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branches 4-anglecl, yellow. Leaves tliiuly coriaceous, ovafce-lauceolate to 

 oblong-lanceolate, shortly caudate-acuminate, the base acute ; both sur- 

 faces shining, the lower pale, opaque ; nerves 7 to 9 pairs, bold and promi- 

 nent beneath as are some of the secondary nerves ; length 4*5 to 5'5 in., 

 breadth 1*5 to 2 in., petiole '25 in. Male flowers about '2 in. in diam. in 

 dense 6 to 10-flowered fascicles from small minutely bracteolate axillary 

 tubercles; buds turbinate; pedicels slender, -1 in. or less in length; 

 sepals 4, membranous, orbicular, concave ; the outer pair much smaller 

 and thicker, keeled ; petals 4, smaller than the sepals, fleshy, orbicular, 

 concave : stamens from a small receptacle ; filaments short ; anthers 

 broadly reniform, the connective exjoanded transversely, the cells some- 

 times confluent, bent round it, and dehiscing along the convexity ; rudy. 

 stigma 0. Female flowers on axillary tubercles like the males, but 

 fewer-flowered : sepals as in the male but subequal : petals as in the 

 male ; staminodes about 10, distinct, the filaments broad, the pseud - 

 anthers flat, ovate : stigma convex with 8 radiating ridges, its margin 

 8-angled ; ovary thick, cylindric, nearly as wide as the stigma. Fruit 

 (fide Kunstler) ovoid, pointed. 



Perak; at low elevations, Wray No. 2162, King's Collector, No. 

 2531. 



Subgenus II. Xanthochtmus, E-oxb. (Gen.). Sepals and petals 

 5, very rarely 4. Filaments connate in 5, rarely in 4, erect distant pedi- 

 celled spathulate bodies, antheriferous at the top, free portions very 

 short, incurved ; anthers small, didymous. 



31. Garcinia Xanthochtmus, Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 269. A me- 

 dium-sized tree ; the branches glabrous, angled. Leaves glabrous, shining ; 

 narrowly oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acute, the base cuneate ; nerves 

 numerous, not prominent; length 8 to 15 in., breadth 1*75 to 3*75 in., 

 petiole about "75 in. Male flowers "5 to '75 in. in diam., in 4-10-flowered 

 fascicles, axillary or from the axils of fallen leaves, greenish- white ; 

 pedicels stout, '5 to 1 in. long. Sepals *25 in. in diam., orbicular, unequal, 

 fleshy, concave. Petals '35 in., orbicular, spreading, thin. Stamens in 

 5 broad bundles of 3 to 5, alternating with 5 fleshy glands : anthers 2- 

 celled. Hermaph. floiuer like the male, the pedicels 2 or 3 times as long. 

 Ovary ovoid, pointed, usually 5-celled; stigma with 5, spreading, oblong 

 blunt lobes. Bipe fruit globose, pointed, 2-5 in. in diam., dark yellow. 

 Seeds 1 to 4, oblong. Kurz For. Flora Burma i, 93 ; Pierre Flore 

 Forest. Cochin-Chine, fasc. VI, p. iii, t. 21 A. Xanthochymus pictorius, 

 Roxb. Corom. PI. ii, 51, t. 196 ; Fl. Ind. ii, 633. X. tinctorius, DC. 

 Prodr. i, 562 ; Chois. Guttif. Ind. 32 ; Planch, and Triana Mem. Guttif. 

 J49; W. and A. Prodr. 102; Wall. Cat. 4837, except C. 



Andamans, Penang. Distrib. Burmah and Chittagong, base of E. 

 Himalaya and Assam, S. India up to 1500 lout. 



