Garam'a.] ■* GuttifercB. 05 



enveloped in a juicy aril, embryo a solid, homogeneous mass 

 (tigellus), without obvious cotyledons. — Sp. about 50 ; 30 in 

 Fl. B. Ind. 



I. G-. Cambog'ia; Desrouss. in Lam. Enc. iii. 701 (1789). G-oraka, 



S. ILorakkaipuli, T. Mangostana Cambogia, Gaertn. Fruct. ii. 106. 

 G. zeylanica, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 621 (?). Moon Cat. t,j. Thw. Enum. 48. 

 G. gitczsita, Pierre, Fl. For. Coch. i. 22. C. P. 1172. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 262. Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 85. Gaertn. Fruct. ii. t. loq 

 (fruit). Pierre Fl. For. Coch. i. t. 83 B. 



A moderate-sized or large tree, with a round head and 

 rather drooping branches, bark rough, dark brown, young 

 shoots quite glabrous; 1. 3^-5 in., lanceolate oblong-lanceolate 

 or oval, much tapering at base, acute or acuminate, glabrous, 

 lateral veins very oblique, petiole J-| in., stout ; male fl. : — 

 3 or 4 together in simple umbels in axils of fallen 1., ped. 

 |-i in., stout, stiff, much thickened upwards ; sep. 4, obtuse, 

 very thick ; pet. 4, more than twice as long as sep., oval- 

 oblong, obtuse, concave ; stam. monadelphous, forming a 

 central globular head ; fem. fl. : — larger than male, 1-3 from 

 axils of terminal pair of leaves ; sep. and pet. as in male ; 

 stam. 10-20, in a ring round ov., free or slightly connate at 

 base ; ov. globular, grooved ; stigma 7-12-rayed ; fr. large, 

 2J-3 in., more or less globular-depressed, variable in form, 

 with 7-13 (usually 8) very deep vertical grooves forming as 

 many blunt lobes, and a terminal prominent or depressed 

 mamilla, smooth, orange or yellow, pericarp very thick, fleshy ; 

 seeds as many as lobes, each surrounded with a copious, juicy, 

 red or white aril, | in. long, oval, compressed, testa pale brown, 

 veiny. 



Var. /?. Papilla, Wight, Ic. t. 960 and 960-2 (sp.). 



L. broadly oval, subobtuse ; fruit ovoid, with a long, 

 conical, blunt mamilla. 



Low country up to 1 500 ft., principally in the moist region ; rather 

 common. Var. /3. near Colombo (Ferguson). Fl.^Feb., March ; orange-red. 

 Also on the western side of Peninsular India. 

 Koenig's specimens under the native name are in Herb. Mus. Brit. 

 The fruit varies extremely in the number of grooves, often as many as 



