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4, orbicular, fleshy, concave, the outer pair rather smaller than the 
inner. Petals 4, larger than the sepals, ovate-orbicular, fleshy, concave. 
Stamens very numerous, forming with the rudimentary pistil a dense 
globular mass ; the filaments slender, in several rows from a stipitate 
fleshy receptacle ; antherR oblong, curved, 2-celled, with extrorse longi- 
tudinal dehiscence ; rudy. pistil cylindric, with a broad discoid stigma. 
Female jlmcers solitary, terminal, sub-sessile; sepals and petals as in the 
male but smaller } staminodes few, slender ; ovary globose 4 to 6-celled; 
the stigma large, convex, papillose, entire or very slightly 4-Iobed. 
Fruit globular, 2 to 2 5 in. in diam. when quite ripe ; crowned by the 
large, flat, discoid, papillose, slightly 4-lobed stigma. Pierre Flore 
Coch.-Chine, fasc. VI, p. xvii. 
Perak; common. Malacca; Maingay (Kew Dist. 160 and 161). 
Pangkore ; Curtis No. 1610. 
In Scortechini's field-note on this species, the young branches are 
described as terete; but, in the dried state, they are distinctly 4- 
angled, 
Var. slylosa ; stigma on a thick stylo 3 in, long. 
Perak. King's Collector, No. 5350. 
Only specimens with immature fruit are known, but these diffi-T 
from the typical form in no respect except the stout style. 
16. Garcinu atroviridis, Griff. MSS. A graceful tree 40 to 60 feet 
high ; the young Ranches rather thick, sub-terete, yellowish-grey when 
dry. Leaves coriaceous, both surfaces shining ; narrowly oblong, very 
shortly but sharply acuminate, the base cuneate ; nerves numerous, spread- 
ing, straight, indistinct when fresh, but rather distinct when dry, anas- 
tomosing *05 to 1 in. from the edge with a tine mtra-marginal nerve : 
length 4*5 to 8 in., breadth 1*25 to 2 in., petiole, 6 to '75 in, Male flowers 
125 in. in diam., in terminal clusters of few-flowered cymes, pedicels un- 
equal, from "25 in. to "75 in,, long. Sepals 4, fleshy, concave ; the outer 
pair orbicular or transversely oblong ; the inner pair broadly oblong or 
orbicular, fleshy with tliin edges, larger than the outer pair, streaked 
with red inside. Petals 4, orbicular-obovate, concave, fleshy, larger 
than the Bepals, red. Stamens very numerous, forming with the large 
convex rudimentary stigma a globose mass ; filaments slender, nearly 
as long as the anthers, inserted in whorls on a thin annular fleshy recep- 
taclo : anthers narrowly oblong, 2-cellcd, extrorse, the dehiscence longi- 
tudinal. Rudy, style cylindric. Female flowers terminal, solitary, rarefy 
geminate ; sepals and petals as in the male, but the petals smaller ; 
s!<niiinodes small, attached to a thin fleshy wavy anuulus which sur- 
rounds the ribbed, snb-cylindric, 12- to lti-celled ovary. Stigma thick, 
fleshy, very convex, pileate, deep red, the edges undulate. Fruit ( ftde 
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