Garcinia. POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 627, 
ering time the cold season ; the fruit ripens in July. Trunk 
straight, branches numerous, erect, and ascending ; branch- 
lets cross-armed. Bark pretty smooth, of a dark-brownish 
colour. Leaves opposite, decussated; short-petioled, ob- 
long and oblong-lanceolate, entire, obtuse-pointed, or 
emarginate, smooth and shining on both sides; about. 
six inches long and from two to three broad. Male 
flowers very numerous, white, collected on large brachi- 
ate panicles, Calyx and corol as in the genus. Stamina 
numerous, on an elevated, glandular, central receptacle, 
Female flowers on a distinct tree. Spikes terminal, short, 
rigid, supporting a few, generally five or seven rigid’y 
sessile, decussate, small, pure white flowers. Calyx and 
corol as in the genus ; no nectary. Stamens, rarely the 
rudiments of. one or two may be present. Germ oyal. ~ 
Style none. Stigma large, convex, entire, dotted with 
glands. Berry round, of the size ofa large cherry, when ripe 
yellow, succulent, and containing generally four reniform 
seeds, each immersed in a pulpy aril. ‘This pulpy aril is 
palatable ; its taste more like that of the mangosteen than 
any thing else 1 can compare it to, 
9, G. pictoria, R. 
Leaves oblong, ventricose. Flowers axillary, solitary, 
sessile. _ Stigma four-lobed. Berry with as far as four 
seeds. : 
"This tree is a’native of the highest parts of. ‘Wynaad, 
where the soil is-a stiff whitish clay ; where there is con- 
stant moisture from fogs during the dry season, and abun- 
dant rains during the wet. Flowering time, on their native 
soil, February ; the frait ripens in May and June. Mr. 
Dyer, the Surgeon at Tellicherry writes me, that many 
"attempts haye been made to rear this tree on low lands, 
near the coasts, , but that they uniformly perish in a short 
time, being transported: from their native soil to their gar 
dens, The same gentleman sent exerah Sa plants & 
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