634 BURMA, ITS PEOPLE AND PRODUCTIONS. 



or on a longer or shorter style. Fniit usually an indeliiscent berry, -n-itli a fleshy or 

 pulpy mesocarp. Seeds large. Albumen none. 



Trees or shrubs, often abounding in a yellow juice, with opposite, simple, often 

 coriaceous leaves. Stipules none. 



GARCIXIE.E. 

 Stigyna sessile, or on a very short and thick style, peltate or radiately hied. Seeds 

 often arillate. 



Gaecinia, Linnaus. 



Flowers dicccious or polygamous. Sepals 4, decussate or rarel)' 5-6, imbricate. 

 Petals 4-5, imbricate. Jlules : Stamens numerous, free, or united in an entire or 

 lobed fleshy mass, or 4-adelphous round a style-rudiment. Anthers 2, or rarely 

 4-celled. lemales and Hermaphrodites : Staminodes various, free or connate. Ovary 2- 

 or more celled, with a solitary ovule in each cell. Stiyma sessile, or on a short 

 stylo, entire, lobed or radiating. Fruit a 2- or several-celled berry, with a coriaceous 

 rind. Seeds imbedded in the aiillus-like pulp. 



A Flowers 4-meroiis. 

 X Anthers ohlong or ovate, opening hy longitudinal slits or jiores. 



* Stamens of male flowers in 4 liindles under the rudimentary ovary. Berries 4- to 

 lO-celled, the stigma radiating-loled, smooth or nearly so. 



* G. MANGosTANA, L. F.T. Cultivated only in Tenasserira. 



Men-gwot. The Mangosteen. 



Female flowers with staminodes round the ovary. Berries on a short peduncle. 

 Stigma radiately-lobed and adnate. 



G. coKNEA, L. F.T. Tropical forests of the Southern Pegni Range, 



and Tcnasseiim. Eamorta. Kankowry. 



Female flowers without staminodes. Berries sessile. Stigma large, peltate, 

 slightly lobed, sessile. 



G. sPEciosA, "W^all. F.T. Tropical forests of Tenasserim and the 



Andamans. Katchall. Kankowry. 



Flowers on rather long pedicels, nearly 2 inches in diameter. Stigma in male 

 flowers large, peltate, entire. 



* * Stamens in 4 polyandrous handles in a ring round the rudimentary ovary. 

 Stigma peltate, discoid, rough from icrinJdes or radiating veins. Ovary 2-celled. 



G. ANOMALA, PL and Trian. F.T. Forests of Martaban and Toung-ngoo, 



from 4000 to 6000. 



Peduncle rather long, bearing 2 or rarely 1 leafy bracts. 



G. MERGurExsis, "Wight. F.T. Tenasserim. 



Leaves long acuminate, the lateral nerves remote, and irregular. Stamina! mass 

 deeply 4-lobed. 



G. ROSTRATA, Bth. and H. f. F.T. Southern Tenasserim. 



Leaves blunt caudate, the lateral nerves crowded, very faint and regularly parallel. 

 Peduncles naked. Flowers in branchiate poor cymes or small panicles. 



X X Anthers almost sessile on a column or 4-sided fleshy mass, seldom dividing into 

 4 somewhat distinct lubes. Stamens in female flowers in a single complete or interrupted 

 ring. Stigmas tubcrcled or tubercled-wrinkled. Ovary 4-12-celled. 

 ° Stigma in fruit raised on a short thick style. 



G. cowA, Roxb. F.T. Chittagong. 



G. Roxburgliii, Wight. 

 Berry convex at top, the style not on a separate nijiple. 



