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under 20, in a single convex group, Mir filaments very short, the con- 
nective rather thick, the elongate 2-celled anthers bent like a horse shoe 
over the apex of the connective and dehiscing along the convexity ; rudy. 
stigma 0. Female flowers larger than the male, subseasile, solitary, 
axillary ; sepals broadly ovate, the outer pair larger than the inner ; stami- 
nodes about 12, distinct, short, square ; ovary hidden by the large hemi- 
spheric, lacuuose, deeply 4-lobcd stigma. Fruit (immature) ovoid-oblong, 
smooth, the sepals persistent at its base and the apex crowued by tbe 
sessile stigma. Pierre Flore Forest. Coch.-Chine, fasc. VI, p. xxxiii, 
tab. 87 D. 
Nicobar Islands j Kurz. 
19. Garcinia costata, Homsley MSS. in Herb. Kevr. A tree 50 to 
70 feet high; young brauches pale, flattened. Leaves thinly coriaceous, 
elliptic, acnte, the base cuneate ; both surfaces rather dull, the lower paler ; 
nerves bold, spreading, 13 to 18 pairs, very distinct on the lower surface 
when dry ; length G to 14 in., breadth 35 to 6 in. * petiole 1 to 15 in., 
«tont. Male flowers 1 to 1'25 in. in diam., in shortly peduncled, 3- to 5- 
fiowered, terminal cymes ; pedicels '25 to '5 in. Sepals 4, equal, orbicular, 
fleshy, concave. Petals larger than the sepals, pale yellow with a reddish 
tinge, orbicular-ovate, fleshy, concave. S/amerwnnmei-ous, forming with 
the discoid stigma an oblong 4-angled mass ; filaments short, thick, in- 
serted on a fleshy receptacle ; anthers thick, cuneate with flattish tops, 
2-cel\ed ; the cells large, curved, with extrorse longitudinal dehiscence ; 
rudimentary stigma large, discoid. Fem a le flowers solitary, terminal, on 
short thick pedicels : sepals and petals as in the male : staminodes about 
12 : ovary with many vertical grooves ; stigma large, discoid, with 
radiating grooves corresponding to those of the ovary, the edge wavy. 
Fruit depressed-spheroidal, 3 in. in diam. by 2 in. high, with many deep 
vertical grooves, pale rose-coloured to crimson. 
Perak; on Gunong Bubo at elevations of 2500 to 3000 feet, King's 
Collector ; Maxwell's hill, Wray. 
A remarkably fine species, at once known by its large deeply 
grooved eatable frnit. 
20. Gaijcinia Ghii fitiiii, T. Anders, in Hook, Fl. Ind. I, ICS. A 
tree 60 to 100 feet high, the young branches sub-tetragonouB, yellovviBh- 
green. Leaves large, coriaceous, bullate, oval to ovate-elliptic, sub-acute 
or rather blunt ; the base slightly narrowed, sometimes slightly cordate ; 
both surfaces shining, the lower paler ; midrib stout ; nerves 16 to 24 
pairs, bold, sub-horizontal ; length 9 to 16 in., breadth 4 to 8 in., petiole 
•6 in, Male flowers 75 in. in diam., in dense 3 to 10-flowered cymes 
from tubercles in the axils of leaves or of fallen leaves ; pedicels '25 in. 
Sepals 4, equal, orbicular, fleshy, concave. Fetuls 4, oblong, blunt 
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