20 NEW OR RAKE MALAYAN PLANTS. 



Garcinia globulosa, n. sp. 



A fairly tall straight tree with rough bark scaling 

 off. Loaves elliptic acuminate thinly coriaceous many- 

 nerved, the nerves fairly conspicuous, 2 to 3 inches long, 

 and 1J inch wide, the petiole \ inch long. The male 

 flowers in terminal or axillery umbels bright yellow 6 or 

 8 in an umbel, pedicels \ inch long. Sepals 4 rounded 

 gibbous small yellow. Petals 4 oblong rounded at the 

 tip, I inch long lemon-yellow. Stamens about 20 in a 

 cluster on a short eylindrie column, anthers brown square 

 flat at the top. Female flowers in terminal and axillary 

 umbels of -I- or 5, larger pedicel thicker and angled. 

 Sepals rounded orbicular ,Y> inch long. Pistil ovoid. 

 Stigma not stalked large rounded pustular. Fruit glo- 

 bose orange half an inch through, not umbonate. Stig- 

 ma sunk in a depression and almost concealed. " Kan- 

 dis " common in forests. 



Singapore: Common Garden Jungle (Ridley 9195), 

 Bukit Timah (9142, 4450), Selitar (266, 1968, 1966, 

 1825), Alma and Changi (Hullett 41) : Malacca: Bukit 

 Bruang (Goodenough 1270), Selandor (Cantley) ; Se- 

 langor:-near Ulu Selangor (King's Coll. 8539); Perak : 

 Batu Togoh (Wray 2531 and 3183). 



This is the common little round fruited Kandis 

 of the forests which is quite pleasant to eat. It often 

 fruits heavily and one can get quite a basket of it from 

 one tree. I once attempted to cook it to see if it would 

 do for a pie, but found it not a success. It seemed to 

 develop an astringency and toughness in the skin on 

 cooking that spoilt it- 

 er, parvifolia, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 495. 



A small tree much branched with rather rough bark, 

 but not scaly as in the preceding. Leaves dark green 

 thinly coriaceous dull elliptic acuminate narrowed at the 

 base, apex cuspidate 4^ inches long 1J inch wide, with a 

 cusp half an inch long, the petiole half an inch. Male 

 flowers in loose heads of 2 or 3 on pedicels J inch long. 

 Sepals 4 short ovate yellow. Petals 4 oblong tip round- 

 jour Straits Branch 



