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XV. GUTTIFER.E 



[Garcinia 



burgh : stamens oo on the 4 lobes of a large fleshy receptacle.) Fruit globose, 

 dark purple, rind thick, full of yellow resinous juice, seeds embedded in snow- 

 white delicious pulp. 



Home unknown, cultivated in the nioister regions of tropical Asia. Fl. November- 

 February. Fr. May, June. The distribution of sexes in Garcinia merits careful study. 

 Pierre has examined more than 1,500 Mangosteen trees, without finding a single male 

 fl. But he adds that several species produce male fl. while 3 7 oung, and female fl. at a 

 later age. Pierre, Fl. For. Cochinch. t. 54. 



Nearly allied : 5. G. pedunculata, Roxb. ; Wight Ic. t. 114, 115. Rangpur (Bengal), 

 Assam. Cultivated on account of the pleasantly acid fruit. Leaves 6-12 in., narrowed 

 into petiole 1-1 J in. long, secondary nerves distant, 10-14 pair. Male fl. large, in 8-12-fld. 

 panicles. Fruit yellow, size of a small melon. 6. G. travancorica, Bedd. Fl. Sylv. i. 173. 

 Tinnevelli and Travancore Ghats, in the southernmost portion of the Peninsula, gre- 

 garious in places. A middle-sized tree, very ornamental. Leaves 2^4 in., linear-oblong, 

 secondary nerves numerous, parallel, almost at right angles to midrib, distinct but not 

 prominent, alternating regularly with shorter intermediate nerves. Ovary 4-celled. 

 Fruit lj-lf in., ovoid to globose, seeds 1-2. 



7. G. speciosa, Wall. PI. As. Ear. t. 258; Kurz, F. Fl. i. 88. Vera. 

 Parawa, Burni. 



A large evergreen tree. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic-lanceolate, secondary 

 nerves parallel, numerous, alternating with faint shorter intermediate nerves. 

 Fl. sweet-scented; <J : 1-li in. diam., on slender peduncles f in., in fascicles 

 of 4-5 at the ends of branchlets, anthers oo ovate, nearly sessile on the fleshy 

 4-lobed mass round the short thick abortive ovary, which is crowned by a 

 large yellow convex orbicular stigma. ? : Solitary, stigma entire or indistinctly 

 4-lobed. Fruit globose, 2 in. diam., bright red when ripe, pulp very acid. 



Tenasserim and Andamans. Fl. February-April. 



Nearly allied are the following eastern species : 8. G. moulmeiuensis, Pierre ; Vesque 

 Guttiferse in DC. Monogr. Phau. viii. 394, Burma, probably G. cornea, Kurz, F. Fl. i. 88. 

 9. G. Kurzii, Pierre ; Vesque I.e. 403, and 10. G. Kiagii, Pierre ; Vesque, I.e. 407, both 

 from the Andamans. 11. G. affinis, Wall, (under G. cornea, L.,in Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 260, 

 G. cornea, L. ; Vesque I.e. 397 is a native of Amboina), Silhet. 12. G. atroviridis, Griff., 

 Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 266. Assam, Malay Peninsula. 



C. Fl. tetramerous. 

 ? : Ovary 2-celled. 



£ : Stamens surrounding a rudimentary ovary. 



13. G. stipulata, T. And. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 267; Gamble List, 7. 



tree. Leaves 6-12 in., thickly 

 coriaceous, elliptic-oblong or ellip- 

 tic-lanceolate, secondary nerves 

 10-16 pair, prominent beneath, 

 with shorter intermediate nerves, 

 tertiary nerves parallel, obliquely 

 transverse, stipules small, early 

 deciduous. Fl. $ : In shortly 

 pedunculate 3-7-fld. cymes, axil- 

 lary', or above the scars of fallen 

 leaves, pedicels \-\ in., bracteolate 

 above their - base and in the axils of 

 acute or rounded bracts. Stamens 

 many, in an annular mass enclos- 

 ing the rudimentary pistil. ? : 

 Singly or in ]3airs. Fruit yellow, 

 oblong, 2-celled and 2-seeded. 



Subhimalayan tract, from Sikiim 

 eastwards, ascending to 5,000 ft. Com- 

 mon in the valleys of the Tista and 

 its affluents. Fl. August, September. 



Fig. 20. Garcinia stipulata, T. And. \. 



