i8o ‘ XVIII. GUTTIFER<E. [Garcinia. 
(35) G. Prainiana King, l.c. 171. 
A stout cylindric tree about 30 ft. tall. Branchlets not angled. 
Leaves deep green coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, narrowed to the 
rounded or cordate base; nerves 12 to 15 pairs inarching near edge, 
rather prominent, 4-5 to 9 in. long, 175 to 4 in. wide; petioles 
•25 in. long, stout. Male flowers ‘4 in. across in dense 6- to 12- 
flowered terminal cymes. Bracts lanceolate keeled. Sepals 5 
orbicular, fleshy. Petals 5 sub-orbicular pink. Stamens in a 
5-lobed ring 2-celled. Pistillode globose. Fruit globose flat- 
topped fleshy yellow, 2 in. through. Stigma smooth concave, 
sessile. Seeds flat with sweet pulp. Hab. In Campongs and 
orchards. Perak, Kwala Dipang, Pahang, Temerloh and Pahang 
River. Native names: Cherapu; Chupu; Chekow; Menchepu. 
Use : Fruit eaten like mangosteens. 
Female flowers not seen. 
(36) G. pyrifera Ridl. Journ . Roy. As. Soc. S. Br. 73, p. 141. 
A tree. Branchlets yellow angled. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic, 
sub-acute shortly narrowed at the base; nerves very numerous 
horizontal, meeting in an intra-marginal nerve close to the edge, 
very fine, margin not thickened, 3-5 to 5-5 in. long, 175 to 2*25 in. 
wide; petioles very stout wrinkled '5 in. long. Male flowers 
unknown. Females solitary, axillary, from tubercles covered with 
short ovate bracts. Fruit obovoid-pear-shaped, yellow, 2*5 to 
3 in, through, on a 175-in. long peduncle. Sepals small ovate. 
Stigma small 5-lobed, lobes rounded. Seeds 2 or 3 reniform 
brown, 1 in. long, *25 in. wide. Hab. Penang, Penara Bukit 
(Curtis 3094). 
Near but distinct from G, densiflom. 
2 . OCHROCARPUS, Thouars. 
Trees with stiff coriaceous leaves. Flowers in fascicles on the 
branches. Calyx closed before flowering opening into 2 sepals. 
Petals 4 to 7. Stamens indefinite; filaments filiform. Ovary 
2-celled; ovules 2 in a cell; style short stout. Stigma 3-lobed. 
Berry 1- to 4-seeded. Seeds large. Species 4 or 5, Africa, 
Madagascar, India, Siam. 
(1) O. siamensis T. Anders. F.B.I. i. 270. 
Leaves-oblong-lanceolate shortly blunt-acuminate; main nerves 
very inconspicuous, very finely and conspicuously reticulate all 
over, 7 in. long, 2 in. wide; petioles thick yellow 75 in. long. 
Flowers 1 or 2 together *5 in. across, white fragrant. Berry fusi¬ 
form about 1 in. long narrowed to both ends with persistent cori¬ 
aceous sepals at base. Hab. Langkawi, Burau (Robinson). Distrib. 
Pegu and Siam. 
