92 GUTTIFERE. [ Garcinia. 
on the upper side of the fleshy erect short mass; female flowers, 
&e., unknown. 
Has.—Frequent in the pane en ay of the alluvial lands of the Sittang 
and Irrawaddi Rivers.—Fl. Apr ==AlT. 
xs.—Wood white, eae Se ts rather heavy, coarsely 
fibrous, eure perishable. Yields little and inferior ee 
. G. paniculata, Roxb.; H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 266.—A dioecious 
tree, about 60 ft. high, all parts glabrous; leaves oblong-lanceolate 
to lanceolate, shortly petioled, rather acute to bluntish, 4-6 in. long 
or longer, acuminate at the base, coriaceous ; flowers middling-sized, 
white, on 4-cornered pedicels nearly a line long, the males nume-- 
rous, in peduncled lateral trichotomous glabrous panicles; the 
females fewer in number, forming short terminal spike-like racemes ; 
sepals broadly concave-cordate, about 1 4 lin. long, fleshy ; petals 4, 
ovate to oblong-ovate, concave, 24-3 “in. long, fleshy ; anthers 
almost pea crowded on the large ate deo fleshy torus ; 
staminodes 1» fom ales none or represented by 1 or 2 filaments only ; 
ovary sheds secboteal by the large convex entize glandular-rough 
stigma ; berries almost globose, the size of a cherry, yellow, usually 
4-celled and 4-seeded; the stigma rather small, sessile, convex-cir- 
i. CaBapting. 
3. G. elliptica, Wall. (G. heterandra, Wall. ; H.f. Ind, Fl. i. 
265).—Tha-nat-tau.—An evergreen tree (40—60 + 10—30 + 3 
—5), all parts glabrous ; bark thin, smooth; leaves from broadly 
oblong and elliptical to obovate-oblong, acute at base, on a thick 
petiole, 4 in. long, apiculate or shortly and bluntish acuminate, 8-9 
rig 2 glabrous, coriaceous, the nerves beneath prominent and 
rather 1 
dehiscent; 2 ig ee shortly 4-lobed ; berries globular or ovoid globular, 
almo in. thick, smooth, 4-celled ; the stigma small, hemi- 
sperial, wrinkled. 
—Frequent in the ta forests of the eastern sa Pa of — = 
Toosh ‘and of Martaban, o 3,000 ft. elevation; also Tenasserim.—Fr. 
Febr.—s.—SS.=Si8., Metam. 
Remakks.—Wood soft, white. Yields a superior quality of gamboge. 
* * Flowers 5-merous. 
eat G. dulcis, Kz.—An evergreen tree (30—40 + 10—15 + 
lygamous, all parts glabrous ; leaves oblong to ovate-oblong 
SECT thick petiole, obtuse or rounded at base, 8-12 in ’ 
= ions, shortly acuminate, coriaceous, glossy ; flowers rather large, 
