118 S. Kurz — A Sketch of the Vegetation of the Nicooar Islands. [No. 3, 



FOBTTJLACAOEM. 



26. Portttlaca oleracea, L. — A weed around the huts of the natives 

 on the beaches of Kamorta and Katchall. 



GUTTIFEBjE. 



27. Garcinia spectosa, Wall. — Not unfrecjuent in the coral-reef- 

 forests of Katchall ; also Nankowry (Novara 167 ; Jelinek 138 — pajua, 

 inc.) 



28. GARCnsriA cornea, Linn. — Common in the tropical forests of 

 Kamorta ; also Nankowry (Novara 168 ; Jelinek 131 — ^ajua, inc.) 



29. Garctnta caltcina, Kurz in Trim. Journ. Bot. 1875, 324. — 

 Common in the tropical forests of Kamorta. 



N. B. Dr. Hooker (Journ. Linn. Soc. XIV. 485) wishes to correct a 

 supposed error of mine in regard to No. 155 of Maingay's Collections, 

 which I declared (in litteris) to he identical with G. rostrata (Discostigma 

 rostratum, Hassk.). He points out, inter alia, a different androecium. 

 Both the specimens of the above Maingayan No. in H. B. C. are females, 

 and hence an androecium is here out of the question. The male flowers of 

 G. rostrata are up to date still unknown,* and I cannot understand how 

 Teysmami could have sent male specimens to Dr. Hooker, as it is a fact 

 that the only tree in the Buitenzorg garden, upon which Hasskarl based 

 his species, is a female one. Hence I must suspect that Dr. Hooker 

 received G. Merguiensis from Teysmann, a male tree of which is culti- 

 vated in those gardens. Under these circumstances and after re-examination 

 of the Maingayan specimens I hold to opinion expressed. 



30. Garcinia (Xanthochymtjs) Jelifekii, nov. sp. 



Arborea, glabra ; folia oblonga ad elliptico-oblonga, basi acuminata, 

 petiolo gracili circiter semipollicari suffulta, apiculata, 5 — 7 poll, longa, 

 tenuiter coriacea, glabra, nervis lateralibus tenuibus subconfertis intra 

 marginem anastomozantibus percursa ; panicuhe f ructigerae cymif ormes, 

 glabrae, breviter pedunculate, petiolo circiter duplo longiores, terminales 

 et laterales ; sepala sub fructu 5, semilineam circiter longa, ovata, acuta, 

 glabra ; bacce obovatse v. sub-globoso-obovoidea?, cerasi ma j oris magnitudine, 

 apice cum stigmate minuto impress*, lseves, 2 — 1-spermse ; semina 6 — 7 

 lin. longa, compressooblonga, laevia. Tillangchong (Novara 169 ; 

 Jelinek 106). 



31. Galop hyllttm Lstophyllum, L. — Frequent in the beach-forests 

 all along the coast of Kamorta and Katchall ; also Karnicobar (Novara 166 ; 



* Miquel, however, seems to have known the male flowers of it, although all he 

 says about them is that they are panicled. 



