Sardinia.] xxiii. guttiferje. (T. Anderson.) 261 



t Malefiamr in Z-ax-fld. terminal and axillary fasdcles; fruit subglobose 

 or ovmd, tip mamiUar {wnknmon in Gk bancana). 



4 G. Indlcac^ Chois. in DC. Pro(^r. ii.56i (according to Lanessdtn Mem. 

 Gm-ein. 45) ; leaves obovate- or oblong-lanceolate acute or acuminate, male 

 pedicels 1-1| in,, fruit globose as large as an orange purjile not furrowed. 

 Planch, dr Trvm. Mem. QuUif. 183 ; Lanemkn Mem. Garciii. 45. G. pur- 

 purea, floa*. Fl.. Ind.'a.. 624 ; Graham, Gat. Bomih PI. 25 ; WigU III. i. 125 ; 

 Bak.i: Gibs, Bomh. FI..ZI ; Beddome Fl(ir..^lvat. Gen. xxi. ; Planch. <b 

 Trian. Mem. Guttif.. 191. G. celebica, Dem)ms..in Lamk. EivSyd. iii. 700; 

 aadCAots. Gvitif. Ind..33 (itot of B'lmph.). Brindonia indica, BvlpetU-Tk 

 in Diet. Se. Nat. v. 340.. 



Westeeh Penuisdla ; Ghats of Concan and Ganara.— Disteib. OaltivateJ in Bom- 

 bay, Mauritius, &e. (7 haiBe seen no, specimen.) 



A slender tree, with drooping, branches. Leaves 24-3^ in., dark-green, young red, 

 membranous, muoronate rarelj obtuse. Maue fl. 4-8 in axillary and. tei-minal fascicles ; 

 buds as large as a pea. Sepals orbicular, outer smaller,; Petals rather larger. Stamens 

 numerous (12-20 Beddome), forming ft Short capitate column.; anthers oblong, 2-celiied, 

 opening longitudinally. Fem. B. solitary, terminal, shortly and strictly peduncled. 

 Staminodes in 4 masses. Ovary i-S-ueHed ; stigma of as taanjj' lobes, i'rmt spherical, 

 as large as a small orange, purple throughout, not grooved. Seeds 5-8, compressed, 

 eiclosed in an acid pulp. (^Characters from Moxbwrgh, &c) 



I have followed Planchon and Triana and Lanessian in referring the O. pwrpurea 

 of JRoxburgh (not of Herb. Wallich) to O. indica of ChoiSyj. a plant known frjm 

 Mrly times as the Brindou of -the Portuguese, and cultivated: as such in Goa and the 

 Mauritius. It was described by Garcias in 1574, hy J. Bauhin in, 1623, and by Bay 

 iu 1688. Eoxburgh states of his G. purpwea that it was sent to him. bjr I>r. Beny 

 from a g&rden, and -was supposed to come from the teastern Archipelago. Gratam 

 (Cat. PI. Bombay) says that 0. purpv/rea, Koxb., is the Brindall of the Portuguese, is 

 cultivated in the gardens of Bombay, and found wild in the ra.vines q£ Kandalla,, &e. 

 The juice of the fruit is used as a mordant, and the expressed oil of the seed is the 

 Kokum oil of the natives, extensively used to adulterate Ghee. 



There are in the Hoofcerian Herbarium gpeoimiens from Lambert's Herbarium labelled 

 purpurea, Eoxburgh, but they are impertect ; th.eir leaves are rather small, elliptic, 

 with very oblique somewhat distant nerves, and resemble thpse of ff. Gambogia and 

 0. Morella, and are perhaps reiferable to &. Umcecefolia. — J. I). S. 



5. Cr. malaccen&e,, Hook. /..; le&»Teavery coriaceous elliptic acum.inate, 

 nerves very fine spreading close-set connected beneath, by oblique nervolea^ 

 malefl. lin. diam, stoutlypedicelledfascicled, female 1.^2.in..diam., stamens 

 in a dense stipitate conical column. 

 EasiSikh Pehinbula; Malacca, MAiMgayf (Gi coraea,. Roxb., Kew distrib. 149.) 

 BiNmcheg stout, 4-aiigled. Leaves 5-7 by 2r2i in., abr.ifptly afturainate, hardly 

 shiiiin'g above, brown Wheli dry ; petiole 4 in. Male fl. on stout jledicels J-| in., in 

 terminal fasdioles of 4-16. Segals orbicular, odnca.ve, Pettds twice as long, dull-red, 

 broadly ovate, shortly-clawed. Stainent: yery numerous, densely imbricated in a narrow 

 c;onical or pyramidal mass, filaments ver^ short ; anthers aidn^ite, ovoid, 2-celled, some 

 oolong, otbfers broader than long. Sudimentary ovary, 0. Female fl. .solitary, ter- 

 minal, rose-coloured, Staminodus few. Ovary, glohuaa, 8.-celled ; stigma sessile, very 

 Urge, convex, env»lopiMg halt the ovary, 8-oleft alroost to the ooncavu centre. .Prwit, 

 Unknown.^So like (i. Dpeatabilis that ibut for the structure of the androecium (which is 

 cisnflrmed by Maiingay's carelul analysis), 1 should, have hesitated in separating it from, 

 that plant, which again differs irom 0. cornea^ chiefly in the much larger flower. 

 Camming'' s 2296 from the same locality (referred by Ohoisy to O. venulosa of the 

 Philippines, and by T. Anderson to 0. cornea) may be this same plant. — /. JD. S. 



«. e. Oambog'ta, Diir&uss. in Lartik. E'$c/gcl. iii. 701 ; leaves oblong 

 elliptic or lanceolate dark green beuesttii, nerves very oWiqae, male pedicels. 



