1G0 
Soortechini) globular, 3 in- in diam. yellowish-green, crowned by the 
sessile, concave, ribbed stigma. Hook, fil, Fl. Br. Ind. I, 2G6 : Pierre 
VI Coch. -Chine, faac. VI, p. xxiv, tab. 80, fig. C. 
Malacca; Haingny (Kew Dist. No. 154.) Perak; Scortecbini, Wray, 
Wellesley Province, King's Collector. Penang, Curtis, No. 855. 
According to Mr. Curtis, the fruit is eattm by the Malays in curries, 
and the tree is a very handsome one with pendulous branches. I have 
not seen fully ripe fruit, and the above description of it is taken from 
Fr. Scortcchini's field notes. 
17. Gakcinia opaca, King, A tree 40 to 60 feet high j the branch lets 
when dry, dull dirty yellow, striate. Leaves oblong, narrowed at each 
end, the apex sometimes shortly acuminate, the base cuneate j upper sur- 
face slightly shining, lower surface opaque, whitish ; the rather numer- 
ous nearly horizontal nerves thin, little visible on either surface, the 
midrib bold and prominent on both; length 4 to 5 in., breadth 1'75 to 
2*25 in., petiole '6 in. Male flowers *75 in. in diam., in shortly pedicelled, 
2 to 3-flowered, ebracteolate, terminal or axillary cymes ; pedicels *25 
in., annulated ; sepals 4, obovate, concave, thin, veined; petals 4, 
similar to the sepals but a little larger: stamens numerous, on a single, 
convex, fleshy receptacle ; anthers sessile, depressed-globular, with cir- 
cumscissile dehiscence : rudy. stigma 0. Female flowers solitary, termi- 
nal : sepals more coriaceous than those of the male flower ; stami nodes 
0 ; ovary cyliudric ; stigma convex, smootli, the edge irregularly sub- 
cronate. Fruit solitary, terminal, ovate-globose, slightly mammillato, 
crowned by the broad flat stigma which has 4 broad shallow rounded 
lobes ; the sepals rounded, cartilaginous, persistent ; pericarp brown 
when dry, thin, crustaceous. Seeds several, ovoid, flattened on one side. 
(?. cornea, Wall. Cat. 4852 E. 
Perak ; King's Collector, Scortechiui. 
Distinguished by its leaves opaque and whitish beneath and with 
faint sub- horizontal nerves. In fruit this resembles Q. Fenangiana ; 
but it has a very different stigma. 
18. Gakcinia calycina, Kurz, Journ. Bot. 1875, p. 324. A shrub 15 
feet high ; young branches slender, slightly angled, pale brown when dry. 
Leaves thinly coriaceous, elliptic-oblong to elliptic, abruptly and shortly 
caudate-acuminate or sub-acute, the base cuneate ; upper surface shin- 
ing, the lower rather dull and pale ; main nerves 7 or 8 pairs forming 
bold intra- marginal arches, the intermediate nerves very numerous, all 
slightly prominent beneath; length 3 to 5 in., breadth 1 25 to 2 in., 
petiole '3 to 5 in. Male flowers 15 in. in diam., axillary, solitary or in 
2- to 3- flowered fascicles; buds globular, pedicels 15 in. long. Sepals 
and petals each 4, equal, orbicular, concave, the petals veined ; stamens 
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