Garcinia.'] GutHferCB. g'T 



smooth, dark brown ; 1. 3-5 in., broadly oval or somewhat 

 obovate, acute or tapering at base, obtuse, rarely acuminate, 

 with numerous prominent, parallel, lateral veins, petiole ^ in., 

 very stout, usually purple ; fl, sessile, terminal, the male in 

 clusters, the fern, solitary ; male fl, : — sep. and pet. 4, obtuse, 

 thick, concave, the pet. rather the longer ; stam. about 20, 

 monadelphous, the fil. connate to form a 4-sided central 

 column ; fem. fl. : — sep. and pet. as in male ; stam. about 15, 

 in a ring round ov., connate at base ; ov. covered with 

 numerous, imbricated, fleshy scales, 4-celled, sticrma peltate, 

 with irregular tuberculated lobes ; fr. i-i^ in. l>>ng, ovoid, 

 very bluntly beaked, covered with large sharp tubercles ; 

 seeds 1-3, i in., subglobular or ovoid, testa thick, reddish- 

 brown. 



Moist region, in forests from 1000 up to 6000 ft.; common in the 

 lower montane zone. Adam's Peak ; Deltota ; Singhe Raja Forest, abun- 

 dant ; especially abundant in the N.E. mountain group, e.g:, Hunasgiriya, 

 Madulkelle, Rangala, where it is a principal tree of the hill-forest. Fl. 

 April ; greenish. 



Endemic. 



Easily recognised by its numerous aerial roots, which are copiously 

 produced from the lower part of the stem, as in the Mangroves. In the 

 low country the leaves are larger and longer and more acute, and the 

 flowers smaller. An oil is obtained from the seeds. Wood light and 

 rather soft ; much used. 



4. G-. terpnophylla, T/itv. Enum. PL Zeyl. 406 (1864). Koka- 

 tiya, S. 



Terpnophyllu7n zeylanicum, Thw. in Kew Journ. Bot. vi. "jo ; Enum. 

 49. Discostigma zeylanicum, Planch, and Tri., Gutt. 209. C. P. 2695. 

 Fl. B. Ind. i. 268. Kew Journ. Bot. vi. t. 2 C. 



A rather small, pyramidal tree, with slender, pendulous 

 branches, bark very smooth, greyish -brown ; 1. variable, 

 3-8 in., from broadly oval to lanceolate-oblong, abruptly or 

 gradually acuminate or attenuate, acute or tapering at base. 

 stiff, paler beneath, lateral veins conspicuous, parallel, in- 

 arching with an intramarginal one near the edge, bright lake- 

 pink when young, petiole \-^ in., thick ; fl. small, in stalked 

 axillary clusters, ped. | in., smooth ; male fl. : — sep. 4, rounded, 

 obtuse ; pet. 4, twice as long as sep., oblong, obtuse ; stam. 

 connate in 2 or 4 spreading, scale-like bundles, opp. the pet. 

 and adnate to their bases, anth. very small, cells distant ; 

 ov. (rudimentary) a short capitate papilla ; fem. fl. : — rather 

 larger, sep. and pet. as in male ; stam. (rudimentary) about 

 18 triangular scales surrounding ov. ; ov. globular, 2-celled, 

 stigma peltate, irregularly lobed ; fr. f-i in., ovoid, bluntly 

 pointed, smooth, i -seeded ; seed with a membranous testa. 



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