Garcinia] XV. GUTTIFEEiE 5B 



E. M. tetramerous, c? : Antliers on a central mass, 1-celled, dehiscing 

 transversely. 



24. G. Morella, Desronss.; Bedd. Fl. S^dv. t. 86. Syn. Hebradendron 

 cambogioides, Graham ; Wight 111. t. 44. 



A middle-sized tree, branchlets quadrangular. Leaves 3-5 in., thinly coriace- 

 ous, broadly lanceolate. Fl. greenish- white, sessile in the axils of fallen leaves. 

 (J : 2-3 together, anthers 1-celled dehiscing transversely, filaments short, on 

 a central thick 4-sided column. ? : Staminodes 12, connate at base in a 

 ring round the globular 4-celled ovary, stigma peltate, irregularly lobed and 

 tubercled. Fruit f in. diam,, seeds 4. 



North Kanara, evergreen forests (Talbot) ; Soutli Kanara, moist forests of the plains 

 and ghats to 2,000 ft. (Bedd.). Fl. November. Fr. February, March. Common in 

 Ceylon, moist low country to 2,000. 



Closely allied are the following sioecies : 25. G. pictoria, Boxb. ; Wight Ic. t. 102 ; 

 Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 87. A common tree in the forests on the west side of the peninsula 

 tip to 3,500 ft. (Bedd.). Staminodia in the female flower in 8-4 fleshy bundles, each 

 having 2-7 sterile clavate anthers. 26. G. elliptica, "Wall. ,* Vesque Guttiferse, 478. Khasi 

 hills, Silhet. The horizontal anthers of the male flower often bent down at the ends. 



The pigment obtained from G. Morella and 2^^<^tooHa is equal to the gamboge of 

 commerce, which is yielded by a Siamese species, G Hmiburyi^ Hook. fil. ; Pierre, FL 

 Forest, t. 73, 74. It exudes from incisions made in the bark. 



27. G. Choisyana, Wall,, and 28. G. lieterandra, Wall , of the Eastern Peninsula, have 

 broadly ovate leaves, the former membranous, the latter thickly coriaceous. 29. G. 

 Wightix, T. And., from the Western Peninsula, has linear-lanceolate leaves. 



2. OCHROCARPUS, Thouars; M. Brit. Ind. i. 270. 



Differs from Garcinia chiefly by the calyx, which is entirely closed at firsts 

 and afterwards splits into 2, sometimes 8 valves or sepals. Petals 4, stamens 

 numerous, filaments slender, filiform, entirely free or only connate at base. 

 Ovary 2-celled, 2 ovules in each cell, or 4-celled, one ovule only in each cell. 



Species 12, 7 in Madagascar, 1 in tropical Africa, the rest in India and the 

 Indian Archipelago, eastwards to New Guinea and Fiji. Not in Ceylon. 



1. O. longifolius, Eenth. & Hook. fil. ; Bedd. M, Sylv. t. 89.-- Syn. Caly- 

 hacclon longifolium^ Wight Ic. 1. 1999. Vern. Wtmdy^ Punay^ Surlngi, Kan. 



A large tree. Leaves 5-9 in., rigidly coriaceous, oblong and oblong-lanceolate, 

 generally acute, secondary nerves indistinct, veins in dry leaves distinctly^ 

 and minutely reticulate. Fl. male and bisexual, § in. diam., white, streaked 

 with red, in dense fascicles, with numerous bracts at base, in the axils of fallen 

 leaves or on the old wood, sepals reflexed during fioweringy petals acute. Fr. 

 obliquely ovoid, pointed, 1 in. long. 



Western G-hats from Khandala to Malabar. PI. March, often cultivated. The 

 globose flower buds are used for dying silk. 



Closely allied is 2. 0. slamensis, T. And. (including 0. nervosus, Kurz, P. PL i. 94). 

 Lower and Upper Burma, Siam, Cambodia, sometimes in Eng forests. Leaves smaller, 

 obtuse or emarginate. PI solitary or in few^-fld. lax fascicles, on long slender pedicels. 



3, CALOPHYLLUM, Linn. ; PI. Brit. Ind. i. 271. 



Trees with shining coriaceous leaves, secondary nerves oo, straight, closely 

 and evenly parallel, nearly at right angles to midrib, buds as a rule puberu- 

 lous with minute rusty hairs. Wood reddish, medullary rays distinct on a 

 radial less distinct on a transverse section, being similar in colour to the inter- 

 vening tissue. FL c? and ? in axillary or terminal panicles, sepals 4, petals, 

 none, or 4-8, the 2 inner or all sepals petaloid. Stamens oo,,filaments filiform,, 

 free or connate at base. Ovary 1-celled, style slender, stigma generally peltate, 



