16-i G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Feninsida. [No. 2, 



This is very near G. Kydiana but differs in the points noted under 

 that species. 



24. Gaecinia Kydiana, Roxb. Fl. Ind. II, 623. A dioeceous tree, 26 

 to 40 feet high ; the branchlets dark-coloured when dry, not angled. 

 Leaves thinly coriaceous, lanceolate, acuminate, the base acute, both sur- 

 faces shining; nerves thin but distinct when dry, rather few for this 

 genus; length 3 to 5 in., breadth "75 to 15 in., petiole '35 to '5 in. Male 

 flowers '75 in. in diam., in small axillary or terminal pedunculate umbels 

 of 3 to 5, or solitary ; pedicels '25 in. long ; peduncles of the umbels "4 to 

 •6 in. Sepals 4, equal, ovate, obtuse, fleshy, yellow. Petals twice as 

 large as the sepals, broadly ovate, blunt, pale yellow. Anthers numerous, 

 inserted into the slightly 4-lobed fleshy mass of conjoined filaments, 

 square, 4-celled (a cell at each angle) pistil 0. Female flowers axillary 

 and terminal, solitary, sessile. Sepals and petals as in the male ; stami- 

 nodes 4, small, 3 or 4-fid. Ovary globular, sessile, 6 to 8-lobed ; stigma 

 sub-sessile, witb 6 to 8 spreading glandular rays. Fruit 1 to 1'5 in. in 

 diam., smooth, yellow, globular, depressed, with 6 to 8 deep vertical 

 grooves near the apex, and with a nipple-like protuberance from the 

 depressed apex on which is inserted the persistent stigma. Seeds 6 to 

 8, oblong, "85 in. long ; the arillus soft, acid, juicy. Kurz For. Fl. Burm. 

 I, 90 ,{n part ; Pierre Fl. Forest. Coch. -Chine, fasc. VI. p. xxix. Lanes- 

 san Mem. Garcin. 59, i7i part ; G. Boxhurghii, Wight Ic. 113 ; G. Cowa 

 Roxb. Hook. fil. Fl. B. Ind. I, in part. 



Andaman Islands. 



Of the true Roxburghian G. Kydiana^ the only specimens that I 

 have seen are from the Andamans. The Burmese specimens referred to 

 this species by Pierre and others belong mostly to G. Cowa as Roxburgh 

 described and figured it. But the two species are very closely allied. 

 The chief points that separate Kydiana from Cowa are its larger flowers, 

 the arrangement of the males in distinct pedunculate umbels, the females 

 always solitary and sessile ; and, in the fruit, the curious nipple rising 

 from the depressed apex, and the restriction of the vertical grooves to 

 the neighbourhood of the apex. In the Flora of Br. India the two are 

 united under G. Cowa. Griffith's Nos. 865 and 867, referred to Kydiana 

 by Pierre, belong in my opinion to G. nigro-lineata, Planch. 



25. Garcinia nigeo-lineata, Planch. MSS. A tree 20 to 50 feet 

 high ; young branches not angled, their bark rather dark. Leaves thinly 

 coriaceous, lanceolate and acuminate, or ovate-lanceolate and shortly 

 caudate-acuminate, the base acute ; both surfaces shining, the lower 

 ferruginous in some stages ; midrib rather stout ; main nerves rather 

 distinct when dry, about '1 to '15 in. apart, the intermediate nerves 

 almost as prominent ; length 3 to 4*5 in., breadth 1 to 1'5 in., petiole 



