Garcinia.] xxui. GUTTIFER^:. (T. Anderson.) 269 



Haask. to this. Heifer states that the stem exudes a green varnish, and Griffith de- 

 scribes the juice of the fruit as milky. 



SUBGENUS II. Xanthochymus, Roxb. (Gen.). Sepals and Petals 5, 

 very rarely 4. Filaments connate in 5, rarely 4 erect distant pedicelled 

 spathulate bodies, antheriferous at the top, free portions very short, in- 

 curved ; anthers small didymous. 



28. G-. Xanthochymus, Hook.f. 

 lanceolate acute or acuminate, 

 celled. Xanthochymus 



ii. 633. X. tinctorius, DC. Prodr. i. 562 ; Chois. Guttif. Incl 32 ; Planck. & 

 Trian. Mem. Guttif. 149 ; W. & A. Prodr. 102 ; Wall. Cat. 4837. 



EASTERN BENGAL and the EASTERN HIMALAYA, from Sikkim to the Khasia Mts. and 

 to Birma : EASTEKN PENINSULA, Penang and the Andaman Islds. ; WESTERN PENINSULA, 

 the Circars, Roxburgh, and from the Bombay Ghats southward. 



A middling sized tree; trunk straight; branches drooping, angular. Leaves 9-1 8 by 

 2-4 in., coriaceous, shining, veins |-4 in. apart, reticulated; petiole 1 in., rugose. MALE 

 fls. f in. diam., in 4-8-flowered fascicles, from the axils of fallen leaves, white; pedicels 

 thickened, 1-1 1 in. Sepals ^ in., orbicular, concave, fleshy, unequal. Petals ^ in., 

 orbicular, spreading, thin. Stamens in 5 broad bundles of 3-5, alternating with 5 fleshy 

 glands, anthers 2-celled. HERMAPH. fl. like the male. Ovary ovoid, pointed, usually 

 5-celled; stigmatic lobes 5, oblong, spreading, entire. Fruit the size of an apple, sub- 

 globose, pointed, dark yellow. Seeds 1-4, oblong. Yields a large quantity of indifferent 

 gamboge (Roxburgh). The closely allied X. dulcis, Roxb., of the Indian Archipelago 

 has a round-tipped fruit. There are in Heifer's Tenasserim Herbarium imperfect spe- 

 cimens of a plant much resembling this, but with pubesetmt branchlets. " A very variable 

 species in the shape of the leav -s, and length of the peduncles and pedicels ; it yields a 

 tenacious gum of no value." Thwaites. 



29. G-. ovalifolius, Hoohf. ; leaves ovate elliptic-oblong or lanceolate 

 or suborbicular retuse obtuse or acute, male fl. spiked or fascicled, sepals 

 ciliolate. Xanthochymus ovalifolius, Roxb. Fl. Pud. ii. 632 ; W. A, Prodr. 

 102 ; Watt. Cat. 4838 ; Chois. Guttif. Ind. 32 ; Planch. & Trian. Mem. 

 Guttif, 149; Thwaites Enum. 49. Stalagmites ovalifolius, G. Don. 



WESTERN PENINSULA; in forests of the Circars, Roxburgh; CEYLON, ascending to 

 3000ft. DISTRIB. Java? 



A middling-sized tree. Leaves 3|-8 by lf-3 in., shining ; nerves numerous, slender, 

 arched with many oblique transverse nervules; petiole ~4 in. Flowers i-^ in. diam., 

 $ and often mixed in one fascicle, but usually the females are fascicled and the 

 male-: often spiked, the spikes sometimes running out to 4 inches long, with fascicles of 

 flowers throughout their length. MALE fl. : Sepals 4, coriaceous, orbicular, half as large 

 as the membranous orbicular concave petals. Stamens in 5 lone-clawed spathulate 

 fascicles ; anthers few (6-10) didymous. FEMALE fl. usually on much longer pedicels than 

 the male. Staminodes 5, small, with effete anthers. Ovary globose, 3-4-celled ; style 

 very short ; stigma 5-lobed to the middle. Fruit broadly oblong ; size of a walnut, smooth, 

 deep green, 1-3-seeded. A very similar species inhabits Java, but has always acute 

 leaves. 



VAR. 1. ovalifolia proper ; leaves obtuse, $ flowers fascicled 5-^ in. diam. Ceylon 

 and Western Peninsula. 



VAR. 2. spicata; leaves obtuse, $ in long or short spikes, flowers as invar. 1. Xan- 

 thochymus spicatus, W. & A. Prod. 102; Wall. Cat. 346 A. Western Peninsula. 



VAR. 3. macrantha; leaves obtuse, <$ flowers large $-1 in. diam. fascicled, anthers 

 8-12 in each bundle. Xauthochymus ovalifolius? Beddome Flor. Sylvat. Gen. xxi. 

 Western Ghats. 



VAR. 4. acutifolia ; leaves acute, flowers as in var. 1. 



I can detect no further differences than the above between vars. 2, 3, and 4 G.. ovali- 

 folia. Beddome states that var. 3 has a different habit. /. D. H. 



