GARCINIA TRAYANCORICA. (Nat. order Guttiferee.) 



lor Gen, Char, aee letter press to PI. Ixxxv. 



(jrARCINIA J.RAVANCORICA. (Bedd.) A middling sized tree, leaves very coriaceous narrow oblong to sub- 

 spathulate very obtuse, dark green and shining above paler beneath, 3-4 inches long by about 1 inch broad, primary veins straight and 

 at nearly right angles with the costa, veinlets forming a beautiful net work and very conspicuous on the under side, petioles about 

 ^ to 1 inch long, 2 outer calyx segments much smaller than the 2 inner, petals rounded ; male flowers on very short terminal panicles or 

 racemes which are 1-2 inches long and 5-15 flowered and furnished with small bractes at the ramifications, pedicels very short 

 thickened, stamens in 4 many-fid polyandrous phalanges, anthers about 100 in each phalanx, 2-celled dehiscing longitudinally, no 

 rudiment of an ovary, style thick 2 lines long, stigma very large peltate convex above, exactly like a mushroom, glutinous ; female 

 flowers solitary or twin in the terminal axils, ovary with a very large convex glutinous stigma, 4 celled, effete stamens in 6-8 phalanges 

 each with 2-4 thin filaments, fruit oblong to subglobose, 1^ to If inches long, crowned with the eularged peltate stigma, seeds 15 lines 

 by 7 lines broad, long, flat on the inner face, 1-2 come to maturity, testa bright brown. 



This very beautiful species is the No. 1 referred to in Manual, page xxi. I only procured it last month (August J in flower, and in 

 ripe fruit at the same time ; the tree is confined to the southern portions of the Travancore and Tinnevelly ghat forests f 3000-4500 feet eleva- 

 tion), hut is most abundant in localities where it grows ( Muli-kuli vayal Travancore, Calcad hills Tinnevelly J ; every portion of the tree yields 

 abundance of a bright yellow gamboge, which has not been examined yet ; it is a highly ornamental tree, and seed has been transmitted to the 

 Ceylon and Bangalore Botanical Gardens, it is called Malam pongu in Tinnevelly. 



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