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SECTION I. GABCINIA mMZ. 



1C. 6r. stipulate*, T. And. ; Gamble 7. Vern. Sana- Sikkim and Bhutan, up 



kadan, Lepcha. to 4,000 ft-c-t. 



"Fruit yellow, sometimes eaten by Lepchas ; 

 the tree and fruit give a yellow gum, 

 but it does not seem to be used." 

 Gamble. 



17. G. merguensis, Wight ; Kurz i. 89 . . . Tenasserim. 



18. G. trttrtnirvrica, beddome t. 173 (G. sp. 2. Forests of Trava: 



Beddome xxi). Vern. Malampongu, Tin- and Timievelly. 

 nevelly. 



" Every portion of the tree yields an abundance 

 of bright yellow gamboge, not yet ex- 

 amined." Beddom e. 



19. (G. microstigma, Kurz i. 91) . . . Andamans. 



SECTION II. XANTHOCHYMUS. 



20. G. Xanthochymiis, Hook. f. ; Kurz i. 93. Xan- Eastern Himalaya. Eust- 



thochymu-s pictorius, Koxb. Fl. Ind. ii. ern Bengal, Burma, 

 633 ; 'Beddome t. 88. Vern. Tepor, Ass. ; South India. 

 MaoJda, Phekial ; Dampel, Hind. ; 

 Iwara memadi, tamalamu, chitaka- 

 mraku, Tel. ; Mataw, Burm. 

 "Yields a large quantity of indifferent 

 gamboge." Roxburgh. 



21. G. ovalifolia, Hook. f. ; X. ovalifolius, Roxb. Western Ghats. 



Fl. Ind. ii. 632; Beddome xxi. Vern. 

 Kokatie, Tarn. ; Ellagokatu, Cingh. 



22. G. dulcis, Kurz i. 92 (X. dulcis, Roxb. Fl. Andamans. 



Ind. ii. 631). 



Wood close-grained, hard. Pores small to large, subdivided. 

 Numerous concentric bands of softer texture. The structure of the wood 

 of the species of Oarcinia is not uniform. G. Cowa and G. Morella have 

 similar wood, while G. speciosa differs by having fine medullary rays and 

 G. Cambogia by the absence of distinct concentric rings. The structure 

 of the Garcinias requires further investigation. 



1. G. speciosa, Wall.; Hook. Fl. Ind. i. 260; Kurz i. 88. Vern. 

 Palaiva, Burm. 



An evergreen tree. Bark thin, greyish-black. Heartwood red, very 

 hard, cross-, and close-grained. Pores small, very numerous. Numerous 

 short, wavy, transverse bands joining the pores. Medullary rays very 

 line, uniform, equidistant, not very distinct, the distance between two 

 rays about equal to the transverse diameter of the pores. 



Tenasserim and the Andaman Islands. 



Weight, according to Major Protheroe, 721bs. ; our specimens give only 52 Ibs. and 

 Wallich (Nos. 73, 74, Garcinia sp., Pullowa) 45'5 Ibs. 



Used for house and bridge posts, and other purposes; said to be used by the 

 Andamanese to make bows. 



Ibs. 



B 504. Andaman Islands , 52 



B 2192. Do. (Home, 1874, No 18) .... 52 



Two specimens marked B 2493 Pantagah, No. 20. (51 Ibs.), and B 2,500 

 Phungnyet, No. 19 (62 Ibs.), brought by Home from the Andamans in 1874 resemble 

 G. speciosa, but the pores are in short radial lines and the medullary rays more 

 distinct. 



B 2206 (47 Ibs.), received from the Andamans in 1866 undor the name otThingan- 

 nec is similar in structure to B 2193 and 2500, but the pores are larger. 



