270 XXITI. GUTTIFER^:. (T. Anderson.) [Gar 



30. r. Anderson!, Hook. f. ; leaves very large 1-2 ft. oblong thickly 

 coriaceous subacute rounded or cordate at the base, nerves numerous strong, 

 flowers large, fascicled, pedicels very stout long, sepals pubescent. 



EASTERN PENINSULA ;. Malacca, Griffith, littoral ("Koondon Belookar"), Maingay 

 (Kew distrib. 157, G. Yaacrophylla, T. And. ms.) 



Braiichlets as thick as the middle finger, acutely 4-angled, almost winged when dry 

 green. Leaves by far the largest of the genus, often 2 ft. by 9 in., very variable in 

 .breadth, nerves very numerous and prominent, meeting in a strong intraniarginal one, 

 interspaces reticulate; petiole 1-2 in., very stout. M.\I,I: II. unknown. FI.M. II. ;] in. 

 di.im., iu axillary many-flowered tViM-i- ].* ; pedicels very stout, 2 in., seated on a suh- 

 globose axillary cushion. Sepals 5, intricate, leathery, orbicular, concave, two outer 

 smaller, all minutely pubescent at the back. J'ftnlx three times as large as ihe sepals, 

 orbicular, concave, contorted in bud. J>i*h very large, of 5 thick llcsiiv pitted ciliate 

 glands, between each of which is a minute staminode with about 5 imperfect anthers. 

 Ocary globose, narrowed into a di-tii.ct >t\le, 4-f> celled ; stigma cleft to the base into 

 4-5 linear-oblon? obtuse rays. " Fruit \vr\ lar^e, pomif'unn, erowneil by the 

 normally 5-celled," Mn'uxjan. This sp 'nc.nnpletely eli.-iracteri/ed by Dr. 



Anderson from Griffith's specimens under the mss. name of Garcin'm f macrophyUa, I 

 h ive now redescribed it from Maingay'> in .r- e,,mp|ete speeiinen^ and in so doing iziveii 

 the name of my late friend the monographer of the Indian ( iuttilT;> to what is eertaiuly 

 by far the noblest species of the -'Mius. (Jrith'th in his notes attached to the ^pecimen, 

 describes the perianth as 4-merous, but I lind ii is always o-merous. /. J). 11. 



DOUHTI i i 



G. SDCCIPOLIA, Kurz in Journ. Beng. As. Soc. xli. pt. 2, of which the female flower 

 and fruit are not known. It is a native of Martaban. 



2. OCHROC ARPUS, Thouars. 



( ( 'alijti(ic<-in, Wight.) 



Trees with coriaceous leaves and axillary polygamous flowers. fV//r 

 closed before flowering, at length o]K'nin: r into ^, rarely 3, valves or sepals. 

 -i-7 or more. NA///^//.v imU-linite, filaments filiform, five nr shortly 

 connate below ; anthers erect, oblong or linear, dehiseence vertical. Ucm-y 

 2-eelled ; styl- short, stout, stigma .'i-lobed ; ovules 2 in each cell. ll<-n-y 

 1-4-seeded. .SVc/As large ; embryo of a large fleshy tigellus with the cotyled-Mis 

 reduced to a small mamilla or 0. I)JSTJ:II;. A small genus of VV. Africa, 

 Madagascar, and India. 



1. O. lon^ifolius, Berth. &. Honk. f. Gen. PI. i. 980 ; leaves linear- 

 oblong or oblong-lanceolate obtuse, jtedieels fascidcd, petals acute. ]}>'<l<lnm/>. 



Flor. tftfvat. t. M). Calvsaccion lon^ifolium, IT/;//// ///. i. i.-jo, /<. t. n) ( .)i). 

 Mammea longit'olia, Planck. & Trian. Mem. Gnttif. 216. Calopliyllum 

 longifolium, Wall. Cat. 4851. C. chinense Walp. ? cxSeemannin Ji<ni t >l<in<li'i. 



Forests of the WI-.SIKRX rK\ixsri,.\ from Canara to the Concan. 



A middling-sized tree ; young branches terete, youngest 4-gonous. Leaves 6-8 by 

 2-2 4 in-, thickly coriaceous, dark-green, base rounded, midrib .stout prominent, veins few, 

 indistinct, very slender, united by innumerable venules which give the dried leaf a 

 \ery beautifully lacunose appearance ; petiole short, stout, in. Flowers H in. diain., 

 on nodes clothed with subulate braoteolea in the axils of faUen leaves; buds globose; 

 pedicels 1 in., slender. Calyx bursting into 2 valves, reflexed during flowering. /'< /<//.; 

 4, thin, deciduous, white. Stamen* many. Hyle, subulate ; stigma broad, discoid. IT nil 

 1 in. 1 >ug, obliquely ovoid, tipped by the hard pointed style, siipiiate, 1-seuded. [Flowers 

 often hermaphrodite in cultivation, and used for dyeing silk. Btddome.} 



2. O. siamensis, T. Anders. ; leaves linear-oblong or oblong-lanceolate 

 or oblanceolate obtuse, pedicels 1-2 rarely fascicled, petals rounded at the tip. 



