Commiphora.] QVRSERAC'EAE. 169 



2. Garuga, Roxb. 



Large trees. Leaves alternate, imparipinnate, crowded at the 

 ends of the branches ; leaflets opposite, subsessile, crenate ; stipules 

 0. Flowers polygamous, in much-branched panicles. Cah/.r 

 campanulate, 5-lobed, valvate. Petals 5, inserted on the tube of 

 the calyx, outside the disk. Disk thin, crenate at the margin, 

 lining the tube of the calyx. Stamens 10, equal or alternately 

 long and short, inserted with the petals ; filaments subulate ; 

 anthers oblong. Ovary ovoid, 4-5-celled ; style erect ; stigma 

 capitate, 4-5 lobed ; ovules 2 in each cell, collateral. Fruit a 

 globose fleshy drupe, with 1-5 bony pitted pyrenes, each 1-seeded. 

 Seed with membranous or crustaceous testa ; cotyledons thin, 

 twice divided into narrow linear lobes, contortuplicate. 



Panicles crowded, short-peduncled, under 6 in. long ; calyx-tube long, 

 deciduous ; ovary villous ; drupe large, -5 in. or more in cliam. ; leaflets 

 usually tomentose, at any rate when young, crenatures short. ..1. pinnata. 

 Panicles slender, few, long-peduncled, often 9 in. long ; calyx-tube short, 

 persistent; ovary glabrous; drupe small, -25 in. in diam. ; leaflets 

 glabrous, crenatures broad 2. Gumllci. 



1. GARUGA PINNATA, Roxb. ; Cor. PI. iii. t. 208; F. 13. I. i. 528; 

 W. & A. 175; Wt. Ic. tt. 1594, 1595; Bedd. Fl. t. 118 ; 

 Brand. For. Fl. t. 13. 



N. Circars, in the forests of Ganjam and Vizagapatam ; 

 Deccan from Hyderabad to Mysore, in deciduous forests ; 

 W. Ghats in S. Canara, Malabar and Coimbatore. 

 A large tree with thick bark and reddish-brown moderately 

 hard wood of fair quality. The fruit is edible. Vern. 

 Hind. Kharput; Ur. Sompotri ; Tel. Garuga; Tarn. 

 Karre vemba. 



2. GARUGA GAMBLEI, King ; W. W. Smith in Bee. Bot. Surv. 

 Ind. iv. 262. 



W. Ghats in Malabar and Nilgiris, up to about 5,000 ft. 

 (Wight, Gardner), Cooiioor and Sigur Ghats (Lawson). 

 A large tree, easily recognized by its long inflorescence and 

 small fruits. 



3. Commiphora, Jacq. 



Trees or shrubs ; branches often spinescent. Leaves alternate, 

 3-foliate or imparipinnate ; leaflets sessile or shortly petioluled, 



