262 xxui. QUTTIFER^:. (T. Anderson.) [Gardnia. 



?-f in., rudimentary stigma 3-4-lobed or 0, fmit not grooved to the tip. 

 Moxb. Corom. PL iii. t. 298, Fl. Ind. ii. 621 ; DC. Prodr. i. 561 ; Walt. Cat. 

 4865, 4866, 4861 C, 4863 B ; W. & A. Prodr. i. 561 ; Ckois. Guttif. I ml. 35 ; 

 Planch. & Trian. Mem. Guttif. 177; Thwaites Eniim. 48; [La/n-wi/i .!////. 

 Garcin. 362 ; Beddome Flor. tiylvat.t.85]. G.zeylanica, Roaob. Fl. Ind. ii. 621 ; 

 Wall. Cat. 4867; [Lanessan Mem. Garcin. 408 J. G. affinis, W. tfr A. Prodr. 

 101 (not of Watt. Cat. 4854). G. elliptica, Wall. Cat. 4b69. 



Mountains of the WESTERN ]'i M.V-I LA, from Concan toTravancor; CEYLON. 



A small erect tree ; branches drooping. Leave* 2-5 by ^~H i n -> dark green, shining, 

 hardly coriaceous, shortly acuminate, base acute rarely obtuse ; midrib prominent to the 

 middle; veins thick, usually very oblique, in. apart, reticulate; petiole \-^ in. 

 MALK fl. in short axillary fascicles; pedicels thickened towards the tip, often n. Hexed. 

 Sepals with narrow membranous margins, outer &- in. long, inner larger. 7' t<il.<s 

 twice as long as the sepals, thinner, oblong, concave. Stamens 12-20 or more, admit e. 

 to the receptacle into a mass with a prominent centre ; free part of filaments Ay in. long. 

 Rudimentary stigmas 3-4, very short or 0. HI:I:M AIMI. tl. 1 :i, terminal and axillary, 

 rather larger than the male ; pedicels &-\ in. /Stamens 10-20, filaments unequal, all 

 ((innate at the base or in unequal bundles. Stigmatic rays 8-10-tubercled, free nearly 

 to the base, spreading. Fruit the size of a small apple, yellow or red, grooves 6-8, 

 ending about the middle ; top flat, depressed, mamiila thick. Seeds 6-8 ; aril BUOCQ* 

 lent. Roxburgh's unpublished drawing (Herb. Calcutta and Kew) difl'ers from that in 

 the Coromandel plants in the usually axillary female 11.. \vers, with few terminal ones, 

 and in the papillose scarcely divided stigma; differences of no specific valr.e. Thwaites 

 (Enum.) states that this yields a yellow insoluble gum, hence valueless as a pigment, 

 but that the acid juice of the rip.- fruit is u-ed as a condiment. | G. iinlicd. ( 'hoi- I " . 

 Prodr. i. 561), founded on Thomas's JBrindonia indica (Diet. Sc. Nat. v. 340), is pro- 

 bably this species, but having seen no specimens 1 do not quote it. See No. 4.] 



[The following varieties or species are referred to G. Cambogia by Beddome (Fl. Sylv. 

 Gen. xxi.). 



VAR. 1. conicarpo, Wight Tc. 121 (excl. J), 111. i. 120 (sp.); Planch. & 7V/V/,/. .!/</. 

 Gut I if. 192; Lanexsan Mini. f,</n-in. :,:', ; leavefl l>i<>a<i. r !>ey.>nd the' middle or linear- 

 rblong, fruit ovoid-conical 4-grooved to the top, furrows angular. Shevagerry hills, 



Wight. 



VAK. 2. papilla, Wight Tc. t. 960, 961 (sp.); Planch. & Trian. Guttif. Ind. 191 ; 

 Lanessan Mem. Garcin. 50 ; leaves large elliptic, fruit ovoid 4-8-grooved to the top 

 with a terminal mamiila Conoor and Sisparah jungles, ]Vight.~\ 



7. G. Cowa, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 622 : leaves broad-lanceolate acute at both 



lanch. <k Trian. M> m. (inttif. 1 M; ; Wall. Cat. 4863 ; [Lanessan Mem. 

 .] G. Kydia, Roxb. I.e. ;^3; Wight, Ic. t. 113; [G. Kydiana, Lanestan 



gangetica, Ham. in Mem. Wern. Soc. v. 344. 



EASTERN BENGAL; hills near Monghir ; ASSAM; EASTERN PENINSULA; ANDAMAN 

 Islands, Kurz. 



An erect tree, 60 ft. ; trunk straight, simple ; branches many, slender, lower reaching 

 the ground ; bark dark-grey. Leaves 3-5 by 1-2 in. ; veins T V- i m - apart, slender, 

 regular, inarching wilh an intra-marginal one. MALE fl. in 3-8-flowered, rarely axillary 

 umbels ; pedicels - in. Sepals in. long, broad-ovate, thick, fleshy, yellow, with 

 pink on both surfaces. Petals twice as long, oblong. Stamens many ; anthers sub- 

 sessile, 4-celled. HERMAPH. fl. solitary, rarely 2-3, axillary, sessile. Ovary subglobose; 

 pti^niutic rays spreading, papillose. Stamens (sterile) in 4 clusters of 3-8 unequal 

 filaments. Fruit the size of a small orange, dark-yellow, 4-8-grooved and celled, de- 

 pressed above, tip mamillary. Wallich's Sincapore specimens 486$ B are very im- 



