96 NEILGHERRY PLANTS. 
should suppose Clusteae might, without much violence to affinities, be transferred as a sub- 
order to Hypericineae, and Monorobeae be associated with Xanthochymus and Pentadesma 
and perhaps, Platonia, to form a new order. 
: But leaving these discussions which are scarcely relevant to this work, I may pro- 
ceed to observe that the genus Garcinea for the most part consists of trees, or large shrubs, 
with opposite glabrous highly polished leaves, with few, usuall y nearly sessile, yellow flowers 
in their axils, inhabiting forests, in tracts of country enjoying a warm humid climate. 
Hence they naturally abound in Malabar, Ceylon, Tenasserim, the Eastern Islands &c., but 
are almost unknown in the Carnatic, except where, under local circumstances, the above pecu- 
liarties of climate are met with—about Courtallum, for example, species of Garcinea, Mesua, 
and Callophyllum are not unfrequent, and there the Garcinea Mangostana or true Mangos- 
teen has been successfully introduced. Two species of the genus Garcinea are known to pro- 
duce Gamboge ; most of the others yield a yellow juice, but not gamboge as it will not mix with 
water. The Mesuae yield very hard wood, hence the Java species has received the name of 
M. ferrea or Iron wood tree, and the beautiful flowered Callophyllum Inophyllum also yields a 
very strong timber, adapted for ship building. There may be other species turned to useful 
purposes, but these are the principal. 
GARCINIA.—Mangosteen Tribe. 
Petals 4, deciduous. 
inserted on a large fleshy 4-angled or 4‘lobed receptacle with or without 
an imperfect pistillum : anthers 2-celled, bursting longitudinally. Fem.—Stamens 8-30, (always ?) imper- 
fect : filaments distinct, or monadelphous, or 4-adelphous; the fascicles alternate with the petals, 
intermediate fleshy glands : anthers destitute of pollen, and usually glandular. Ovary 4-10-celled : ovules 
solitary ineach cell. Style very short, crowned with a large lobed peltate stigma. Fruit fleshy and juicy, 
indehiscent-4-10-celled, crowned with the permanent style. Seeds solitary in each cell.—Trees.—W. and 
A. Prod. p. 100. 
Flowers moneecious or dicecious. Sepals 4, persistent, without bracteoles. 
Mate.—Stamens numerous, short, 
without 
The species of this genus found in the Peninsula are nearly all, except the one here figured and 
G. conicarpa, found ou the sea coast, or but little elevated above that level. The subject of this notice 1 
first found on Mr. Lascelles’ estate at Hulicul, and since then, on the banks of the river at Coonoor; in both 
places growing in thick jungles close by the stream, some of its roots in the water—since then I have also 
found it on the Malabar slopes, but at a somewhat lower elevation. 
Garcinia rapitta (R. W.) dicecious leaves short what triangular, covered with a thin coloured mem- 
etioled, obovate, obtuse: flowers axillary, nearly branous testa. 
sessile, aggregated in the stameniferous, solitary or A diffuse tree growing on banks of streams near Coo- 
three together in the fructiferous plant: stamens nu- nooralso in similar situations at Sis ah. Flowering 
merous, filaments united, forming a thick short andro- during the rainy months. 
phore without a sterile style : anthers 2-celled dehi ing appearance is allied to both G. Roxburghii and G. 
longitudinally : ovaryglobose 8-celled: style a thick Cambogia (the G.Kydia W. and A. Prod. not Roxb.) 
short fleshy body, crowned with 8 spreading star- but differs from both inthe st Je, the form, and the 
like persistent stigmas, enlarging with the fruit : fruit peculiar nipple-like prolongation of the fruit, whence 
ovate, oblong, furrowed, 8 or, by abortion 4 or 6 celled, le name. This last structure seems confined to 
crowned with the greatly enlarged style: seed some- this plant and to Roxburgh’s G. Ky jana, avery dis- 
tinct species, where it exists in a legs degree. 
MESUA.—ZTron-wood tree. 
Sepals 4, persistent, without bracteoles. Petals 4, alternate with the sepals. Stamens very nu- 
merous, slightly connected at the base into a fleshy ring: filaments filiform: anthers erect, 2-celled, 
bursting longitudinally. Ovary ovate, 2 celled: ovules 2 in each cell. Style longish: stigma peltate, 
