GARCINIA PICTOEIA. (Nat. ord. Guttiferae.) 



For Gen. Char, see under "G. Cambogia." 



GrAECINIA PICTOMA. (Roxb.) A good sized tree, everywhere glabrous, leaves elliptic with a blunt rather sudden 

 point at the apex, and gradually attenuated at the base, about 4 inches long by 1| broad, flowers sessile aggregated in the axils of the 

 fallen leaves; male, stamens numerous closely packed on a fleshy more or less 4 sided receptacle in the centre of the flower, filaments short, 

 anthers depressed peltate circumscissile, no rudiment of an ovary; female, staminodia in a ring round the base of the ovary, filaments in 

 3-4 rarely 5 phalanges each bearing 2-7 sterile clavate anthers, ovary oblong 4 celled, stigma sessile of 4 verrucose lobes which are 

 3-4 toothed at the margins, berry size of a large cherry oval oblong smooth crowned with the permanent stigma. Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. p. 

 627. (Desc. of fem. flower incorrect.) 



This is a very common tree in all our western forests up to about 3,500 feet elevation ; it is closley allied to G. Morella, but differs in 

 the female flower. 



Mr. Broughton has analyzed some of the pigment, and informs me that it is excellent and quite equal to that of G. Morella. The 

 timber is used by the natives for various purposes. The drawing is taken from fresh specimens collected about the foot of the Nilgiris belovj 

 Makurty. 



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