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branous, oblanceolate to narrowly ovate-lanceolate, shortly but sharply 

 acuminate, the base much narrowed ; smooth on both surfaces, the lower 

 rather pale ; nerves indistinct, spreading, 9 to 13 pairs, some of the 

 intermediate almost as distinct as the primary ; length 3'5 to 5 in., 

 breadth 1*15 to 1*8 in,, petiole "35 to '6 in. Male flowers about "15 in. 

 in diam., in small axillary or terminal fascicles of 3 to 6. Sepals 4!, orbi- 

 cular, fleshy, concave, their edges thin. Petals 4, broadly ovate, blunt, 

 fleshy, concave. Stamens about 15, forming a convex mass ; the anthers 

 transversely flattened, 4-celled, the connective broad ; rudimentary pistil 

 0. Female flowers solitary ; sepals 4, orbicular, membranous, veined. 

 Petals 0. Staminodes 4, with filaments half as long as the ovary, and flat 

 square heads. Ovary thick, cylindric, vertically grooved ; the stigma 

 convex, with large prominent black-tipped conical papillae, and with about 

 10 inconspicuous lobes. Fruit orange-yellow, depressed, sub-globose, 

 nearly 1"5 in. in diam., smooth, the sepals persistent at its base for some 

 time. 



Perak ; at low elevations, common : King's Collector, Scortechini, 

 Wray. 



This is allied to the Burmese G. linoceroides, T. Anders. ; but has 

 smaller flowers, fewer stamens and more acuminate leaves. 



27. Garcinia Scortechinii, King, n. sp. A tree 20 to 40 feet high ; 

 branchlets yellowish, slightly angled. Leaves thinly coriaceous, ovate- 

 elliptic, occasionally ovate-lanceolate, shortly and rather bluntly acumi- 

 nate, the base acute : both surfaces shining, the lower rather paler ; 

 main nerves 5 or 6 pairs, spreading, anastomising '2 in. from the margin, 

 very distinct on the under surface when dry, reticulations indistinct ; 

 length 2- 75 to 4-75 in., breadth 1-5 to 2*5 in , petiole -25 in. Male 

 fiowers "2 in. in diam., sessile or shortly pedicellate, in clusters of 3 to 6 

 from small axillary tubercles ; sepals 4, orbicular, concave, thin, veined ; 

 petals 4, broadly ovate, fleshy, concave ; stamens varying from 10 

 to 20, inserted on a 4-angled receptacle ; anthers with circular peltate 

 tops, the connective in the centre the cells circumferential, dehisc- 

 ing along the edge ; filaments slender, shorter than the anthers ; 

 rudimentary pistil 0. Female flowers nearly '5 in. in diam., axillary, 

 solitary, sessile or shortly pedicellate. Ovary globose ; stigma sessile, 

 with large lobules, obscurely 4-lobed. Fruit globular, -6 to "75 in. in 

 diam. ; the pericarp thick, leathery ; seeds about 4. 



Perak, common. Malacca; Griffith (Kew Distrib. 859). Penang, 

 Curtis, 1249. 



This is not very different from G Choisyana, Wall, to which indeed 

 Pierre refers the Griffithian specimen 859. But Wallich's specimens of 

 G. Choisyana have leaves of so much thinner texture that, on the strength 



