pale brown, tho midrib distinct on both * nerves indistinct, thin, spread- 
ing, about "075 in, apart : length 3 to 3*5 in., breadth 1*1 to 1*4 in., 
petiole '2b in. Male jlowers '15 in. in diam., in rather dense axillary 
minutely bracteolate 3- to (j-flowered cymes longer than the petioles : 
pedicels '2 in., buds globose : sepals 4, fleshy, the onter pair small, ovate- 
orbicular, sub- acute ; the inner pair orbicular, all concave ; petals 4, 
orbicular, fleshy, concave, covering tho stigma in bud : anthers numerous 
on both sides of 4 fleshy processes, sessile, oblong, dehiscing suturally ; 
rudy. style long, cylindric, thick : stigma discoid, smooth, flat. Henna- 
phrodite flowers ; sepals 4, the outer pair as in the male ovate-orbicular, 
thin : petals 4, orbieular-reuiform, fleshy, not covering the stigma : 
stamens numerous on both sides of 4 triangular fleshy pro-cesses; 
anthers scssilo, sub-orbicular, dehiscing vertically by the sutures : 
stigma sessile, very large, hemispheric, convex, smooth, covering thu 
aulliers when young. Female jlowers; sepals 4, the outer pair much 
smaller than the inner, all thin and concave : petals 4, orbicular, about 
tho same size as the inner sepals, concave, thinly coriaceous, with a 
thickened coloured patch at tho base : sta mi nodes and disk 0 : stigma 
semi-hemispheric, almost covering the whole ovary. Fruit pedicelled, 
globular, *75 in. in diam., smooth, covered by the concave smooth 
stigma. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 207 ; Kara Fl. Burm., I, 89 : Pierre 
Flora Forest. Coch-Chin. fasc. VI, p. vi, tab. 68, 09, 91, D.. 
Malacca ; Griffith, Maingay, No. 155, Kew Distrib. Pcrak ; Scor- 
techini Nos. 244a and 812, King's Collector, No. 26G0, Wray, 1075. 
Penang ; Curtis, No. 900. 
Maingay No. 155 is the type of Pierre's species Q. fulva, but, in 
spito of very careful dissection of many of the flowers of this most 
puzzling plant, I cannot see my way to adopting that as a species 
separable from Q. merguensis, Wight. 
3, Garcinia rostrata, Benth. and Hook fil. Gen. Plantar. I, 174. 
A tree 30 to 40 feet high. Young branches terete, pale, slender. Leaves 
tli inly coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, with a rather short blunt acumen, 
the base much narrowed : both surfaces shining, tho lower rather pale, 
midrib prominent: nerves very numerous, thin, sub-horizontal, rather 
distinct when dry, especially on the lower surface ; length 2"5 to 3 5 in., 
breadth 125 to 1' 75 in , petiole "2 in. Male jlowers *15 in. in diam., in 
slender, pedunculate, lax, often dichotomous, 3- to 9-flowered cymes which 
are in fascicleB of 2 to 4 in the axils of the leaves ; buds depressed- 
globose, *1 ic. in diam. ; tho pedicels '25 to o5 in., slender: sepals 4, 
orbicular, concave, the outer pair small, fleshy, the inner thin as large as 
tho petals; petals 4, orbicular, concave, thin, each with a fleshy coloured 
piroular patch near its base: stamens numerous; anthers scssilo, on both 
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