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



sepals persistent at its base ; pericarp thin, crustaceous. Seeds few, ovate. 

 G. cornea, Wall. Oat. 4852 D. ; Hook. fil. PI. Br. Ind. I, 260 (in pari). 

 G. fascicular -is, Wall. Cat. 4853, Pierre 1. c, p. xvi. 



Penang; Porter (Wallieh's Collector), Curtis. Perak ; King's 

 Collector, Scortechini. 



This plant, first distinguished as a species by M. Pierre, seems 

 to be rather common in Penang and Perak. Ripe fruits are as yet un- 

 known : those in Mr. Kunstler's specimens No. 3583 (noted by him as 

 unripe) measure 1'25 in. in diam. A fruit on one of Scortechini's 

 specimens measures half an inch more. Mr. Kunstler notes the tree 

 as occurring at elevations of 300 up to 3,000 feet. The foregoing de- 

 scription of the flower does not quite agree with that of M. Pierre, 

 which was drawn up from specimens without female flowers and with 

 buds only of the male flowers. 



14. Garcinia malaccensis, Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 261. A tree; 

 the branchlets rather stout, 4-angled. Leaves brown when dry, elliptic, 

 shortly and abruptly acuminate, the base much narrowed, shining above, 

 the lower surface rather dull ; midrib bold, prominent on both surfaces ; 

 nerves numerous, faint, sub-horizontal, connected by oblique secondary 

 nerves ; length 4 to 8 in., breadth 15 to 2 - 5 in. ; petiole "4 to "6 in., 

 channelled. Male flowers 1 in. in diam., in terminal fascicles p£ 4 to 6 ; 

 pedicels '35 to "65 in. long. Sepals orbicular, concave, fleshy. Petals 

 twice as long as the sepals, dull red, broadly ovate, shortly clawed. 

 Stamens very numerous, densely imbricated in a sub-cylindric or conical 

 truncate mass formed of the fleshy conjoined filaments ; anthers adnate, 

 broadly ovoid, 2-celled, the connective broad : stigma large, convex. 

 Ovary abortive. Female flowers 15 to 2 in. in diam. terminal, solitary, 

 red. Staminodes few or 0. Ovary globose, 8-celled ; stigma sessile, 

 large, convex, enveloping half the ovary, much corrugated and deeply 

 8-lobed. Fruit unknown. Pierre Flore Forest. Coch. -Chine, fasc. VI, 

 p. xi, t. 78, fig. D. 



Malacca; Maingay (Kew Distrib. No. 149). Of this I have seen 

 only Maingay's specimens. In its leaves, in the colour of its flowers, 

 and in its 8-lobed stigma, this resembles G. mangostana. 



15. Garcinia maingayi, Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 267. A tree 40 to 

 60 feet high ; young branches thick, 4-angled, and dark-coloured when 

 dry. Leaves oblong-elliptic, obtuse with short blunt apiculus, the base 

 narrowed ; both surfaces shining, the lower pale brown when dry ; 

 nerves 9 to 13 pairs, bold, spreading, prominent beneath as is the midrib ; 

 length 45 to 7 in., breadth 2'25 to 3'25 in., petiole - 75 in. Male flowers 

 1 to 1"25 in. in diam., waxy white, in terminal or axillary, 3 to 6- 

 flowcred, shortly peduncled umbels ; pedicels '25 to '5 in, long. Sepals 



