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GARCINIA CAMBOGIA. (Nat. order Guttiferse.) 



GARCINIA. Linn. — GEN. CHAR. Flowers dioecious or polygamous, sepals 4 in opposite pairs, petals 4; male flower, stamens indefinite 

 free monadelphous or tetradelphous, anthers erect or peltate dehiscing longitudinally or circumscissile, female or hermathrodite flowers, staminodia 

 various free or united, ovary 2 many celled, stigma sessile lobed, smooth or tuberculate, ovules solitary, fruit baccate, embryo an undivided thick radicle 

 (tigella) — Glabrous trees, usually with a yellow juice, leaves coriaceous or submembrauaceous, opposite or ternately vertieellate, flowers solitary, fascicled 

 or subpaniculate axillary or terminal. 



vxARCINIA OaMBQGIA. (Desrous.) A good sized tree, leaves lanceolate of a deep lucid green, 4-6 inches long by 

 about 2 broad, flowers terminal or axillary, sessile sub-sessile or pedicelled solitary or several together ; male, anthers numerous on a 

 short thick androphore oblong 2-celled, dehiscing longitudinally introrse ; female, staminodia surrounding the base of the ovary in 

 several phalanges each containing 2-3 sterile spathulate stamens (or free and as many or twice as many as the cells of the ovary ?) 

 stigmas 5-10 lobed papillose with glands, ovary 6-10 celled, fruit 2|-3 inches in diameter yellow or reddish, 6-10 sulcated, 6-10 seeded, 

 nearly globular or ovate or somewhat elongated, furrows broad with angular edges, and intervening flattened or only slightly rounded 

 ridges, the furrows not being continued to the apex which is smooth and depressed and often nipple-shaped. — DC. Prod. 1. 561 ; — WA. 

 Prod. p. 100. Garcinia Kydia, WA. Prod. p. 101. Cambogia gutta, Linn, in part. Garcinia Roxburghii, Wight 111. p. 125? Gar- 

 einia papilla, Wight Icones tab. 960. 



Common in all the western coast forests of the Madras Presidency, and in Ceylon ; the pigment which exudes from the trunk is 

 semitransparent, very adhesive and quite unsuitable as a paint ; the acid rinds of the ripe fruit are eaten, and in Ceylon they are dried and 

 eaten as a condiment with curries. ^-. . ( c 



The tree is called Heela by the Burghers on the Nilglris, and it yields an excellent straight grained lemon colored slightly elastic 

 wood, which is easi'y worked, and would answer for common furniture. 



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