ly covering the 4-lobed fleshy staminal mass ; ovary reduced to a s, 
Garcinia. | GUTTIFERE. 89 
Remarks.— Wood uniformly reddish-brown, very heavy, close-grained, in 
quality equal to the Andaman bullet-wood. Yields inferior gamboge 
4. G@. anomala, Pl. & Trian.; H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 
green tree (30—40 +10—15+43—5), all parts glab 
266.—An ever- 
rous ; leaves ob- 
Hazs.—Not uncommon in the damp and drier hill-forests of Martaban, east 
of Tounghoo, at 4,000 to 6,000 ft. elevation.—F. Apr.-May.—s.— $8. = 
ReMaRrKs.—Sapwood white, soft. Yields inferior gamboge. 
cave rotundate, nearly 3 lin. long; ovary minute, perfectly over- 
topped by the large peltate-hemispherical stigma; berries (unripe) 
ovoid-globose, the size of a small cherry, smooth, crowned by the 
large circular viscose stigma. 
Has.—Southern Tenasserim (accord. H.f.) 
6. G. Merguensis, Wight. ; H-f. Ind. Fl. i. 267.—An evergreen 
tree, all parts glabrous; leaves oblong-lanceolate to ovate-oblong, 
shortly petioled, acute at base, 4-5 in. long, apiculate or bluntish 
acuminate, thinly coriaceous, glossy and glabrous; flowers about 5 
to 4 lin. in diameter, on rather slender pedicels, the males formin, 
mg 
by 3 or rarely 5-9 poor cymes on very short peduncles usually 
arising singly from the axils of the leaves, or if sessile spuriously 
ternary ; sepals orbicular, the outer ones a line long, the inner 2 
lin. long and concave ; males: anthers almost sessile, 2-celled, dense- 
