Garcinia.] xxni. QUTTIFER^E. (T. Anderson.) 261 



t Male flower in 3-co -fid. terminal and axillary fascicles ; fruit subglobose 

 or ovoid, tip mamillar (unknown in G. bancana). 



4. G-. indica, Chois, in DC. Prodr. i. 561 (according to Lanessan Mem. 

 Garcin. 45) ; leaves obovate- or oblong-lanceolate acute or acuminate, male 

 pedicels l-l in., fruit globose as large as an orange purple not furrowed. 

 Planch. & Trian. Mem. Guttif. 183 ; Lanessan Mem. Garcin. 45. G. pur- 

 purea, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 624 ; Graham Gat. Bomb. PL 25 ; Wight III. i. 125 ; 

 Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 31 ; Beddome Flor. Sylvat. Gen. xxi. ; Planch. & 

 Trian. Mem. Guttif. 191. G. celebica, Desrouss. in Lamk. Encycl. iii. 700; 

 and Chois. Guttif. Ind. 33 (not of Rumph.}. Brindonia indica, Dupetit-Th. 

 in Diet. Sc. Nat. v. 340. 



WESTERN PENINSULA ; Ghats of Concan and Canara. DISTRIB. Cultivated in Bom- 

 bay, Mauritius, &c. (I have seen no specimen.) 



A slender tree, with drooping branches. Leaves 24~3| in., dark-green, young red, 

 membranous, mucronate rarely obtuse. MALE fl. 4-8 in axillary and terminal fascicles ; 

 buds as large as a pea. Sepals orbicular, outer smaller. Petals rather larger. Stamens 

 numerous (12-20 Beddome), forming a short capitate column; anthers oblong, 2-celled, 

 opening longitudinally. FEM. fl. solitary, terminal, shortly and strictly peduncled. 

 Staminodes in 4 masses. Ovary 4-8-celled ; stigma of as many lobes. Fruit spherical, 

 as large as a small orange, purple throughout, not grooved. /Seeds 5-8, compressed, 

 enclosed in an acid pulp. (Characters from Roxburgh, &c.) 



I have followed Planchon and Triana and Lanessan in referring the G. purpurea 

 of Roxburgh (not of Herb. Wallich) to G. indica of Choisy, a plant known from 

 early times as the Briudon of the Portuguese, and cultivated as such in Goa and the 

 Mauritius. It was described by Garcias in 1574, by J. Bauhin in 1623, and by Ray 

 iu 1688. Roxburgh states of his G. purpurea that it was sent to him by Dr. Berry 

 from a garden, and was supposed to come from the Eastern Archipelago. Graham 

 (Cat. PI. Bombay) says that G. purpurea, Roxb., is the Brindall of the Portuguese, is 

 cultivated in the gardens of Bombay, and found wild in the ravines of Kandalla, &c. 

 The juice of the fruit is used as a mordant, and the expressed oil of the seed is the 

 Kokum oil of the natives, extensively used to adulterate Ghee. 



There are in the Hookerian Herbarium specimens from Lambert's Herbarium labelled 

 purpurea, Roxburgh, but they are imperfect ; their leaves are rather small, elliptic, 

 with very oblique somewhat distant nerves, and resemble those of G. Cambogia aud 

 G. Horella, and are perhaps referable to G. lancecefolia. /. D. H. 



5. G-. malaccense, Hook. f. ; leaves very coriaceous elliptic acuminate, 

 nerves very tine spreading close-set connected beneath by oblique nervules, 

 male fl. i in. diam. stoutly pedicelled fascicled, female 1^2 in. diarn., stamens 

 in a dense stipitate conical column. 



EASTERN PENINSULA; Malacca, Maingay. (G. cornea, Roxb., Kew distrib. 149.) 

 Branches stout, 4-angled. Leaves 5-7 by 2-2| in., abruptly acuminate, hardly 

 shining above, brown when dry ; petiole ^ in. MALE fl. on stout pedicels g-f in., in 

 terminal fascicles of 4-6. Sepals orbicular, concave. Petals twice as long, dull-red, 

 broadly ovate, shortly-clawed. Stamens very numerous, densely imbricated in a narrow 

 conical or pyramidal mass, filaments very short ; anthers adnate, ovoid, 2-celled, some 

 oblong, otuers bruader than long. Rudimentary ovary 0. FEMALE fl. solitary, ter- 

 minal, rose-coloured. Staminodts few. Ovary globose, 8-celled ; stigma sessile, very 



that plant, which again differs from G. cornea chiefly in the much larger flower. 

 Cumming's 2296 from the same locality (referred by Choisy to G. venulosa of the 

 Philippines, and by T. Anderson to G. cornea) may be this same plant. /. D. H. 



6. Cr. Cambog-ia, Desrouss. in Lamk. Encycl. iii. 701 ; leaves oblong 

 elliptic or lanceolate dark green beueata, nervea very oblique, male pedicels 



