GARCINIA MOKELLA. (Nat. order Guttiferae.) 



For Geu. Char, see under " G. Cambogia," PI. lxxxv. 



"CrAECINIA MORELLA. (Desrous.) A middling sized tree, everywhere glabrous, leaves elliptic with a very obtuse 

 blunt point and gradually attenuated at the base, about 4 inches long by 1 -| to 2 broad, petioles about \ inch long, flowers sessile 

 several together in the axils oE the fallen leaves, calyx of 4 unequal sepals the 2 inner being much larger than the 2 outer ; male, 

 stamens about 26 closely packed on a raised receptacle in the centre of the flower without any rudiment of an ovary, anthers on 

 very short thick filaments depressed peltate circumscissile ; female flower, stamens 18-20 in one series round the base of the ovary, 

 anthers sterile subquadrate emarginate at the apex, ovary glabrous 4 celled crowned with a large sessile 4 lobed stigma the lobes being 

 2-3 toothed at the margins, fruit size of a cherry globose 4 seeded. Cambogia Gutta, Linn. Fl. Zeyl. p. 87 in part. Hebradendron 

 Cambogioides, Graham in Hook. Comp. to Bot, Mag. Vol. ii. p. 199, t. 27. Garcinia gutta, Wight III. 1. 126 and tab. 44. G-. 

 elliptica, Wall. 



South -'Canara, moist forests of the plains and ghats, <up to 2,000/eei elevation. Ceylon, up to 2,000 feet elevation ; called Gohatoo or 

 Kana-goraha in Ceylon, and Aradal and Punar puli in S. Canara; it is the true Gamboge of commerce, and the pigment which exudes from 

 wounds in the trunk is largely collected and exported from Ceylon and Siam ; hit little or no attention seems to be paid to it in this country. 

 In this Presidency I have only met vjiih the tree in S- Canara, though it probably occurs elseiohere ; it is closely allied to G. pictoria, which is our 

 common species, and scarcely distinguishable except by the female flower. The drawing is from specimens collected in S. Canara, and the analysis 

 from fresh flowers. 



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