1890.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 151 



pale brown, the midrib distinct on both ; nerves indistinct, thin, spread- 

 ing, about "075 in. apart : length 3 to 35 in., breadth 11 to 1*4 in., 

 petiole '25 in. Male flowers - 15 in. in diam., in rather dense axillary 

 minutely bracteolate 3- to 6-flowered cymes longer than the petioles : 

 pedicels '2 in., buds globose : sepals 4, fleshy, the outer pair small, ovate- 

 orbicular, sub-acute ; the inner pair orbicular, all concave ; petals 4, 

 orbicular, fleshy, concave, covering the stigma in bud : anthers numerous 

 on both sides of 4 fleshy processes, sessile, oblong, dehiscing suturally ; 

 rudy. style long, cylindric, thick : stigma discoid, smooth, flat. Herma- 

 phrodite flowers ; sepals 4, the outer pair as in the male ovate-orbicular, 

 thin: petals 4, ox'bicular-reniform, fleshy, not covering the stigma: 

 stamens numerous on both sides of 4 triangular fleshy pro-cesses ; 

 anthers sessile, sub-orbicular, dehiscing vertically by the sutures : 

 stigma sessile, very large, hemispheric, convex, smooth, covering the 

 anthers when young. Female flowers ; sepals 4, the outer pair much 

 smaller than the inner, all thin and concave : petals 4, orbicular, about 

 the same size as the inner sepals, concave, thinly coriaceous, with a 

 thickened coloured patch at the base : staminodes and disk : stigma 

 semi-hemispheric, almost covering the whole ovaiy. Fruit pedicelled, 

 globular, '75 in. in diam., smooth, covered by the concave smooth 

 stigma. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 267 ; Kurz PL Burin., I, 89 : Pierre 

 Flora Forest. Coch-Chin. fasc. VI, p. vi, tab. 68, 69, 91, D.. 



Malacca ; Griffith, Maingay, No. 155, Kew Distiib. Perak ; Scor- 

 techini Nos. 244a and 812, King's Collector, No. 2660, Wray, 1075. 

 Penang ; Curtis, No. 900. 



Maingay No. 155 is the type of Pierre's species G. fulva, but, in 

 spite of very careful dissection of many of the flowers of this most 

 puzzling plant, I cannot see my way to adopting that as a species 

 separable from G. merguensis, Wight. 



3. Garcinia rosteata, Benth. and Hook fil. Gen. Plantar. I, 174. 

 A tree 30 to 40 feet high. Young branches terete, pale, slender. Leaves 

 thinly coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, with a rather short blunt acumen, 

 the base much narrowed : both surfaces shining, the lower rather pale, 

 midrib prominent : nerves very numerous, thin, sub-horizontal, rather 

 distinct when dry, especially on the lower surface ; length 2'5 to 3'5 in., 

 breadth 1/25 to 1*75 in., petiole - 2 in. Male flowers 15 in. in diam., in 

 slender, pedunculate, lax, often dichotomous, 3- to 9-flowered cymes which 

 are in fascicles of 2 to 4 in the axils of the leaves ; buds depressed- 

 globose, 1 in. in dkm. ; the pedicels "25 to '35 in., slender: sepals 4, 

 orbicular, concave, the outer pair small, fleshy, the inner thin as large as 

 the petals: petals 4, orbicular, concave, thin, each with a fleshy coloured 

 circular patch near its base: stamens numerous; anthers sessile, on both 



