1890.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 161 



under 20, in a single convex group, the filaments very short, the con- 

 nective rather thick, the elongate 2-celled anthers bent like a horse shoe 

 over the apex of the connective and dehiscing along the convexity ; rndy, 

 stigma 0. Female flowers larger than the male, snbsessile, solitary, 

 axillary ; sepals broadly ovate, the outer pair larger than the inner ; stami- 

 nodes about 12, distinct, short, square; ovary hidden by the large hemi- 

 spheric, lacunose, deeply 4-lobed stigma. Fruit (immature) ovoid-oblong, 

 smooth, the sepals persistent at its base and the apex crowned by the 

 sessile stigma. Pierre Flore Forest. Coch .-Chine, fasc. VI, p. xxxiii, 

 tab. 87 D. 



Nicobar Islands ; Kurz. 



19. Garcinia costata, Hemsley MSS. in Herb. Kew. A tree 50 to 

 70 feet high; young branches pale, flattened. Leaves thinly coriaceous, 

 elliptic, acute, the base cuneate ; both surfaces rather dull, the lower paler ; 

 nerves bold, spreading, 13 to 18 pairs, very distinct on the lower surface 

 when dry ; length 6 to 14 in., breadth 3'5 to 6 in. ; petiole 1 to 1*5 in., 

 stout. Male flowers 1 to l - 25 in. in diam., in shortly peduncled, 3- to 5- 

 flowered, terminal cymes ; pedicels "25 to "5 in. Sepals 4, equal, orbicular, 

 fleshy, concave. Petals larger than the sepals, pale yellow with a reddish 

 tinge, orbicular-ovate, fleshy, concave. Stamens numerous, forming with 

 the discoid stigma an oblong 4-angled mass ; filaments short, thick, in- 

 serted on a fleshy receptacle ; anthers thick, cuneate with flattish tops, 

 2-celled ; the cells large, curved, with extrorse longitudinal dehiscence ; 

 rudimentary stigma large, discoid. Female flowers solitary, terminal, on 

 short thick pedicels : sepals and petals as in the male : staminodes about 

 12 : ovary with many vertical grooves ; stigma large, discoid, with 

 radiating grooves corresponding to those of the ovary, the edge wavy. 

 Fruit depressed-spheroidal, 3 in. in diam. by 2 in. high, with many deep 

 vertical grooves, pale rose-coloured to crimson. 



Perak ; on Gunong Bubo at elevations of 2500 to 3000 feet, King's 

 Collector ; Maxwell's hill, Wray. 



A remarkably fine species, at once known by its large deeply 

 grooved eatable fruit. 



20. Garcinia Griffithii, T. Anders, in Hook. Fl. Ind. I, 266. A 

 tree 60 to 100 feet high, the young branches sub-tetragonous, yellowish- 

 green. Leaves large, coriaceous, bullate, oval to ovate-elliptic, sub-acute 

 or rather blunt ; the base slightly narrowed, sometimes slightly cordate ; 

 both surfaces shining, the lower paler; midrib stout; nerves 16 to 24 

 pairs, bold, sub-horizontal ; length 9 to 16 in., breadth 4 to 8 in., petiole 

 •6 in. Male flowers '75 in. in diam., in dense 3 to 10-flowered cymes 

 from tubercles in the axils of leaves or of fallen leaves ; pedicels '25 in. 

 Sepals 4, equal, orbicular, fleshy, concave. Petals . 4, oblong, blunt 



