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Garcinia.] 



Haask. to this. 



XXIII. GUTTiFER^. (T. Anderson.) 



269 



Heifer states that the stem exudes a green varnish, and Griffith de- 

 scribes the juice of the fruit as milky. 



Subgenus 



Roxb. 



^'inus, Moocb. (Gen.). Sepals and Petals 5, 

 very rarely 4. Filaments connate in 5, rarely 4 erect distant pedicelled 

 spathulate bodies, antheriferous at the top, free portions very short, in- 

 curved ; anthers small didymous. 



mus, Hook.f, 



celled. 



•• 



Jioxb. 



11. 633. 



. A. tinctorius, DG. Frodr. i. 562 ; Chois, Guttif. ...^, „- , 

 ^riau. Mem. Guttif. 149 ; W. <k A. Frodr. 102 ; Wall Gat 4837. 



East 



Bengal and the Eastern Himalaya, from Sikkim to the Khasia Mts. and 

 to Birma : Eastekn Peninsula, Penang and the Andaman Islds. ; Western Peninsula, 

 the Circars, RoxburgTi, and from the Bombay Ghats southward. 



A middling sized tree ; trunk straight ; branches drooping, angular. Leaves 9-18 by 

 2-4 in., coriaceous, shining, veins |-4 in. apart, reticulated; petiole 1 in., rugose. Male 

 tV t^^' ^^^"^'^ "^ 4-8-flowered fascicles, from the axils of fallen leaves, white; pedicels 

 loickened, l~ii in. Sepals ^ in,, orbicular, concave, fleshy, unequal. Petals k in., 

 orbicular, spreading, thin. Stamens in 5 broad bundles of 3-5, alternating with 5 fleshy 

 ^^'li V'^^'*^^^ 2-celled. Hekmaph. fl. like the male. Ovary ovoid, pointed, usually 

 ^lI ^^ stjgmatic lobes 5, oblong, spi'eading, entire. Fruit the size of an apple, sub- 

 Pobose, pointed, dark yellow. Seeds 1-4, oblong.— Yields a large quantity of indifferent 

 'gamboge (Roxburgh). The closely allied X. dulcis, Roxb., of the Indian Archipelago 

 jaa a round-tipped fruit. There are in Heifer's Tenasserim Herbariuiu imperfect spe- 



Plant much resembling this, but with pubescent branchlets. *' A very variable 

 h: 



tenacious gum of no vaXner—Thwaites. 



yields a 



29. 



/ 



I Ind. ii. 632 ; W.& A, Frodr. 

 32; Planck & T^ian. Mem. 

 3S ovalifolius, G, Bon. 



Roxburgh; Ceylon, ascending to 



ino T^ Xauthochymua ovalifolius, Foxb. 1 

 K-)^"^^^' C^^^. 4838 ; Ghois. Guttif. Ind. 

 ^m/^ 149; Thwait^s Enicm. 49. Stalagmil 



Sonn^^^i^^^^'^^^^^; '^^ foi'csts of the Circars, 

 'y^^-PiBTRiB. Java? 

 artt T . [^S-sized tree. Leaves Z\'%\ by l|-34 in., shining; nerves numerous, slender, 

 i an^ri o r°^^°^ oblique transverse nervules; petiole \-k in- Floioers \-^ in. diara., 

 ^ale f ^ niixedin one fascicle, but usually the females are fascicled and the 

 flowV Iv^ '^Piked, the spikes sometimes running out to 4 inches long, with fascicles of 

 ag ^L^ ^^roughout their len-th. Male fl. : Sepals 4, coriaceous, orbicular, half as large 

 Wirl*' "^^"^^f^^^ous orbicular concave petals. iStamem in 5 lonsr-clawed spathulate 

 the m\ ' ^^r^"^"^ ^^^ (^-1^) *li<b'n^ous. Female fl. usually on much longer pedicels than 

 " Terv ftf f ^^1^'^^^^des 5, small, with eflete anthers. Ovary globose, 3-4-celled; style 

 deen ' ®*^^"^^ 5-lobed to the middle. Ft-uit broadly oblong; size of a walnut, smooth, 



• ^ g^een, 1-3-Beedcd.— A very similar species inhabits Java, but has always acute 



Ceylon 



leaves. 



^^ ^^estern Peninsula. 



V 



AR. 2. 



^picata ; leavRs nlifnoo j" In Inno. nr ahnrt. snilcfis. flowers as in var 1. A 



Western Peninsula. 



* Vapq P'''**''«> W-dbA.Prod. 102; WaU. Cat. 346 A. . . , , 



^ntn. ?'f««<Aa; leaves obtuse, ^ flowers larpe g-l in. diam. fascicled, anthers 

 ^«stern Ghat °''^^'~'^*"^^°^'*^°^"^ o^alitblius? Beddome Fhf. Sylvat. Oen. xxi.— 



lean fw"'i"^*-^''i*""' ^^^^ps acute, flowers' as in var. 1. « ^ , /^ »• 



folia, B^ 1 r ^° further differences than the above between vars. 2, 3, and 4 O.. ovaii- 



f^auome states that var. 3 has a different habit.— /.-O- :fi- 



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