Oarcinia.] xxn. guttifer^e (oliver). 165 



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

 solitary. Fruit baccate. Embryo an undivided thick radicle {tigella).— 

 Glabrous trees, usually with a yellow juice. Leaves coriaceous or submem- 

 branous, opposite or ternately verticillate. Flowers solitary, fascicled or 

 subpaniculate, axillary or terminal. 



A considerable geuus, confined to the tropics of the Old World, most numerous in Asia, 

 loe African species appear to be endemic. 



tn all the tropical African species of which I have seen flowers, the sepals of the outer 

 pair are much smaller than those of the inner. It is possible, therefore, that by Messrs. 

 * lanchou and Triana, the authors of a recent admirable monograph of the Guttifera, they 

 wo u 'd be referred to the genus Rheedia, their African R. Smeafhmanni, a Sierra Leone 

 hi!' ' )e ' n ^ ^ escr '^ e( l w ' tn 2 minute bracteoles contiguous to the (diphyllous) calyx ; a di- 

 phyllous calyx being a character of that genus. It will be observed that, with the same 

 condition as to the calyx, we have in tropical Africa both free stamens and stamens wholly 

 ■ variously connate in distinct or united phalanges. Rheedia Smeathmanni, PI. et Tr. 

 (described from a single leaf, and flowers of which the petals and sexual organs have been 

 destroyed by insects), I include in Garcinia. 



Filaments free, at least above, in the males. 



Stamens distinct, singly inserted in disk; anthers peltate-affixed, 

 waves very coriaceous, broadly elliptical obtuse 1. G. Lioingstonei. 



stamens in 4 deeply trifid (tri-(olie-)audrous) phalanges. Leaves 



i*wl. ........... , 2. G. ovalifolia. 



tamens free or variously connate, inserted in corrugate disk. Leaves 



s ob 'anceolate coriaceous 3. G. Barteri. 



aniens in 4 phalanges. Leaves coriaceous, 4-9 in., oblong-ellip- 

 tical ....... 4. G.polgantha. 



Filaments connate throughout in four distinct or united phalanges. 



in thers linear, recurved above, multilocellate . 5. G. Mannii. 



fathers short, radiating around semicircular phalange 6. G. punctata. 



" es oval, subacute, with prominent subparallel veins. Female 



oower with short bracteate peduncle or subsessile 7- G. huillensis. 



\ G. Livingstonei, T. And. in Jottrn. linn. Soc. ix. 263. A shrub 

 0r bush-like tree, with a trunk sometimes 3 ft. diam. (Dr. Kirk). Leaves 

 Ver y coriaceous, opposite or ternate, broadly elliptical or obovate-elhptical, 

 a Pex vp™ r^„„..i„ i„.i 4.:_„ „« «i;„l,+l, r mnnm-infitA • hase rounded or 



*r~*> °-of in. long, l-k-zi in. broaci, suosessnu ui uu pw««« "*>« — 



lu g 1 or 2 lines. Flowers axillary, often from the wood of the previous year 

 °r still older branches; pedicels *-l in. long, often fascicled on thickened 

 ea fless nodes. Two outer sepals minute, orbicular ; two inner broadly ovate- 

 [ ot «ndate, equal or unequal, about half as long as, or the inner nearly equal- 

 ! n S. the 5 white or pale greenish petals. Male fl. : Stamens indefinite d,s- 

 2* spreading, the rather thick filaments singly inserted m the disk ; 

 *ger» srnall) obl peltatelv affixed, 2-celled, dehiscing longitudinally ; 



^nnent of ovary Hermaphrodite fl. : Stamens about 15 or more, in- 

 e f^ in the fleshy hypogynous disk. Ovary usually 2-celled with a sessile 

 B?* stigma and solftarv ovules. Berry 2-(3)-seeded, 1-H Bh d««n., 

 Wlt » a fleshy juicy pericarp/which is said to be pleasant eating. 



