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



branches 4-angled, yellow. Leaves thinly coriaceous, ovate-lanceolate to 

 oblong-lanceolate, shortly caudate-acuminate, the base acute ; both sur- 

 faces shining, the lower pale, opaque ; nerves 7 to 9 pairs, bold and promi- 

 nent beneath as are some of the secondary nerves ; length 4'5 to 5'5 in., 

 breadth 1*5 to 2 in., petiole '25 in. Male flowers about "2 in. in diam. in 

 dense 6 to 10-flowered fascicles from small minutely bracteolate axillary 

 tubercles; buds turbinate; pedicels slender, - 1 in. or less in length; 

 sepals 4, membranous, orbicular, concave ; the outer pair much smaller 

 and thicker, keeled ; petals 4, smaller than the sepals, fleshy, orbicular, 

 concave : stamens from a small receptacle ; filaments short ; anthers 

 broadly reniform, the connective expanded transversely, the cells some- 

 times confluent, bent round it, and dehiscing along the convexity ; rudy. 

 stigma 0. Female flowers on axillary tubercles like the males, but 

 fewer-flowered : sepals as in the male but subequal : petals as in the 

 male ; staminodes about 10, distinct, the filaments broad, the pseud - 

 anthers flat, ovate : stigma convex with 8 radiating ridges, its margin 

 8-angled ; ovary thick, cylindric, nearly as wide as the stigma. Fruit 

 (fide Kunstler) ovoid, pointed. 



Perak; at low elevations, Wray No. 2162, King's Collector, No. 

 2531. 



Subgenus II. Xanthochymus, Roxb. (Gen.). Sepals and petals 

 5, very rarely 4. Filaments connate in 5, rarely in 4, erect distant pedi- 

 celled spathulate bodies, antheriferous at the top, free portions very 

 short, incurved ; anthers small, didymous. 



31. Garcinia Xanthochymus, Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 269. A me- 

 dium-sized tree ; the branches glabrous, angled. Leaves glabrous, shining ; 

 narrowly oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acute, the base cuneate ; nerves 

 numerous, not prominent ; length 8 to 15 in., breadth l - 75 to 3'75 in., 

 petiole about '75 in. Male flowers '5 to "75 in. in diam., in 4-10-flowered 

 fascicles, axillary or from the axils of fallen leaves, greenish-white ; 

 pedicels stout, '5 to 1 in. long. Sepals '25 in. in diam., orbicular, unequal, 

 fleshy, concave. Petals "35 in., orbicular, spreading, thin. Stamens in 

 5 broad bundles of 3 to 5, alternating with 5 fleshy glands : anthers 2- 

 celled. Hermaph. flower like the male, the pedicels 2 or 3 times as long. 

 Ovary ovoid, pointed, usually 5-celled; stigma with 5, spreading, oblong 

 blunt lobes. Ripe fruit globose, pointed, 2'5 in. in diam., dark yellow. 

 Seeds 1 to 4, oblong. Kurz For. Flora Burma i, 93 ; Pierre Flore 

 Forest. Cochin-Chine, fasc. VI, p. iii, t. 21 A. Xanthochymus pictorius, 

 Roxb. Corom. PI. ii, 51, t. 196 ; Fl. Ind. ii, 633. X. tinctorius, DC. 

 Prodr. i, 562 ; Chois. Guttif. Ind. 32 ; Planch, and Triana Mem. Guttif. 

 149; W. and A. Prodr. 102; Wall. Cat. 4837, except C. 



Andamans, Penang. Distrib. Burmah and Chittagong, base of E, 

 Himalaya and Assam, S. India up to 1500 feet. 



