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XV. GUTTIFEEiE 



[Garcinia 



hvLTgk : stamens oo on the 4 lobes of a large fleshy receptacle.) IFruit globose, 

 dark purple, rind thick, full of yellow resinous juice, seeds embedded in snow- 

 white delicious pulp. 



Home unknown, cultivated in tlie moister regions of tropical Asia. FL November- 

 February. Er. May, June. The distribution of sexes in G-ardnia merits careful study. 

 Pierre has examined more than 1,500 Mangosteen trees, without finding a single male 

 fl. But he adds that several species produce male fl. while young, and female fl, at a 

 later age. Pierre, Fl. Por. OoGhincb. t. 54. 



Nearly allied : 5. a. pedunculata, Eoxb. ; "Wiglit le. t. 114, 115. Eangpur (Bengal), 

 Assam. Cultivated on account of the pleasantly acid fruit. Leaves 6-12 in., narrowed 

 into petiole 1-1^ in. long, secondary nerves distant, 10-14 pair. Male il. large, in 8-12'fld. 

 panicles. Pruit yellow, size of a small melon. 6. G. travancorica, Bedd. PL Sylv. i. 17B. 

 Tinnevelli and Travancore Ghats, in the southernmost portion of the Peninsula, gre- 

 garious in places. A middle-sized tree, very ornamental. Leaves 2-4 in., linear-oblong, 

 secondary nerves numerous, parallel, almost at right angles to midrib, distinct but not 

 prominent, alternating regularly with shorter intermediate nerves. Ovary 4-celled. 

 Pruit li-li in., ovoid to globose, seeds 1-2. 



7. G. speciosa, Wall. PI. As. Ear. t. 258; Kurz, F. M. i. 88. Vern. 

 Faraiva^ Burra. 



A large evergreen tree. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic-lanceolate, secondary 

 nerves parallel, numerous, alternating with faint shorter intermediate nerves. 

 PL sweet-scented; (J ; 1-1^^ in. diam., on slender peduncles | in., in fascicles 

 of 4r-5 at the ends of branchlets, anthers oo ovate, nearly sessile on the fleshy 

 4-lobed mass round the short thick abortive ovary, which is crowned by a 

 large yellow convex orbicular stigma. ? : Solitary, stigma entire or indistinctly 

 4-lobed. Fruit globose, 2 in. diam., bright red when ripe, pulp very acid. 



Tenasserim and Andamans. PI. Pebruary-April. 



Nearly allied are the following eastern species : 8. G. motameinensis, Pierre ; Vesque 

 Guttiferse in DC. Monogr. Pban. viii. 394, Burma, probably (/. cornea, Kurz, P. PL i. 88. 

 9. 0. Kiirzii, Pierre ; Yesc^ue I.e. 403, and 10. G. Kingii, Pierre *, Yesque, I.e. 407, both 

 from the Andamans. 11. G. afBnis, Wall, (under G. eo7^7iea, L.,iu PL Brit. Ind. i. 260, 

 G-. cornea,, L. ', Yesque I.e. 397 is a native of Amboina), Silhet. 12. G. atrovixidis, Griff., 

 PL Brit. Ind. i. 266. Assam, Malay Peninsula. 



C. M. tetramerous. 

 § : Ovary 2-celled. 



^ : Stamens surrounding a rudimentary ovary. 



13. G. stipulata, T. And.; FL Brit. Ind. i. 267; Gamble List, 7. 

 A middle-sized, sometimes a 



large 



Pig. 20* Garcinia stipulata,' T. And. 4. 



tree. Leaves G--12 in.y thickly 

 coriaceous, elliptic-oblong or ellip- 

 tic-lanceolate, secondary nerves 

 10-16 pair, prominent beneath, 

 with shorter intermediate nerves, 

 tertiary nerves parallel, obliquely 

 transvex'se, stipules small, early 

 deciduous. FL (J : In shortly 

 pedunculate 3~7-fld. cymes, axil- 

 lary, or above the scars of fallen 

 leaves, pedicels ^~| in., bracteolate 

 above their base and in the axils of 

 acute or rounded bracts. Stamens 

 many, in an annular mass enclos- 

 ing the rudimentary pistil. ? : 

 Singly or in pairs. Fruit yellow, 

 oblong, 2-celled and 2-seeded. 



Subhimalayan tract, from Sikkim 

 eastwards, ascending to 5,000 ft. Com- 

 mon in the valleys of the Tista and 

 its affluents. Fl. August, September. 



