DR. AKDEBSON ON GUTTTFER^. 263 



Garcinia Livingstonei, T. Anders. MS. 



Erecta, glabra, rarais abbreviatis, simplicibus, patentibus, decussatitu op- 

 positis vel ternatim verticillatis ; foliis coriaceis, subsessilibus^ ob- 

 I longis, ellipticis, rare ovatis apice rotundatis, inucronulatis, basi sub- 



cordatis, margiue undulatis, crustaceis, reticulatim pinnatinerviis ; 

 petiolo brevissimo, crasso, supra umbone triangulari notato; Jloribus 

 pseudo-hermaphroditis axillaribus^ solitariis vel 2-5 fasciculatis ; pe- 

 dunculis unifloris, patentibus ; sepalis herbaceis 4, in sestivatione de- 

 cussatim imbricatis, per paria oppositis ; petalis 5, sestivatione valvatis, 

 rotundatis, basi late et breviter unguiculatis, reflexis, apice cucuUatis, 

 margine integris, interdum deutatis ; staminodiis in disco biseriatim in- 

 sertis, liberis, erectis, patentibus, disco annuloso, cereo, corrugato ; stig- 

 mate sessili, peltato; ovario compresso, biloculari, basi disco cincto, lo- 

 culis uniovulatis. [F/. masc. Staminibus indefinitis^ numerosis, liberis, 

 filamentis crassiusculis in disco crasso central! singulatim insertis, 

 antheris parvis oblongis peltatim affixis bilocularibus, loculis longitu- 



dinaliter dehiscentibus ; ovarii rudimento 0. — D. O.] 

 Hab, in ruplbus schistosis prope flumen Zambesi, D. Kirkj in horto bo- 



tanico Calcuttensi ex Africa culta. 



Arbor parva, pyramidalis^ succo flavo, viscido. Caulis inferior robustus, 

 superior gracilis, fere virgatus. Cortex cinereus, fissus, rugosusl 

 Folia caulina plerumque decussatim opposita, rare ternatim verti- 

 cillata, ramorum semper ternatim verticillata, coriacea, supra atro- 

 viridia, albivenosa, 3-7 unc. longa, 2-3 unc. lata. 



Flares pallide virides, suaveolentes, odorem Vanilla emittentes ; alabastro 

 globoso* Calyx corolla multo brevior, in anthesi petalis reflexis ob- 

 tectus, sepalis concavis. Corolla semper 5 petalis ; petalis conformi- 

 bus, 3 exterioribus, 2 interioribus. Discus cereus, flavus. Staminodia 

 15-20, distincta, filamentis filiformibus; antheris globosis, crustaceii. 



[Fructus drupaceus, maghitudine Juglandis nucis, 1-2-spermus, meso- 

 carpio pulposo, epicarpio tenui laevi; embryone ellipsoideo, tereti, 

 utrinque obtusissimo, sublsevi v. granulato-ruguloso, e radicula crassa 



camosa 



D. 0.1 



eat 



fruits 



Postscript by Professor Oliver. (Nov. 1865.) 



Prom the specimens collected on the Zambesi by Dr. Kirk, and 

 the careful drawings and analyses made upon the spot by this 

 gentleman, and liberally presented by him to the Kew Herbarium, 

 I have been able to supply some gaps in the above description of 

 this interesting plant. In working up the few Guttiferae of Tro- 

 pical Africa for the proposed flora of that region now in prepara- 

 tion, I have included this plant in the genus Qarcinia^ though 



MNK. PROC. — BOTAKT, TOL. IX. X 



