266 xxui. GUTTIFEJL&. (T. Anderson.) \Gar< 



Series B. Stigma entire. 



* Stamens of the male flowers in a globose central mass'; anthers 2-4-celled, 

 dehiscing vertically (unknown in 19. atro-viridis). Stigma convex. 



18. Cr. paniculata, Rpxh. Ft. I ml. ii. 626 ; leaves thin oblong-lanceolate 

 or obovate, male fl. in twice or thrice branched panicles, female in short 

 terminal spikes. Wight 111. li.% Ic. t. 112; 1 1'///. Cat. 4^7 ; Ghois. < 



Ind. 35; Planch. & Trian. Mem. Guttif. 194 [Lauessan Mem. (/'<//<///. tit)]. 

 G. Bhumicowa, Roxb. ; Wall. Cat. 4858. 



EASTERN BENGAL ; Khasia Mts., ascending to 3000 ft. ; EASTERN HIMALAYA. Bhotan, 

 Booth. 



A tree, about 40 feet; branches many, ascending. Leaves 6-9 by 2-4 in., shining, 

 acuminate,, rarely obtuse, base tapering; veins in. apart, curved ; petiole | in. M \I.K 

 fl. 'many, pure white. ' -mall, thick, inner / in. lime.s longer, 



ovate, very concave. &tanh-nx many. Mil^cssilc, imbricate in a large sub^lohos. 

 anthers obovate, 2-4-celled. FKMALK II. few, like the males. Staminode* 0, or 1-2 Hla- 

 meiit<. Ovary subgloho>e ; stigma convex, entire, tubercled. Fruit the size of a large 

 cherry, yellow, succulent. Seed* 4, reniforui, aril pulpy. 



19. G. atro-viridis, Griff, mss. ; leaves coriaceous oblong-lanceolate, 

 female fl. solitary terminal. 



I'ITKK ASSAM, at Tahmig, (,'n'jnt/i. (Herb. Kew Distrib. 862). MALACCA, M 

 Ynimg branches stout, terete , bark black when dry. Leaves 6-9 by 2-2i in., thickly 

 coriaceous, dark green, shining, abruptly acuminate, base contracted : veins j< in. apart, 

 prominent on both surfaces, anastomosing alon^r the margin: petiole 1 in. I- I:M \i.i; tl. 

 j in. diam. ; pedic.-l 1 in. N,y <//.- spreading, lar^r, url.iciilar. coii.-ave, blood-red 

 within. I '( ul* obovate, ile.-hv, coloured like tin- sejials, tip reeiirvi-d. Maiiicjiti united 

 below into a ring. Ovary subar.gled, 10-celled ; stigma sessile sub-4 -i^onal, minutely 

 tubercled, broader than the ovary. "Ovary 9-celled ; stijma clnsely adherent to the 

 ovary, lar^e, orbicular, convex, blood-ivd, Ih-shy, niar.uin obscurely loiied. Kipe fruit 

 3 in. long, sulrJolH!-., . ba>e slightly 9-lobed, dull yellow, crowned by the at length con- 

 cave stigma.'' Mdnnjni/ mss. 



2(). G. Griffith!!, T.Anders.; leaves^very large ovate or ovate-cordate, 

 obtuse, nerves distant. 



EASTKRH I'IAINSII.A, .Mt. Opbir near Malacca, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 361) ; M<nn- 

 ymj . .Kew Distrib. 153). 



A tall tree ; young branches 4-gonoua, pale green. Leaves 12-18 by 4-64 i n -> coria- 

 ceous ; midrib stout, rigid, angled ; veins very prominent, ,' in. apart, tips free. MALI: tl. 

 numerous, small, bright yellow, in very short axillary woody branches, pedicels '2 in. 

 ,Vy>,//,- ,' fi in. long, concave, ileshy. /Wu/x a little larger, oblong, "dub-red,'' JMdinf/di/. 

 Mniin-iiH many, in a snb-4-guiiai sessile flattened mass: anthers subsessile, 2- 

 Eudimentary ovary 0. FEMALE fl. : "Ovary 12-celled ; style very short, sii-rma 

 peltate slightly convex obscurely lobod at the margin, rough with elevated papil!?e, 

 ]ier>i-tcnt. //////. pomit'orm faintly ribbed, 2 in. in longest diam. tieed two-thirds pen- 

 dulous.' 1 Maingay. 



[There is in Maingay's Herbarium a plant very like this in habit, but described by 

 him as having a circumsciss anther, which is cultivated at Sincapore as the true Gam- 

 boge of Siam.] 



** Stamens of the male flower in an annular mass round the rudimentary 

 ovary ; anthers 2-celled, dehiscence vertical. Stigma broad, discoid, centre 

 depressed. 



21. G. anomala, Planch. & Trian. Mem. Guttif. 174; leaves coriaceous 

 elliptic or oblong-lanceolate shortly acuminate, male and female fl. in brac- 

 teate 3-flowered cymes. [Lanessan M<'m <;<ir<:in. 30.] G. aftinis, Walt. Cat. 

 4bo4 injjart, not of W. & A. Guttifera, Griff. It. Notts, 40, No. 654. 



