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 smootli, ot" a durk-brounish 

 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 rigidly 

 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 oval. 

 Style none. Stigma large, convex, entire, dotted with 

 glands. Berry round, of the size of a large cherry, when ri'pe 

 yellow, succulent, and containing generally four reniforin 

 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. picforia, R. 



Leaves oblong, ventricose. Floivers 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 fruit ripens in May and June. Mr. 

 Dyer, the Surgeon at Tellicherry writes me, that many 

 attempts have 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 several small plants to 



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