Garcinia. polyandria monogynia. 623 



the most palatable. It is a native of Chittagong, and flow- 

 ers in February ; the fruit ripens in June. 



4. G. lanceofwiia. R. 



Leaves narrow, lanceolar, acute. Flowers terminal, 

 solitary, ^^ii/ma, from six to eight-lobed. J?errj/ turbi- 

 nate, with as far as eight seeds. 



A small tree, a native of Silhet, where it is known to 

 the natives by the name Kirindur, and by them cultivat- 

 ed for the fruit, which they are fond of. Flowering time 

 in February ; its fruit ripens in July. 



5. G. Kyd'ia. R. 



Dioecous. Leaves broad-lanceolar. 



Male flowers in terminal and lateral umbellets ; female 

 also terminal and lateral, but solitary, and sessile, with 

 four sets of unequal, abortive stamina, alternate with the 

 petals. Berry from four to eight-seeded, apex depressed 

 with an elevated nipple-like centre, crowned with the 

 stigma. 



A native of the Andaman Islands, where it was disco- 

 vered by Col. Alexander Kyd, and by him introduced into 

 the Botanic garden at Calcutta in 1794, where, when 

 about ten years old, it began to blossom in February, and 

 the fruit to ripen in July. Trunk straight, to the top of 

 the tree, as in the common fir, &c. and in trees sixteen 

 years old twenty-seven inches in circumference at four 

 feet from the ground. Branches numerous, spreading far 

 and regularly. Bark pretty smooth, of greyish brown ; if 

 it be wounded, a yellow exudation frequently takes place, 

 which hardens into an inferior kind of gamboge ; the ex- 

 treme height of young trees about thirty feet. Leaves op- 

 posite, short-petioled, broad-lanceolar, acute, entire, firm 

 and polished, from four to six inches long, and from one 

 to one and a half broad. Stipules no other than a little 

 black or brown gland on each side of the petioles. 



