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androphore, carrying 8-10 anthers near the top, the free portion of the 

 filament below the anther very short ; anthers didymous. Temale 

 FLOWERS usually fascicled. Staminodes in 5 trifid bundles ; anthers 

 sterile. Ovary ovoid, 3-celled ; stigma thick, fleshy, 3-lobed. Fruit 

 green, 1-1 1 in. long, ovoid or subglobose, 1-3-seedecl. Trim. Fl. Ceyl. 

 v. 1, p. 98. Garcinia ovalifolius, var. ovalifolia, Hook. f. in Fl. B. I. 

 v. 1, p. 269 (not of Oliver); Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 1.5. XantlweJiymus 

 ovalifolius, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. v. 2, p. 632.— Flowers : Mar.-May. 

 Evergreen forests of N. Kanara and Konkan Ghats, Talhot. 



Vae. macmntlia . Leaves larger, 3|-7 by lg-3| in., elliptic-oblong, 

 obtuse or retuse. Male flowers much larger, reaching g in. in diam., 

 fascicled (rarely spiciform). Garcinia ovalifolius, var. macrantha, Fl. B. 

 I. v. 1, p. 269 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 15. Xantliochymus ovalfolins, 

 Grah. Cat. p. 26 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 31 ; Woodr. in Joiirn. Bomb! Nat. 

 V. 11 (1897) p. 125. — Flowers: Dec-Jan. Veen. Ilaldi; Ont. 



This variety is much tbe more common form in the Eombay Presidency. It 

 flowers in the cold, while the former flowers in the hot season. It is confined to the 

 Ghats of the Konkan and Kanara. 



KoNKA>f : the Ghats, Balzcll ! ; S. of Baitsi (S. Konkan), liitchie, 1G48 ! ; Matheran, 

 CooKx !, WoodrouK Deccan : ravines at Khandala, Graham ; Phunda Ghat, liitchie ! ; 

 Parghat, Graham, Kanaka : Gairsoppa Ghat, common, Talhot. 



2. OCHROCARPOS, Thouars. 

 Trees. Leaves coriaceous, opposite, or ternately whorled. Flowers 

 in short cymes or lateral or axillary fascicles, polygamous. Calyx closed 

 before flowering, at length opening valvately into 2 sepals. Petals 4 

 or more. Stamens indefinite ; filaments filiform, free or shortly con- 

 nate below ; anthers erect, oblong, 2-celled, dehiscing longitudinally. 

 Ovary 2-celled ; ovules 2 in each cell ; style short, stout or : stigma 

 3-lobed. Berry 1-4-fceeded. Seeds large, enclosed in pulp ; embryo of 

 a large fleshy tigellus with the cotyledons reduced to a small mammilla 

 or 0. — DiSTKiB. Madagascar, West Africa ; species 6. 



1. Ochrocarpos longifolius, Benth. S,- IJool-. f. ex T. Anders, in 

 Fl. B. I. V. 1 (1874) p. 270 {Ochrocarpus). A large tree ; young shoots 

 terete or slightly 4-gouous. Leaves thickly coriaceous, 6-8 by 2-2^ in., 

 oblong, obtuse or shortly and bluntly pointed, quite glabrous, with 

 slightly _ repand margins and prominent midrib, base rounded, veins 

 inconspicuous in fresh, but beautifully reticulate \n dried specimens ; 

 petioles I in. long, stout. Flowers numerous, in short fascicles on 

 tubercles from the axils of fallen leaves ; buds globose, apiculate, orange- 

 red ; pedicels |-| in. long, thickened upwards ; bracts numerous, sub- 

 ulate. Calyx bursting into 2 valves, reflexed during flouering. Petals 

 4, ovate-oblong, acute, thin, deciduous, white streaked with red. Stamens 

 many, sterile in the female flowers. Style short, stout ; stigma broad, 

 peltate. Fruit 1 in. long, obliquely ovoid, tipped by the hard, pointed 

 style, 1-seeded. Bedd. Flor. Sylvat. t. 89 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 15 ; 

 Woodr, in Jouru. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) p. 125; A\^att, Diet. Econ. 

 Prod. v. 5, p. 439. Calysaccion longifolium, Wight, 111. v. 1, p. 130; 

 Grah. Cat, p. 27 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 32. — Flowers : Feb. -Mar. Verx! 

 Surangi ; Pundga. 



