268 xxiir. GUTTiFEE^. (T. Anderson.) [Gardnia. 



Eastern Peninsula ; in dense woods from Mergui to Malacca. 



A small tree or shrnb, yonng branclies sub-4-gonal. Leaves 2-4 by 1-1 J in., thinly 

 coriaceous ; veins below very close set, delicate, ending in a stout intramarginal one ; 

 petiole i-l in. MalsA. numerous; cymfis ^-Jin. long; pedicels J in., 4-gonal Outer 

 sepals small, bract-like ; inner ^5- in., tbin, membranous, concave. Petah like the 

 inner sepals, concave. Stamens many, in 4 distinct bundles, eacb bearing a head of 

 anthers on short filaments ; anthers small, 2-celled. BvMmentary stigma large fungoid ; 

 style equalling the staminal bundles. Female fl. on pedicels ^1 in. Fruit ^ in. 

 long, oblong, fleshy. Seed solitary, subreniform. 



25. e. travancorlca, Beddome Mor. Sylvat. t. 173 ; leaves 24-3| in. 

 lineaf- oblong, tip rounded, base acute, nerves very slender horizontal, surface 

 finely reticulated beneath between them, petiole slender, flowers 5 in. diam. 

 Garcinia, sp. 2, Beddome Flor. Sylvat. Gen. xxi. 



Wes*een Peninsula, in forests of Travancor and Tinnivelly, Beddome. 



A large tree, abounding in a yellow pigment ; branches obtusely 4-angled, shining. 

 Leaves coriaceous, sometimes broader upwards, dark green above, not shining, pale 

 beneath, with a stout reddish (when dry} midrib, and beautifully reticulated surface ; 

 margins recurved ; petiole J-f in. Male fl. in 3-ohotomous, short, few-flowered terminal 

 and subterminal cymes. Sepals orbicular, concave. Petals about twice as large, shortly 

 clawed. Stamens in 4 large masses ; anthers very numerous, versatile, 2-celled, cells 

 longitudinally 2-valved. Evdimentary ovary columnar, with a circular peltate stigma. 

 Female fl. terminal, subsolitary. Perianth of the male. Staminode^ few, slender, 

 inserted in a hypogynous ring. Ovary globose, half concealed by the large convex 

 ohsourfely lobed stigma. Fruit as large as a walnut, sijbglobose, contracted into a short 

 thick style with a broad imbricate stigma A in. diam. Seeds few, large, shining. — 

 J. D. H. 



26. G. terpnophylla, Thwaites Enum. 406 ; leaves lanceolate acute or 

 acuminate with an obtuse tip, flowers axillary, male in short subumbeilate 

 fascicles, females solitary or in pairs. Beddome Fk/r. Sylvat. Gen. xxL 

 Terpnophyllum zeylanicum, Thwaites in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bat. vi. 

 70, t. 2, f. 1, EnvJm. 49. Discostigma zeylanicum. Planch. & Ti-ian. Mem. 

 GuUif. 209. 



Central province of Ceylon, ascending to 4000 ft., Thwaites. 



A middle-sized tree, young foliage red-purple. Leaves 3-5 by l-lj in., coriaceous ; 

 midrib prominent, Veins J in. apart, inaiching at the tips with an intramarginal one. 

 Male fl. J in diam. ; pedicels J in. Stamens many, in 4 [2-4 Beddome) very short 

 spreading bundles, adnate to the basal keel of the petals ; anthers sessile. Budimentary 

 ovary a small papilla. Female fl. : Staminodes scale-like. Ovary 2-ceUed ; stigma 

 peltate, partially lobed. Fruit f in. long, obliquely ovoid, l-celled, 1-seeded. — -In the 

 flower I have examined the stamens are in 4 equal bundles, as in its allies of this section, 

 and not on a lobed disk as represented in Jourti. Bot. I.e. 



Vae. atuminatum; leaves with a long tapering obtuse point. Discostigma acumi- 

 natum. Planch. & Trian. Mem. Guttif. 209. 



27. G. «ag'enlaefoUa, Wall. Gat. 4873 ; leaves broadly lanceolate acute 

 or acuminate, male flowers in short dense axillary cymes, females subum- 

 belled. 



EAfltEBNPENiHSDLA; Sincaporo, Wallieh (7491); Malacca, Griffith, Maingay. 



A Small tree very like G. meraaense, but with large broader leaves, finely and closely 

 veined beneath like a Oahphylium. Male fl. as in merffuense but smaller, in short 

 dense cymes. Staminal bundles distinct, suberect, free part of filaments very short ; an- 

 thers very small. Style slender, as long as the stamens. Female fl. in 4-10 flowered 

 short subnmbelled cymes. Sepab minute, scale-like. Petals smaller, margins ciliate. 

 Staminodes ? , Ovary sbott, terete ; stigma broad, peltate with revolute entire mar- 

 gins. — I cannot agree with Triana and Planohon in referring Discostigma rostratum, 



