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fleshy, red. Stamens from 25 to 40, in a square flat- topped mass I 
auLhers nearly sessile, hroadly oblong, the connective wide; the cells 2, 
Lateral, slightly curved, their dehiscence longitudinal ; rudy. ovary 0. 
Female Jlotvers in few-flowered axillary cymes ; pedicels thick, "2 in. long. 
Sepals and petals as in the male ; staminodes in 4 bundles of unequal 
length : ovary ribbed, 12-celled ; style very Bhort ; stigma with many 
conical papillae, peltate, slightly depressed in the middle, its margins 
crenate, Fruit sub-globular, 2 to 3 in. in diam. when ripe, greenish, 
yellow, crowned by the concave papillate stigma, very glutinous. Pierre 
Flore Coch. -Chine, fasc. VI, p. xxvi, tab. BO, fig. B. 
Malacca; Griffith 801, Maitigay lo3 (Kew Distrib). Perak, com- 
mon. Pangkoro, Curtis 1609. Distrib. Sumatra; Forbes, No. 2994. 
21. Garcinia Forbesh, King, n. sp. A small tree, young branches 
subtetragonous, yellowish. Leaves thinly coriaceous, oblanceolate to ovate- 
lanceolate, shortly acuminate, the base cuneate ; both surfaces slightly 
dull when dry, the lower slightly pale ; nerves spreading, anastomosing 
with an intra-marginal nerve, *15 in. apart, the intermediate rather bold, 
all distinct below when dry ; length 3'5 to 5 in. breadth l"5 to 2 5 in., 
petiole 3 to 4 in. Male flowers '25 in. diam. in 3 or 4-flowered clusters 
from small axillary tubercles, buds sub-globose, pedicels '1 to "15 in. 
Sepals 4, equal, rather thin, pale-coloured, orbicular, concave. Petals 4, 
fleshy, orbicular, dark-coloured, concave. Statnens numerous, in a single 
convex mass, the connective small ; anthers sessile, sub-orbicular, 2-cellcd 
with longitudiual dehiscence ; rudy. ovary 0. Female Jlowers axillary, 
solitary, sessile : sepals 4, broadly ovate, blunt, fleshy, concave; petals 4, 
orbicular, fleshy, concave, red to orange ; stigma sessile, convex, com- 
pletely covering the ovary, entire, its surface with prominent glandular 
papilhB. Fruit (young) ovoid, crowned by the stigma. 
Perak; Wray 3396. Sumatra; Forbes Nos. 2936 and 3152. 
22. Garcinia bancana, Miq. PI. Ind. Bat. Suppl., 494. A tree 60 
to 80 feet high ; young branches stout, nodular, not angled, black and 
shining when dry. Leaves coriaceous, large, broadly obovate- lanceolate ; 
the apex rounded, often slightly and bluntly mucronate : much narrowed 
in the lower third iuto the stout winged petiole ; upper surface shining, 
the numerous and very oblique nerves distinct ; lower surface dull, 
opaque, pale brown, the nerves obsolete ; midrib prominent in both ; 
length 5 to 7 in., breadth 2 to 3 in., petiole "75 to 1*25 in. Male foivers 
15 in. in diam., in crowded fascicles of 6 to 12, from short densely 
bracteolate tubercles in the axils of leaves or of fallen leaves ; pedicels 
unequal, '25 to '5 iu. long; bracteoles ovate, coloured, 1 in. or less. 
Sepals 4, orbicnlar, concave, fleshy, the outer pair larger than the 
inner. Petals 4, ovate, blunt, fleshy, concave. Stamens numerous, iu a 
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