157 
Burm. I, 87; Lanes3au Mem. Garcin. 15: Pierre Flor. Forest. Cochin- 
Chine t. 54. 
Wild and cultivated in the Malayan Peninsula and Archipelago : 
cultivated also in Burma, Ceylon and a few places in the S. of India. 
12, Garcinia MiciiosiiGMA, Kurz, Journ. Bot. 1875, p. 324; For. 
Flora Burniah, I, VI. A shrub 4 to (i feet high : young brunches ob- 
scurely 4*angled, the bark dark-coloured. Leaves elliptic to elliptic-ob- 
long or lanceolate, sub-acute, the base cuneato ; rather dull on both 
surfaces when dry, the midrib distinct beneath ; main nerves 7 to 8 
pairs, thin, intcrarching "1 to *2 in. from the margin ; length 3 to 4 in., 
breadth 1*5 to 2 '3 in., petiole '5 to "75 in. Male flowers '3 in. in diam., 
iu 2 to 341owered, few bracteoled, axillary cymes ; buds globose ; pedi- 
cels '2 to "25 iu. long ; sepals 4, the outer pair ovate-acute, fleshy, keel- 
ed, the edges thin, longer than the inner obovate-orbicular, very con- 
cave, thinner pair : petals 4, obovate-orbicular, fleshy, concave, about 
the same size as the inner sepals and barely covering the stamens ; stamen s 
about 20, on a single convex receptacle, filaments short; anthers ivd, 
broadly ovate, 2-celled, the dehiscence longitudinal : rudy. stigma 0. 
Female flowers (tide Kurz) on shorter pedicels than the male and pro- 
bably solitary, terminal. Fruit, globose, 1*5 to 2 in. in. diam., the 
pericarp smooth, thin, red, the sepals persistent at its base, and its 
apex bearing the very minute discoid sessilo entire stigma ; seeds 2 or 
more. Pierre Fl. Forest. Coch-Chine, fasc. VI, p. xix. 
South Andaman ; Kurz. 
13. Gaecinia Penanuiaxa, Pierre, Fl. Forest. Cochin-Chine, fasc. 
vi, p. xxxvii, No. 46a. A slender tree 20 to 30 feet high ; the young 
branches glossy, pale brown when dry, slightly 4-anglcd. Leaves oh- 
long-laueeolato, shortly and rather bluntly acuminate, the base cuneate ; 
upper surface shining, the lower slightly dull and paler, both, (but especi- 
ally the lower) with a reddish tint when dry ; the midrib stout: nerves 
close, straight, sub-horizontal, faintly visible; length 4'5 to 7 in,, 
breadth 1*5 to 2*5, or even 3 in. ; petiole "5 in. or less. Male jlowers L 
in. in diam., in terminal fascicles of 3 to 6, pedicels about "5 in. SepaU 
4 ; the outer pair rotund, fleshy, very concave ; the inner pair larger, 
thinner, elliptic, obtuse. Petals 4, rather longer than the inner sepals, 
oblong, blunt, creamy-white. Stamens indefinite, the filaments united 
in a slightly 4-lobed short fleshy mnss j anthers short, broad, with 
longitudinal dehiscence ; pistil 0. Female jlowers terminal, solitary, 
larger than the male nnd on shorter stouter peduncles. Style short, 
thick : ovary globular ; the stigma largo, convex, hemispherical, corru- 
gnted, and deeply 4-lobod ; stamens none. Ripe fruit globular, moro 
than 1 75 in, in diam., crowned by the persistent stigma, the thickened 
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