Sepala 4, orbiculata, concava, membranacea, haud crassa, 8 mm. 
longa. Petala 4, crassiora, carnosula, rubra, 11-42 mm. longa, e basi 
3 mm. lata superne angustata, lineari-oblonga, 3-3,5 mm. lala, apice 
rotundata, fere inconspicue flabellatim venosa. Stamina (in fl. masc. 
