1890.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 163 



convex sub-cylindric mass : the anthers snb-sessile, broad, with 2 small 

 oval cells at the extremities of the transversely lengthened connective ; 

 rudimentary pistil 0. Female floiver solitary ?, sub-sessile ; staminodes 

 6 to 10, solitary or in two or three groups. Ovary sessile, globular, 

 slightly grooved vertically : stigma hemispheric, with 8 triangular rays. 

 Fruit ovoid, 1"25 in. long, and 11 in. diam. ; about 8-seeded. Miq. 

 Ann. Mus. Lugd Bat. I, 208 ; Hook. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 263 ; Scheff. Obs. 

 Phyt. pt. ii, 41 ; Pierre Flore Forest. Cochin-Chine fasc. VI, pp. xxvi 

 and xxxviii. Garcinia Lamponga, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 494 ; Ann. 

 Mus. Lugd. Bat. I, 208 ; Pierre 1. c. G. Ilookeri, Pierre 1. c. p. xxvii. 

 G. leucandra, Pierre, 1. c. xxvii. 



Perak ; King's Collector, Scortechini. Malacca ; Maingay (No. 158, 

 Kew Dist.). Distrib. Banka, Sumatra. 



I have examined the type specimens of Miquel's G. bancana and 

 Lamponga, and I believe them to belong to one and the same species. 

 One of his Sumatran specimens of G. Lamponga bears, however, besides 

 leaves of the shape described above, some that are broadly elliptic. 

 Pierre reduces to this two more of Miquel's Sumatran species, namely, 

 G. oxyedra and G. ? oxyphylla (Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 494, 495) ; but of 

 these I have not seen Miquel's types. 



23. Garcinia Cowa, Roxb. Fl. Ind. II, 622. A dioecious tree 30 to 

 60 feet high : young branches slender, not angled, dark-coloured when 

 dry. Leaves broadly lanceolate, acute at both ends, the apex sometimes 

 acuminate, both surfaces rather dull when dry : the nerves thin but 

 rather distinct when dry, numerous, rather straight, oblique ; length 

 3'5 to 5 in. breadth 1 to 1"75 in. petiole - 3 to "5 in. Male flowers - 4 in. 

 in diam., axillary or terminal, in fascicles of 3 to 8 ; pedicels "25 in. 

 Sepals broadly ovate, fleshy, yellow. Petals twice as long as the sepals, 

 obovate or oblong, blunt, yellow. Stamens numerous, on a convex fleshy 

 receptacle, anthers 4-celled, stigma rudimentary. Female Jloivers - 8 in. 

 in diam., terminal, in fascicles of 2 or 3, pedicellate like the males ; 

 ovary sub-globose, 6 to 8-celled ; stigma sessile, flat, deeply divided into 

 6 or 8, papillose, wedge-shaped rays ; staminodes in 4 clusters of 3 to 8, 

 unequal. Fruit globular-depressed, not mammillate, with 4 to 8 vertical 

 grooves, smooth, yellow, '8 to 1*5 in. in diam.; pericarp thin; seeds 

 "5 to "75 in. long, oblong, with a soft arillus. DO. Prodr. i, 561; W. 

 and A. Prodr. i, 101 ; Chois. Guttif. Ind. 34; Planch, and Triana Mem. 

 Guttif . 186 ; Wall. Cat. 4863 ; Lanessan Mem. Garcin. 54 ; G. Box- 

 burghii, Wight Ic. 104. Kurz For. Fl. Burm. I, 90. Oxycarpus Gangetica, 

 Ham. in Mem. Wern. Soc. V, 344. 



Andaman Islands ? Distrib. Assam and base of the Khasia Hills, 

 Chittagong, Burmah ; in tropical forests. 

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