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and stamens not seen. Ovary stalked, hairy, style rather 

 stout hairy, stigma capitulate. Fruit oblong rounded 

 at both ends, 4 inches long and three inches in diameter, 

 the pericarp dotted and warty greenish eventually be- 

 coming yellow, half an inch thick, lemon yellow inside, 

 full of long resin cells narrowed at the mouth and dilated 

 below, cells 5, with rather thick tough walls, pulp of 

 transparent flattened sticky fibres olive green in colour 

 and tasteless. Seeds numerous about 5 in a section ovate 

 flattened half an inch long -J inch thick, olive grey. 



Southern Siam: Patani (Penney); Upper Perak: 

 Kenering at 500 feet elevation (Robinson 5548). 



This tree known as the Katinga is famous in the Malay 

 peninsula for its beautiful wood. This handsome wood 

 is of light 3^ellow color, ornamented with dark brown 

 streaks and strains, fairly hard in texture and taking a 

 good polish. Mr. F. Penney obtained a considerable 

 quantity of the wood from Siamese territory Xorth of 

 Province Wellesley, from which he had made furniture, 

 boxes, etc., which was very highly valued on account of 

 its beauty. He obtained also leaves and fruit of the 

 tree. For the flowers I am indebted to Mr. H. C. 

 Robinson, who met with it in Upper Perak. 



It differs from other species of the genus in the greater 

 size of the leaves, the conspicuously stalked ovary, and 

 the remarkable fruit which resembles a citron. The 

 rind has a bitter terpentiney flavour, and the com- 

 paratively scanty pulp is quite tasteless. The fruit is 

 so entirely different from that of any other species of the 

 genus that the plant might almost be separated gener- 

 ically. 



Melastomaceae. 



Osbechia chinensis, L. 



Has been sent by Mr. Fox from Setul in Southern 

 Siam where it was collected by Mohammed Aniff, the 



Jour. Straits Branch. 



