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XXIII. GUTTiFER^. (T. Aiiderson.) 



261 



t Malefiower in 3-co -fld. terminal and axillary fascicles; fruit mhglohose 

 or ovoid, tip mamillar {unknown in G. bancana). 



^1 G. Indica, C/iois. in DC. Frodr. i. 561 (according to Lanessan Mem. 



x\^l^^i 1 ' 1 . ^^^^ obovate- or oblong-lanceolate acute or acuminate, male 

 peaicels i-\^ m., fruit globose as large as an orange purple not furrowed. 

 nanch. d; 1 riati. Mem. GiMif. 183; Lanessan Mem. Garcin. 45. G. pur- 



•t\n D r T^'" "''^"- '-"^'"^y. 183; Lanessan Mem. Garcin. 45. G. ^mi.- 

 Purea /?o^6 Fl. Ind. ii. 624 ; Graham Cat. Bomb. PL 25; Wight III. i. 125 ; 

 x/afe. dcGibs.£omb. Fl. 31 ; Beddome Flor. Sylvat. Gen. xxi. ; Planch, d: 



i^fn'L-^; ^^^^f- 191. G. celebica, Desrouss. in Lamk. Encijcl. iii. 700; 

 ^^^Chms.Guitif.Indr- - - ' - ..../- . _.' 



*n Dm. Sc. Nat. v. 340. 



Brindonia indica, Dupetit-TL 



Ka7^^^-^ ^*^^^NSULA ; Ghats of Concan and Canara.— Distrib. Cultivated in Bom- 



Leaves 2 4-3 J in., dart -green, young red, 

 obtuse. Male fl. 4-8 in axillary and terminal fascicles ; 



V 7^*^fi"us, &c. (/ have seen no specimen.) 



A Slender tree, with drooping branches. Lei 



membranous, mucronate rarel ' 



t(iLs 



opening longitudinallv. 

 ^tamnodes in 4 masses. 



Fem. fl. soh'tary, terminal, shortly and strictly pedimcled. 



Ovary 4-8-celled ; stigma of as many lobes. Fruit spherical, 



<mrW''^"'' ** Bmaii orange, purple throughout, not grooved. Seeds 5-8, compressed, 



I ha 'f u" ^""l^ P"^P' {Characters from Boxhurgh, dec) 

 of Rnvl^ ^^^lowed Plauchon and Triana and Lanessan in referring the <?. purpurea 

 early tt° (not of Herb. VVallich) to O, indica of Choisy, a plant known frm 

 ManriH°^^^ ^^ Brindon of the Portuguese, and cultivated as such in Goa and the 

 ia Ifiss ^'t> 1."^*^ described by Garcias in 1574, by J. Bauhin in 1623, and by Ray 

 from a r. 1 ^^^^Sh states of his G. purpurea that it was sent to him by Dr. Berry 

 (Cat Pl^P u* *"^ ^^^ supposed to come from the Eastern Archipelago. Graham 

 calti'vai\l -"^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ ^- P^^py'rea, Roxb., is the Brindall of the Portuguese, ia 

 The loi ^f 1 gardens of Bombay, and found wild in the ravines of Kandaila, &c. 

 Kokum^V f u ^^"^*^ ^^ "®^^ ^^ ^ mordant, and the expressed oil of the seed is the 



There • t ^^^^^^^' extensively used to adulterate Ghee. 

 P^rmire^^ ^n the Hookerian Herbarium specimens from Lambert's Herbarium labelled 

 ^th ve^' Yr^t>urgh, but they are imperfect ; their leaves are rather small, elliptic, 

 G Mollli^^^ somewhat distant nerves, and resemble those of O, Cambogij and 

 /ewa, and are perhaps referable to O. lancemfolia.—J. D. H. 



nerves 



malacoense, Hook / 



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maK ^^^-^^ J?® spreading close-Vet connected beneath by oblique nervules, 

 in a dinV"' *— "^" ^'^^^tjy pedicelled fascicled, female 1^2 in, diam., stamens 



East 



i\t.r^^ r..^' ^^^uuy peaiceiiec 

 aense stipitate conical column. 



shioi 

 Wtu 



^ra^h ^^"^^^su^a; Malacca, Maingay, {O. cornea, Roxb., Kew distrib. 149.) 

 iuin^ ok! ."^' ^-angled. Leaves 5-7 by 2-2^ in., abruptly acuminate, hardly 



1. Male fl. on stout pedicels J-J m., m 



Petals twice as long, dull-red, 



ng ab 



concave. 



conical or n ®'^?!;"^<^lawed. Stamem very numerous, densely imbricated in a narrow 

 *W otur*"/ ^^^^' filaments very short ; anthers adnate, ovoid, 2.celled, some 



""*^iiK ottp -"^"'' *uaos, uiamei . ._ , 



?^inal7ro8e^^^^^''^^^®''^than long. Budimentary ovary 0. Fkmale fl. solitary, ter- 



=*>^vex, envelc 



confirmed Im m • ^- "i'ec'a^'^w that but for the structure of the androeciuni Cwhich is 

 *•»« Plant ^.'''"gay's carelul analvsis), I should have hesitated in separating it from 

 Cnmmir„r»L o^Jfi^ ,.^2'*'" differs Irom G. cornea chiefly in the much larger flower. 



^(•ge conve ^"'^>' ^^^'^^i'^odts few. Owry globose, S-celled ; stigma sessile, very 

 ^knLwn J^ ^i°7®*^P"*g half the ovary, 8-clett almost to the ci-ncave c«utre. Fruit 



• i^o like 6/. spectabilis that but for the structure of the andrcecium (which is 



venidosa 



<^^ipticor?*^°**®^**» ^esrouss. in Lamk Enajcl iii. 701 ; leaves oblong 



> "^Aanceolatfi Hart r>^^^« i *.>. «^«-*.^. t^^tr/^KHnnP malft nedicels 



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