150 G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. 2, 



Sub-genus II. Xanthochymus. 



Sepals and petals 5, all imbricate ... species 31 to 36. 



Subgenus I. Garcinia proper, sepals 4, decussate : petals 4, im- 

 cate. 



1. Garcinia eugeni^folia, Wall. Oat. 4873. A small tree; the 

 young branches thin, 4-angled, rather pale when dry. Leaves sub-coria- 

 ceous, elliptic, tapering to each end, the apex with a short blunt tail ; 

 upper surface sbining ; the lower dull, pale, opaque; nerves thin, spread- 

 ing, less than "1 in. apart, very indistinct on either surface; length 2 to 

 3 - 5 in., breadth "9 to 1'35 in., petiole "2 to - 25 in. Male flowers "2 in. in 

 diam., in axillary or terminal, minutely bracteate, 3- to 6-flowered fas- 

 cicles ; pedicels '2 in. long. Sepals 4, orbicular, the outer pair small, 

 the inner pair as large as the petals. Petals 4, orbicular, thin with a 

 circular thickened coloured fleshy spot near the base : Stamens numer- 

 ous, forming with the rudy. stigma a dense convex mass ; anthers nu- 

 merous, on both sides of 4 fleshy processes, orbicular-oblong, 2-celled, 

 the dehiscence vertical : rudy. stigma large, hemispheric, the style 

 cylindric. Female flower : '25 in. in diam., in pedunculate 3-flowered 

 cymes, sometimes several from same axil, pedicels "25 to "35 in. Sepals 4 ; 

 the outer pair small, fleshy, ovate-orbicular ; the inner pair thin, nearly 

 as large as the petals, slightly keeled at the base ; petals as in the male : 

 Staminodes and disk absent. Stigma large, hemispheric, sub-papillose, 

 entire, covering nearly the whole of the ovary. Fruit in fascicles of 2 to 

 4, globular, "75 in. in diam., smooth, brown, crowned by the papillose 

 stigma ; calyx not persistent. Hook. hi. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 268 ; Pierre Fl. 

 Forest. Coch-Chine, fasc. VI, p. vi, in part; G. brevirostris, Scheff. Obs. 

 Phyt. II, 41. 



Penang : Wallick, Curtis, No. 669. Tenasserim and Andamans ; 

 Heifer, 855. Perak ; King's Collector Nos. 8604, 5954, Wray No. 461. 



There are two specimens in the Calcutta Herbarium of G. breviros- 

 tris, Scheffer, named by the author himself ; and they agree absolutely 

 with Wallich's No. 4873. This species is quite distinct from Griffith's 

 No. 858 (Kew Dist.) from Malacca, which Pierre not only reduces here, 

 but of which he figures (tab. 90 E. F.) the flowers as the flowers of this. 

 This species does not appear to be a common one. Specimens of other 

 things appear to have been so much confounded with it, that I forbear 

 to quote more synonyms than G. brevirostris. 



2. Garcinia merguensis, Wight 111. 122, Ic. 116. A tree 30 to 

 40 feet high ; young branches thin, terete, dark brown when dry. 

 Leaves ovate-elliptic to lanceolate, bluntly caudate-acuminate, the base 

 cuneate ; upper surface when dry shining, dark brown ; the lower dull 



