88 GUTTIFERE. [ Gareinia. 
tive conical ovary, which is terminated by a 4-cornered stigma ; 
female hermaphrodites solitary or rarely by 3, peduncled, larger than 
the males, reddish; filaments slender and free, many surrounding the 
ovary ; ovary globular, 6- 8-celled, the stigma sessile, adnate peltate, 
radiately 5-8 lobed; berry spherical, the size of a small orange, 
crimson brown to almost brick-coloured, smooth, several-seeded, 
the seeds enveloped in a snow-white delicious tasting sappy meso- 
carp. 
Has.—Cultivated in Tenasserim.—Fr. May-June.—s. 
Remarxs.—Exudes gamboge of inferior quality. The fruits are a much 
esteemed table-desert. 
2. G. cornea, L.; 
(40—60 + 10—30 + 3— 
pigeon’s egg, somewhat tapering at apex, dark purple, containin 
4-6 seeds in a pleasantly subacid white pulp ; stigma large, peltate. 
Has.—Not uncommon in the tropical forests of Martaban and the southern 
slopes of the Pegu Yomah above Rangoon ; also Tenasserim.—Fr. Begin. of 
RS.—s. Metam., Lat. p. 
REmarKs.—Wood brown or red-brown, heavy, of a coarse unequal fibre, 
hard, rather close-grained. Yields an inferior mand gamboge. es 
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8-9 in. long, bluntish acuminate, coriaceous, glabrous, the nerves 
beneath very conspicuous ; flowers 1}-2 in. in diameter yellow, 
unripe berries ovoid, sup- 
» peltate, orbicular, obso- 
is terminated by a yellow 
