Garcinia] XV. GUTTIFERiE 53 



F. Fl. tetramerous, tf : Anthers on a central mass, 1-celled, dehiscing 

 transversely. 



24. G. Morella, Desrouss. : Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 86. Syn. Hebradendrqn 

 ca/mbogioides, Graham; Wight 111. t. 44. 



A middle-sized tree, branchlets quadrangular. Leaves 3-5 in., thinly coriace- 

 ous, broadly lanceolate. Fl. greenish-white, sessile in the axils of fallen leaves. 

 ^ : 2-3 together, anthers 1-celled dehiscing transversely, filaments short, on 

 a central thick 4-sided column. ? : Staminodes 12, connate at base in a 

 ring round the globular 4-celled ovary, stigma peltate, irregularly lobed and 

 tubercled. Fruit £ in. diam., seeds I. 



North Kanara. evergreen forests (Talbot); South Kanara, moiat forests of the plains 



and ghats to 2.ntHi ft. I!>-M. ■. Fl. .November. Fr. February, March. Common in 

 Ceylon, moist low country to 2,000. 



Closely allied are the following species : 25. G. pictoria, Eoxb. : Wight Ic, t. 102; 

 Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 87. A common tree in the forests on the west side of the peninsula 

 up to rt.'iiHl ft. (Bedd. i. Staminodia in the female flower in 3— i fleshy bundles, each 

 having 2-7 sterile clavate anthers. 26, G. elliptica, Wall. : Vesque Guttiferse, 478. Khasi 

 hills. Silhet. The horizontal anthers of the male flower often bent down at the ends. 



Tin obtained from ff, Morella and pigtoria is equal to the gamboge of 



commerce, which is yielded by a Siamese sjiecies, G. Hanbitryi. Hoik. fil. : Pierre. Fl. 

 Forest, t. 7H, 71. It exudes from incisions made iu the bark. 



27. G. Choisyana, Wall., and 28. G. heterandra, Wall., of the Eastern Peninsula, have 

 broadly ovate leaves, the former membranous, the latter thickly coriaceous. 29. G. 

 Wigbtii, T. And., from the Western Peninsula, has linear-lanceolate Laves. 



2. OCHROCARPUS, Thouars; Fl. Brit, Ind. i. 270. 



Differs from Garcinia chiefly by the calyx, which is entirely closed at first, 

 and afterwards splits into 2, sometimes 3 valves or sepals. Petals 4, stamens 

 numerous, filaments slender", filiform, entirely free or only connate at base. 

 Ovary 2-celled, 2 ovules in each cell, or 4-celled, one ovule only in each cell. 



Species 12, 7 in Madagascar, I in tropical Africa, the rest in India and the 

 Indian Archipelago, eastwards to New Guinea and Fiji. Not in Ceylon. 



1. O. longifolius, Benth. & Hook, til.: Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 89.— Syn. Caly- 



saccion longifolium, Wight Ic. t. )'.*'■>'■>. Vern. Wundy, Punay, Suringi, Kan. 



Alargetree. Leaves 5-!) in., rigidly coriaceous, oblong and oblong-lanceolate, 



generally acute, secondary nerves indistinct, veins in dry leaves distinctly 

 and minutely reticulate. Fl. male and bisexual, 5 iu. diam., white, streaked 

 with red. in dense fascicles, with numerous bracts at base, in the axils of fallen 

 leaves or on the old wood, sepals reflexed during flowering, petals acute. Fr. 

 obliquely ovoid, pointed, 1 in. lone;. 



Western Ghats from Khandala to Malabar. Fl. March, often cultivated. The 

 gloliosc flower buds are used for dying silk. 



Closely allied is 2. 0. siamensis, T. And. (including 0. nervosus, Kutv. F. Fl. i. 94). 

 Lower and (Jpper Burma. Siniu. Cambodia, sometimes in Eng forests. Leaves smaller. 



obi use or emarginate. Fl. Bolitarj or in few-fld. lax fascicles, on long slender pedicels. 



3. CALOPHYLLUM, Linn.: Fl. Brit. End. i.. 271. 



Trees with shining coriaceous leaves, secondary nerves ■/. straight, closerj 

 and evenly parallel, nearly at right tingles to midrib, buds as a rule puhoru- 

 lous with minute rusty hairs. Wood reddish, medullary rays distinct on a 

 radial less distinct on a transverse section, being similar in colour to the inter- 

 vening tissue. Fl. { and ; in axillary or terminal panicles, sepals 1. petals 

 none, or I-S. the 2 inner or all sepals petaloid. Stamens », filaments aliform, 

 fr >r connate at base. Ovary l-celled, style slender, stigma generally peltate, 



