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branous, oblanccolate to narrowly ovate-lanceolate, shortly but sharply 
acuminate, the base much narrowed; smooth oiiboth surfaces, the lower 
rather pale ; nerves indistinct, spreading, 9 to 13 pairs, some of the 
intermediate almost as distinct aa the primary ; length 3*5 to 5 in., 
breadth 1*15 to 1*8 in., petiole *35 to *6 in. Male flowers nbout *15 in. 
in diam., in small axillary or terminal fascicles of 3 to 6. Sepals 4, orbi- 
cular, fleshy, concave, their edges thin. Petals 4, broadly ovate, blunt, 
fleshy, concave. Shramis about 15, forming a convex mass; the anthers 
transversely flattened, 4-celled, the connective broad ; rudimentary piHt.il 
0. Female flowers solitary ; sepals 4, orbicular, membranous, veined. 
Petals 0. Staminodes 4, with filaments half as long as the ovary, and flnt 
squareheads. Ovary thick, cylindric, vertically grooved; the stigma 
convex, with large prominent black-tipped conical papilla?, and with about 
10 inconspicuous lobes. Fruit orange-yellow, depressed, sub-globose, 
nearly 15 in. in diam., smooth, the sepals persistent at its base for some 
i tme< 
Perak; at low elevations, common: King's Collector, Scortechini, 
Wray. 
This is allied to the Burmese £?. linoceroides, T. Anders. ; but has 
smaller flowers, fewer stamens and more acuminate leaves. 
27. Garcinia ScORTECmKn, King, n. Rp. A tree 20 to 40 feet high ; 
branchlets yellowish, slightly angled. Leaves thinly coriaceous, ovate- 
elliptic, occasionally ovate- lanceolate, shortly and rather bluntly acumi- 
nate, the base acute: both surfaces shining, the lower rather paler; 
main nerves 5 or 6 pairs, spreading, anastomising *2 in. from the margin, 
very distinct on the under surface when dry, reticulations indistinct ; 
length 2 75 to 4'75 in., breadth 15 to 2*5 in t petiole '25 in. Male 
flowers *2 in. in diam., sessile or short 1)' pedicellate, in clusters of 3 to 6 
from small axillary tubercles ; sepals 4, orbicular, concave, thin, veined ; 
petals 4, broadly ovate, fleshy, concave ; stamens varying from 10 
to 20, inserted on a 4-angled receptacle ; anthers with circular peltate 
tops, the connective in the centre the cells circumferential, dehisc- 
ing along the edge; filaments slender, shorter than the anthers; 
rudimentary pistil 0. Female flowers nearly *5 in. in diam., axillary, 
solitary, sessile or shortly pedicellate. Ovary globose ; stigma seBsile, 
with large lobules, obscurely 4-lobed. Fruit globular, *6 to '75 in. in 
diam. ; the pericarp thick, leathery ; seeds about 4. 
Perak, common. Malacca; Griffith (Kew Distrib. 859). Penang, 
Curtis, 1249. 
This is not very different from G CJioisyana^ Wall, to which indeed 
Pierre refers the Grillithian specimen §59, But Wallioh's specimens of 
(7. Cht'isjftttut have leaves of so much thinner texture that, on the strength 
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