1890.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 171 



but he adopts Kurz's name for the latter. The variety named above 

 pubescens may turn out to be a distinct species. At present only fruit- 

 ing specimens of it are known. This species is closely allied to Q. 

 Villersiana, Pierre, a common Cambodian plant. The leaves of the 

 latter, as shown in Pierre's figure (Fl. Forest Cochin-Chine, t. 21) have 

 however more nerves ; the flowers have longer pedicels, and the staminal 

 bundles are longer and more slender than in this species : the lobes of 

 the disk are also narrower and longer. 



This is the Helferian plant referred to under O. XantJiochymus in 

 Fl. Br. Ind. i, 269, as allied to, but differing from that species. 



35. Garcinia densiflora, King, n. sp. A tree 60 to 80 feet high : 

 young branches stout, 4-angled, brown when dry. Leaves thickly coriace- 

 ous, broadly elliptic to elliptic-oblong, sub-acute or rather blunt, the base 

 cuneate ; both surfaces shining; the midrib stout: nerves 10 to 12 pairs, 

 sub-horizontal, anastomising by arches - 1 in. from the margin; length 4'5 

 to 6 in., breadth 2'5 to 3'75 in. ; petiole "6 in., thick, deeply channelled. 

 Male floivers '35 in. in diam., in large dense many-flowered clusters 1 to 

 15 in. in diam., on bracteolate tubercles from the axils of the fallen 

 leaves; buds globose ; pedicels unequal, from - 2 to '35 in. long : sepals 5, 

 the 3 outer smaller than the inner 2, or-bicular, fleshy, concave, puberulous 

 externally, the margins ciliolate ; the inner 2 as large as the petals, 

 glabrous, the margins ciliolate ; petals 5, fleshy, orbicular, concave, 

 yellow ; stamens in 5 pedicelled, fan-shaped branches of about 12 : fila- 

 ments thick, fleshy ; anthers with 2 orbicular, suturally dehiscent, cells : 

 Disk large, fleshy, much corrugated, with 5 radiating lobes which al- 

 ternate with the staminal groups ; rudy. style cylindric, corrugated ; the 

 stigma oblong, smooth, small. Female flower and fruit unknown. 



Perak ; at elevations under 1000 feet, King's Collector, No. 5933. 

 A very distinct species collected only once. 



36. Garcinia Prainiana, King n. sp. A small tree : young branches 

 terete or compressed, not angled, pale yellowish. Leaves more or less 

 broadly elliptic-oblong, narrowed to the rounded or slightly cordate 

 base, shining on both surfaces ; nerves 12 to 15 pairs, spreading, inter- 

 arching submarginally, rather prominent beneath when dry ; intermediate 

 nerves prominent, bifurcating ; the midrib stout; length 4"5 to 9 in., 

 breadth 175 to 4 iu. ; petiole - 25 in., stout. Male floivers '4 in. in diam., 

 iu dense, 6 to 12-flowered, bracteate, terminal cymes; bracts numerous, 

 lanceolate, fleshy, keeled ; pedicels thick, flat ; sepals 5, fleshy, concave, 

 orbicular ; petals 5, darker in colour than the sepals, fleshy, concave, 

 sub-orbicular : stamens numerous, in a 5-lobed annulus round the globose 

 rudimentary ovary, 2-celled, with sutural dehiscence. Female floivers 

 unknown. Fruit (young 13 in diam.) globular, pulpy, smooth, crowned 



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