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262 XXIII. GUTTiFEB^. (T. AndersoD.) [Garcinia,^ 



nek <£ Tria7i. Mem, Gvitif. Ill ; Thwaites Enum. 48 ; [LanessanMm. 

 xin. 362 ; Beddome Flor. jSylvat.t.Sd]. G. zeylanica, Boxb. FL Ind. ii. 621 ; 



Flanch, 



Wail. Cat imi', [LanessajiMem. Garcm. 408 J. G. affinis, W. & A. Frpdr. 

 101 (not of Wall. Cat. 4854). G. elliptica, Wall. Cat 4b69. 



Mountains of the Western Peninsula, from Concan to Travancor ; Ceylon, ^ 



A small erect tree ; branches drooping. Leaven 2-5 bj ^-1 J in., dark green, gnming, 

 hnrdly coriaceous, shortly acuminate, base acute rarely obtuse ; midrib prominent to the 

 middle; veins thick, usually v^ry oblique, |- in. apart, reticulate; petiole \-i in. 

 Male fl. in short axillary fascicles ; pedicels thickened towards the tip, often refiexed. 

 Sepals with narrow membranous margins, outer ^-J in. long, inner larger. I^tats 

 twice as long as the sepals, thinner, oblong, concave. Stamens 12-20 or more,^ aunate 

 to the receptacle into a mass with a prominent centre ; free part of filaments ^V ii^* *|*^'^" 

 Budimentary stigmas 3^, very short or 0. Hermaph. fl. 1-3, terminal and axillary, 

 rather larger than the male ; pedicels ^-| in. Stamens 10-20, filaments unequal, aU 

 connate at the base or in unequal bundles. Stigmatic rays 8-10-tubercled, free ^^^^^ 

 to the base, spreading. Fruit the size of a fcmall apple, yellow or red, grooves 6-o, 

 ending about the middle; top flat, depressed, mamilla thick. Seeds 6-8; anl succu- 

 lent.— Roxburgh's unpublished drawing (Herb. Calcutta and Kew) differs from that m 

 the Coromandel plants in the usually axillary female flowers, with few tenninal ones, 

 and in the papillose scarcely divided stigma; differences of no specific vah:e. Ih^'ai e 

 (Enuni.) stales that this yields a yellow insoluble gum, hence valueless as a pig™^"^ 

 but that the acid juice of the ripe fruit is used as a condiment.— [G. indica, Choi8_ (-^W 

 Prodr. i. 561), founded on Thomas's Brindonia indka (Diet. Sc. Nat. v. 340), is pro- 

 bably this species, but having seen no specimens I do not quote it. See No. 4.] 



[The following varieties or species are referred to G. Cambogia by Beddome (rl. ©y v. 

 Gen. xxi.). 



Var. 1. conicarpa, Wight Tc. 121 (excl. <J), 111. i. 126 (sp.) ; Blanch, & Trian.Mem., 

 Guttif. 192; Laiiessan Mem. Garcin. 53 ; leaves broader beyond the middle or "^t^'^ 

 rblong, fruit ovoid-conical 4-grooved to the top, furrows angular. — Shevagerry m h 

 Wight. Q 



V AR. 2, T^apilla, Wight Tc. t. 960, 961 fsp.) ; Planch. S Trian, Guttlf, Jnd. 1^1 » 

 Lanessan Mem. Garcin. 50 ; leaves large elhptic, fruit ovoid 4-8-grooved to tne top 

 with a terminal mamilla — Conoor and Sisparah jungles, Wight,^ 



1. G. Cowa, Roxl. Fl. Ind. ii. 622 • leaves broad-lanceolate acute at both 

 ends dark green beneath, male pedicels \-\ in., rudimentary stigma Oj^*^" . 

 grooved to the tip. DC. Prodr. i. 561 ; W.dcA. Prodr. I 101 ; Choi^. Gutty. 

 Ind. 34 ; Planch, dc Trian. Mem. Guttif. 1 86 ; Wall Cat 4863 ; [LanessanMem. 

 Garcin. 54.] G. Kydia, Roxh, I.e. 623 ; Wight Ic. t. 113 ; [G. Kydiana, Lanemn 

 Mem. Garcin. 69.1 G. Roxburghii, Wight III. 125 {exd. syn. Cambogia .^^r 

 lanicae afl5nis),/c. t.l04. G. umbelliferk, 7?o^6., Watt. Cat.ASU. G.WaUicDU, 

 Clhois. I.e. 37. G. lobulosa, Wall. Cat 4868 A ; Chois Lc. 36. Oxycarpus 

 gangetica, Ham, in Mem. Wem. Soc, v. 344. 



Eastern Bengal; hills near Monghir; Assam; Eastern Peninsula; Andam 



Islands, Kurz, , * - 



An erect tree, 60 ft. ; trunk straight, simple ; branches many, slender, lower i*®p^°' * 

 the ground; bark dark-grey. Leaves 3-5 by 1-2 in.; veins tVJ ^"- *P**^*' xlllary, 

 regular, inarching with an intra-marginal one. Male fl. in 3-8-flowered, rarely a ^.^j^? 

 umbels ; pedicels ^-^ in. Sepals ^ in. long, broad-ovate, thick, fleshy, J®^^^ ^: 

 pink on both surfaces. Petals twice as long, oblong. Stamens many ; anthe ^^y 

 sessile, 4-celled. Hermaph. fl. solitary, rarely 2-3, axillary, sessile. Ovary ^"^^ ^al 

 stigmatic rays spreading, papillose. Stamens (sferile) in 4 clusters of ^ i? j ^e- 

 filaments. Fruit the size of a small orange, dark-yellow, 4-8-gi'OOVed and ceUe , ,^^ 



pressed above, tip mamillary. — Wallich's Sincapore specimens 4868 B aire ve / 



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