76 XXI. GTJTTirEB^. 



Stigma on a slender style ; embryo of two fleshy, free or consoli- 

 dated cotyledons with a small radicle. 



Ovary 1-cclled, 1 -ovuled 3. Calopii yllum. 



Ovary 2-cellecl, 4-oviiled 4. Mesua. 



] . GARCINIA, Linn. 



Trees, usuall}' with yellow juice. Leaves usually coriaceous. Flowers 

 poh'gaiiious, solitary, fascicled or panicled, axillary or terminal. Sepals 

 4-5. Petals 4-5, imbricate. Male flowers : Stamens many, free or 

 united into an entire or 4-lobed mass, or tetradelphous around a rudi- 

 mentary style ; anthers sessile or on short filaments, 2-celled, dehiscing 

 by slits or pores, rarely 4-celled, or peltate and dehiscing by a circular 

 slit (circumsciss). Female or nEUMAriiRODiTE elowees : Staminodes 

 free or variously united. Ovary 2-1 2-celled ; ovule solitary, erect, or 

 laterally affixed ; stigma sessile or subsessile, broadly peltate, entire or 

 I'adiately lobed, smooth or tubercled. Berry with a coriaceous rind. 

 Seeds with a pnlpy aril ; embryo a solid homogeneous mass (tigellus) 

 without obvious cotyledons. — Distrib, Tropics of the Old World ; 

 species 50. 



Flowers tetramerous. 



Fruit exceeding 1 in. in diam. 



Fruit globose, not grooved 1. G. indica. 



Fruit ovoid, 7-8-grooved 2. G. Camhogia. 



Fruit not exceeding 1 in. in diam. 



Fruit globose, sligbtly 44obed 3. G. Morella. 



Flowers peiitamerous. 



Fruit large, yellow 4. G. Xanfhochymus. 



Fruit small, green 5. G. spicata. 



1. Garcinia indica, Choiss. in DC. Prodr. v. 1 (1824) p. 561. A 

 small tree. Leaves 2^-3^ by 1-1-^ in., red when young, oblong-lanceolate, 

 glabrous with entire, repand mai'gins ; petioles i-'^ in. long. Flowers 

 axillary or terminal, solitary or in spreading fascicles ; pedicels gradually 

 thickened upwards, ^-^ in. long or ; bracts scale-like, deciduous. Sepals 

 Y^g- in. long, decussate, thick and fleshy ; outer smaller, oblong-ovate ; 

 inner larger obovate-orbicular. Petals 4, thick, a little longer than the 

 sepals. Male flowers 3-8, in axillary and terminal fascicles, the 

 pedicels of the terminal fascicles carried on a short peduncle. Stamens 

 very numerous, on a short column ; anthers 2-celled, dehiscing longi- 

 tudinally ; filaments very short. 1<'e:male flowers sessile or very 

 sliortly pedicelled, solitary or 2-3 together, the fascicles not peduncled. 

 Stamiiiodes in 4 bundles, arranged crosswise, each bundle containing 

 2-7 staminodes in one or more rows ; filaments short, very thick. 

 Ovary 4-8-celled ; stigma sessile, with as many lobes as the cells. Fruit 

 globose, not furrowed, 1-1 } in. in diam., purple throughout. Seeds 5-8, 

 compressed, embedded in pulp. Fl. K 1. v. 1, p. 261 ; Engler, in Engl. 

 &Prantl, Pflanzenf. v. 3, part G, fig. 109, n, j ; Talb. Trees, Bomb, 

 p. 15; Woodr. in Jouru. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) p. 125; Walt, Diet. 

 Econ. Prod. v. 3, p. 466. Garcinia intqmrea, Koxb. Fl. Ind. v. 2, 

 p. 624 ; Grab. Cat. ]). 25 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 31. Brindonia indica, 

 Dupetit-Thouars, in Diet. Sc. Nat. v. 5, p. 340.— Flowers : Nov.-Feb. 

 Ver>'. Kolcmn ; lldtamha. 



The Konkans and Kanara ; cultivated in the S. Konkan and about Goa. Konkan : 

 DalscU ^- Gibson, Talbot; Boaxbaj, Graham; Mathoran, Cooled; Auibeghat, ii'awcwfc ! ; 



