Order 1 8. Guttifera. 25 



1. GARCINIA. 



G. Indica. A very pretty tree with drooping branches and 

 thick dark green foliage, the trunk black and grooved, leaves 

 oval pointed entire, almost veinless, flowers fleshy, sepals in 2 

 unequal pairs, petals 4, mouth of corolla entirely filled with 

 stamens, fruit size and colour of a plum. Kofasmbij ratambi. 



This has much of the general appearance of the Evergreen oak 

 (Quercus Ilex}. It is tolerably common in the Konkan, and often 

 cultivated. The leaves when young are of a beautiful red. From 

 the oil of the seeds is made the well-known salve Kokam. The fruit 

 is good when cooked, though exceedingly acid. 



* 0. Xanthochymus (X. pictorius, D.). Leaves oblong or lanceolate, 

 a foot long, flowers white, sepals and petals 5, roundish, stamens in 

 bundles divided by fleshy glands, fruit size of an apple, pointed, 

 bright, yellow. Aont. S. Ghauts (D.). Widely distributed (H.). 0. 

 ovalifolius (Xanthochymus o. D.), leaves oval, flowers greenish 

 white, fascicled on the branches, sepals, petals and stamens as in the 

 last : fruit oblong, smooth, green, the size of a walnut. The Ghauts : 

 pretty common, D. & G. Tavir, haldi, jaugali rdmphal. 



G. mangostana is the mangosteen tree, native and cultivated in the 

 Malay Peninsula and S. Tenasserim. 



Gamboge comes from one of this genus, and most of the individuals 

 of the order yield an inferior sort of gamboge (B.). 



2. OCHROCARPUS. 



0. longifolus (Calysaccion, I. D.). A handsome tree with 

 small strong-smelling flowers clustered on the branches ; 

 leaves large, oblong, dark green, sepals and pedicels red, petals 

 white, anthers yellow, stigma large, flat, white ; fruit small, 

 oval, reddish, one-seeded. Suringi undi, god-undi, pundg, 

 harkin. 



Ghauts and Konkans. The flower buds are exported for use in 

 silk dyeing. They are round and red, and are called tdmbadi ndj- 

 kesar. 



3. CALOPHYLLUM. 



C. inophyllum. Trunk black and crooked, leaves large 

 oval rounded entire ; flowers in racemes small but beautiful, 

 very fragrant ; sepals and petals 4 each, roundish pure white ; 

 stamens in 4 bundles, anthers yellow, ovary large round red, 

 fruit round green, size of a walnut. Undi. 



Very common in the S. Konkan, often growing to a large size close 

 to high- water mark. H. says it is cultivated throughout India, but 

 I believe it never grows well away from the sea. G-. calls it the 

 " Alexandrian laurel." Oil is obtained from the fruit and commonly 

 burnt in the S. Konkan, and the wood is valuable. In Java, as with 



