626 POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Garcinia. 
long, alternate with the leaflets of the calyx, and nearly 
of the same length. Filaments numerous, short, collected 
ona large elevated four-sided, fleshy receptacle. Anthers 
twin. Pistil no other than an abortive gland immersed 
in the fleshy receptacle of the stamens. Female calyx 
and corol as inthe male. Nectary, or abortive stamens, 
a membranous ring surrounding the base of the germ, 
which divides into twenty or thirty, compressed filaments, 
ending in enlarged, glandular heads, not unlike anthers. 
This ring is soon split into various portions by the growth 
of the germ and then appears like the phalanges of fila- 
ments in the class Polyadelphia. Germ superior, globu- 
lar. Style none. Stigma peltate, about ten-lobed. Berry 
large, two pounds weight each, round, smooth, when ripe 
of a rich yellow colour, and exceedingly acid. Seeds about 
ten, reniform, each inclosed in its own, proper, fleshy, suc- 
culent envelope, or aril, within which I always sat a 
quantity of soft yellow resin. 
The fleshy part of the fruit which covers the seeds and 
their proper juicy envelope, or aril, is in large quantity, 
of a firm texture and of a very sharp, pleasant, acid taste. 
It is used by the natives in their curries, and for acidulat- 
ing water. Ifcutinto slices, and dried, it retains its qua- 
lities for years and might be most advantageously em- 
ployed during long sea-voyages, as a succedaneum for 
lemons, or limes, to put into various messes, where ‘salt 
meat is employed, &c. 
8. G. fimiitidlatal, R. 
Dioceous. Leaves oblong. Male flowers sical Sfe- 
male spiked, and Mipndot a nectary. ‘Berry spherical, four- 
seeded. 
- This tree, found in a few gardens about Calcutta, was 
_ orginally from Silhet; where the tree is indigenous, and 
known to the natives by the name Boobee-Kowa ; about 
Calcutia, iy a lt ee a Flow- 
