XANTHOCHYMUS PIOTOKIUS. (Nat. order Guttifene.) 



XaNTHOCHTMUS. Roxb.— GEN. CHAR. Flowers polygamous or dioecious, sepals 5 imbricate, petals 5 ; male flowers, stamens in 5 narrow 

 oligandrous phalanges inserted into or between the lobes of a fleshy disk ; female or hermathrodite flower, staminodia or stamens in 5 phalanges 

 alternating with as many glands and seated round the base of the ovary, ovary 3-6 celled with a subsessile discoid entire or radiately 3-6 lobed stigma, 

 ovules solitary, fruit baccate, embryo thick fleshy with inconspicuous cotyledons. Trees, resembling Garcinia and scarcely differing except in their 

 pentamerous instead of tetramerous flowers. 



XaNTHOCHYMUS PICTORIUS. (Roxb.) A very beautiful middling sized tree, with a most dense foliage of dark green 

 shining leaves, everywhere glabrous, young branches square, sharply angled and often dilated just below the axils of the leaves, 

 leaves oblong, generally more or less attenuated at the base with a short acute point at the apex, 8-14 inches long by 2-3J broad, very 

 hard and coriaceous dark shining green with the veins obscure, (when fresh) petioles J-l inch long dilated near their insertion on to the 

 stem ; male flowers numerous sessile or subsessile aggregated into dense short fascicles in the axils of the fallen leaves, stamens about 7 

 on each phalange, no vestige of an ovary ; female or hermathrodite flowers solitary in the axils of the fallen leaves, each phalange 

 furnished with 2-3 anthers at the apex (apparently fertile), ovary 5-6 celled crowned with a large dilated 5-6 lobed stigma, fruit size of 

 an apple. Roxb. Fl, hid. ii. ^. 633. Stalagmites pictorius, G. Don- 



This very beautiful tree is very abundant in the woods in Coorg, but 1 have also met with it in Wynad, S. Canara, the western slopes of 

 Nilgiris, and other localities in the western side of the Madras Presidency, and on the Bombay ghats ; and it is cultivated in gardens. The 

 specimens figured were gathered below Sisparah on the Nilgiris. The tree yields a gamboge, but I do not hxoio of what quality, lam not 

 acquainted with the timber. 



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