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12. GUTTIFERJE. 



[Garcinia, 



more in each cell ; stigmas as many as ovary-cells or variously 

 consolidated, sessile or on a longer or shorter style. Fruit an 

 indehiscent berry or drupe with a fleshy or pulpy mesoearp or a 

 capsule opening in as many valves as cells. Seeds large, albumen ; 

 embryo consisting of a large radicle (tigellus) with small or obsolete 

 cotyledons, or of thick, free or consolidated cotyledons with a very 

 short inferior radicle. 



Embryo a solid tigellus with the cotyledons 

 minute or 0. 



Calyx of 4 decussate or 5 sepals ... 1. Gaecinia. 



Calyx closed in bud, in flower bursting into 

 2 valves ... ... ... 2. OcHEOCAEPUs. 



Embryo of 2 fleshy cotyledons with a small 

 radicle. 



Ovary 1-celled, 1-ovuled. Fruit indehis- 

 cent ... ... ... ... 3. Calophtiium, 



Ovary 2-celled, 4-ovuled. Fruit dehis- 

 cent ... ... ... ... 4. Mesua. 



1. GARCINIA. Linn. 



Evergreen trees usually with yellow juice. Leaves coriaceous, rare- 

 ly stipulate. Flowers axillary or terminal, solitary or fascicled, rarely 

 paniculate. Sepals 4 and decussate or rarely 5-6 and imbricate, 

 i^etals 4-5, imbricate. Male fl. : Stamens indefinite, free or united 

 in an entire or lobed fleshy mass or tetradelphous surrounding a rudi- 

 mentary style ; anthers sessile or on short, thick filaments, 2, rarely 

 4-celled, erect or peltate^ dehiscing by slits or pores or circumciss. 

 Female or hermaphrodite fl. : Staminodes various, free or united. 

 Ovary 2-many celled ; stigma sessile lobed, smooth or tuberculate ; 

 ovules solitary in each cell attached to the inner angle of the cell. 

 Fruit a berry ; embryo an undivided thick radicle (tigellus). 



Sepals and petals 4 each. 



Fruit globose, 4-8-celled, smooth, pulpy ... 1. G, indica. 

 Fruit ovoid, somewhat curved, and with 



6-8 longitudinal grooves ... 2. G, Camlogia, 



Fruit globose, 4-celled, not pulpy ... 3. G. Morella. 



Sepals and petals 6 each. 



Ovary not seated on disk. Stigmatic lobes 5-6. 

 Leaves large, up to 20 in, long. Fruit large, 



2 in. in diam. J yellow ... ... 4. G» Xanthochymus, 



Leaves medium-sized, up to 5 in, long. 



Fruit 1 in. in. diam., green ... 5. G. omlifoUa, 



Ovary seated on mamillated disk. Stigmatic 

 lobes 3 ... ... ... ... 6. G.malaharica. 



1. G. indica, Chois. in DO. Prod. 1. 561; Fl. Br. I. 1. 261. O, 

 purpurea, Roxb. Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. El. 31 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 21 ; Grab. 

 Cat. Bo. Pi. 25. Murgal, K. ; Bhirand, ratamha, M. ; Kohum, H. ' Wild 

 mangosteen ' of the English and ' Brindon ' of the Portuguese, 



North Kdnara and South Konkan in evergreen forests ; often planted, 

 n. Dec. -Feb. Fr. ripe Apl.-May. A tall graceful tree, seldom more 

 than 1 foot in diameter, usually buttressed at the base. Bark very dark 



