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surrounding a rudimentary ovary; anthers sessile or on thick short 
filaments, 2-, rarely 4-celled, adnate or peltate, dehiscing by slits 
or pores or transversely. ¢ and ¢ Staminodes or stamens 8 or 
more, free or connate. Ovary 2-12-celled; stigma sessile or sub- 
sessile, peltate, entire or lobed, smooth or tubercled ; ovules in 
each cell solitary on the inner angle. Frwit berry-like, rind 
leathery. Seeds vroviada with a pulpy arillus. 
Sepals and petals 4 each; stamens of ¢ in a central shortly stalked 
4-angled or columnar mass; anthers quadrate dehiscing vertically; 
rudimentary ovary 
Male flowers in dual. fid terminal and axillary fascicles; fruit 
4-8-grooved and -celled, apex depressed mamillary; leaves broad, 
lanceolate, acute at both ends ....,....ssseeceereesseemnrenereeteret Cowa 
ale flowers in a terminal 3-chotomous panicle ; fruit smooth; leaves 
obovate, obtuse, long-petioled ..,......s.ceeeseeereeeeeeeeeetettt? P seis c, 
s usually 5 e : 
erect, discrete, pedicelled, ROTH S eaeta a ean at oe ; 
male flowers fascicled shortly pedicelled ; leaves large, linear-oblong, or 
oblong-lanceolate, ROWE le es Xa nthochymus. 
127. Garcrnta Cowa Roxb.; F. I. ii. 622; F.B. T.i. 262; E. D. 
G. 22. 
> eae Monghyr ; Tippera; eek 
A tall erect tree. ernac. Cow 
128, GARCINIA PEDUNCULATA Roxbsi ; I. i626; F. B..1. 
‘ , Rangpur. 
A tall tree. Vernac. Tikil. 
129, — Sagvrcuues ool £ 1B Bole i. 200s ae Bs 
G.99. Xanthochymus pictorius F. ‘T. ii, 688. 
Chittagong; elsewhere planted. 
A small or medium tree. Beng. Dampel. 
Order XXI. TERNSTREMIACEZ. 
Trees, or shrubs, rarely climbing. Leaves alternate, simple, 
entire or serrate, generally coriaceous; stipules 0: ver 
aves opposite, or digi compound or minutely stipulate. 
owers usually showy, _— with 2 sepaloid bracts, regular, 
‘aphrodite, ee xual. Disk 0. Sepals 5. and 4-7, free 
