Garcinia stipulata
T. Anderson in Fl. Brit. India 1: 267. 1874.
Lep.: Sanakadan.
Trees, ca 20 m tall; wood orange-yellow, light, moderately hard; bark brown, smooth; branchlets slender. Leaves 15 - 30 x 4 - 9 cm, elliptic-oblong or lanceolate, obtuse or acute at base, acuminate at apex, thickly coriaceous, dark green above, pale green beneath; lateral veins 10 -16 pairs, alternate, distant, ineurved, nerves obliquely transverse, simple, furcate or laxly reticulate; petioles 1 - 2 cm long, sulcate above; stipules paired, 5 - 6 mm long, early deciduous. Male flowers: 4 - 6 in axillary, shortly pedunculate cymes; pedicels 12 - 18 mm long, stout; bracts 2 - 3 mm long, scale-like, concave, acute or rounded; bracteoles 2 near the base of pedicels, concave, 2 - 3 mm long. Sepals 4, orbicular, concave, outer pair ca 8 mm enclosing inner pair of ca 6 mm long, pale green or yellow. Petals 4, creamy-yellow or yellow, ca 1.5 cm long, obliquely ovate, acute. Stamens indefinite, monadelphous in an annular mass; filaments short; anthers bilocular. Rudimentary pistil fungiform; stigmas peltate, convex, minutely tubercled. Female flowers: Axillary, solitary or paired, shortly pedicellate. Sepals persistent in fruit. Ovary bilocular; stigmas tuberculate. Berries 4 x 0.8 - 1.5 cm, oblong, smooth, shortly acuminate, bilocular, locules 1-seeded, yellow, pulpy with yellow gum, persistent stigma orbicular with revolute margins. Seeds 22 x 8 mm, oblong, flattened; testa strongly nerved.
Fl. & Fr. Aug. - May; fruits sometimes persist up to July.
Distrib. India: Common in the valleys of Teesta river and its affluents and North-eastern region, in moist subtropical forests up to 1525 m. West Bengal, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Nagaland and Meghalaya.
Bhutan.
Notes. The fruits are eaten by Lepchas in Sikkim.
Trees, ca 20 m tall; wood orange-yellow, light, moderately hard; bark brown, smooth; branchlets slender. Leaves 15 - 30 x 4 - 9 cm, elliptic-oblong or lanceolate, obtuse or acute at base, acuminate at apex, thickly coriaceous, dark green above, pale green beneath; lateral veins 10 -16 pairs, alternate, distant, ineurved, nerves obliquely transverse, simple, furcate or laxly reticulate; petioles 1 - 2 cm long, sulcate above; stipules paired, 5 - 6 mm long, early deciduous. Male flowers: 4 - 6 in axillary, shortly pedunculate cymes; pedicels 12 - 18 mm long, stout; bracts 2 - 3 mm long, scale-like, concave, acute or rounded; bracteoles 2 near the base of pedicels, concave, 2 - 3 mm long. Sepals 4, orbicular, concave, outer pair ca 8 mm enclosing inner pair of ca 6 mm long, pale green or yellow. Petals 4, creamy-yellow or yellow, ca 1.5 cm long, obliquely ovate, acute. Stamens indefinite, monadelphous in an annular mass; filaments short; anthers bilocular. Rudimentary pistil fungiform; stigmas peltate, convex, minutely tubercled. Female flowers: Axillary, solitary or paired, shortly pedicellate. Sepals persistent in fruit. Ovary bilocular; stigmas tuberculate. Berries 4 x 0.8 - 1.5 cm, oblong, smooth, shortly acuminate, bilocular, locules 1-seeded, yellow, pulpy with yellow gum, persistent stigma orbicular with revolute margins. Seeds 22 x 8 mm, oblong, flattened; testa strongly nerved.
Fl. & Fr. Aug. - May; fruits sometimes persist up to July.
Distrib. India: Common in the valleys of Teesta river and its affluents and North-eastern region, in moist subtropical forests up to 1525 m. West Bengal, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Nagaland and Meghalaya.
Bhutan.
Notes. The fruits are eaten by Lepchas in Sikkim.
