96 G2lttiferCB. [Gardnia. 



12 or 13, and in the shape and depth of the lobes and their colour; one 

 red variety is very like a large tomato. It is ripe in July, and is acid but 

 pleasant ; the rind cut into pieces and dried in the sun is much eaten by 

 the natives, and is very palatable. 



Wood hard, fine-grained, greyish. The bark affords a transparent 

 gum-resin. 



G. seylamca, Roxb., is referred to this species by Anderson (Fl. B. 

 Ind. 1. c), but Roxburgh's drawing in Herb. Calcutta labelled first ' G. 

 Gutta,' and altered to ' G. zeylanica^ appears to be G. Morella. 



2. G. nXorella, Besroiiss. m Lam. Enc. iii. 701 (1789). ILana- 

 g'oraka, Gokatu, Kokatiya. 



Herm. Mus. 26. Burm. Thes. 27. Fl. Zeyl. n. 195. CambogiaGiitta, 

 L. Sp. PI. ed. 2, 728. Mani^ostana MorcUa, Gaertn. 1. c. Stalagniitis 

 cambogioides, Murr., Moon Cat. 73. Hebradcjidroii canibogioides, Graham 

 in Hk. Comp. Bot. Mag. ii. 199. Thw. Enum. 49. C. P. 322. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 264. Bedd. Fl. .Sylv. t. 86. Gaertn. Fruct. ii. t. 105 

 (fruit). 



A small pyramidal tree, with spreading branches, bark 

 smooth, brown, young twigs quadrangular ; 1. 3-4^ in., broadly 

 lanceolate or oval, acute at base, subacute, shining, paler 

 beneath, lateral veins very oblique, inconspicuous, petioles 

 \ in. ; fl. sessile, in axils of fallen 1., male 2 or 3 together, 

 female solitary ; sep. and pet. each 4, the latter longer ; male 

 fl. : — stam. monadelphous, the fil. combined into a subquadr- 

 angular central column but free at their summits, anth. dehis- 

 cing transversely; fem. fl.: — stam. about 12 in a ring round ov., 

 connate at base, ov. globular, smooth, 4-celled, stigma peltate, 

 irregularly lobed and tubercled ; fr. small, | in., globose, 

 surrounded at base by persistent sep., glabrous ; seeds 4, 

 ovoid, kidney-shaped, slightly compressed, testa finely muricu- 

 late, blackish-brown. 



Moist low country, ascending to about 2000 ft.; common. Kalutara 

 (Moon) ; Hewesse ; Deltota ; Balangoda ; Hantane ; Uva, abundant. 

 Fl. May ; greenish-white. 



Also on western side of Peninsular India and in East Bengal and the 

 Malay Peninsula. 



Wood hard, yellowish-brown. This is the gamboge tree, and yields 

 abundance of that pigment, which is, however, but little collected here. 

 The gamboge of commerce is obtained from Siam, and is the produce of 

 a variety (van pcdiccl/ata, Hanb.) of this species, recently raised to 

 specific rank as G. Hanburii, Hk. f. It is fully described and figured in 

 ' Medicinal Plants,' t. 2>l. 



3. G-. echinocarpa, Thw. in Kcw Jotirn. Bot. vi. 71 (1854). 

 Madol, .5*. 



Thw. Enum. 49. C. P. 335, 2445. 

 Fl. B. Ind. i. 264. 



A moderate or large tree, with a thick trunk throwing 

 down many long aerial roots near the ground, bark rather 



