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as the cells free or connate, sometimes peltate ; ovules 1-2 or oo, axile or 



erect from the base of the cell. Fruit usually baccate and indehiscent. 

 ^eeds large, albumen 0; embryo consisting of a large radicle (tigellus) with 

 ' fitoall or obsolete cotyledons, or of thick free or consolidated cotyledons with 



a very short inferior radicle. — A large tropical family, common in Asia and 



America, rare in Africa, of 24 genera and 250 species. 



Mammka AMERICANA, Linn,, the Mammee apple of the West Indies is occasionally 

 cultivated in Indian gardens ; it bcloni^s to the tribe CalophyUece, and is distinguished 

 ^rn!® val^ately 2-partite calyx which is quite entire in the bud. 



The following account of the British Indian Guttiferce was drawn up by Dr. Thos. 

 Anderson, late ^Superintendent of the Calcutta Botanic Garden, shortly before his death 

 ;in 1870. For the reduction of Xatithochymu^ to Garcinia I am answerable, as also for 

 several new species from Maingay's Malacca collections and other sources, and for the 

 reference to Heddome's and Lanessan's works— all such additions are either enclosed 

 between [ ] or signed with my initials —7. J), Booker. 



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Tribe I. Garcinieae. Owry-cells 1-ovuled ; stigma sessile or siibsessile, 

 peltate, entire or with radiating lobes. £e)Ty indehiscent. Embryo of a 

 soUd tigellus with minute cotyledons or 0. 



^alyx of 4 or 5 sepals 1. Garcinia. 



;' Ulyx closed in bud, bursting into 2 valves 2. Ochkocarpus. 



fi-J^^^ II- Calophylleae. Ovary with 1, 2 or 4 erect ovules ; style slender 

 c7nf ^P^^ ^^' stigma peltate or 4-fid or acute. Fruit fleshy, rarely dehis- 

 rad I ^^^^^y^ ^^ *w^ *i^«liy frtie or consolidated cotyledons, with a small 



Ovary -ce ed, 1-ovuled; style 1, st! 



OvaryUe ed, 4-ovuled; Bty^^ 



.^vary2-ceUed,4-ovulea; styles 2, stigmas acute 



gma peltate 3. Calophyllum 



tigma 4-fid 4. Kayea. 



6. PiEClLONEUBOK. 



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(Including XA>fTHOCHYMas, Roxh.) 



ra J?^J • ^^i^^^y ^'^"^^ yellow juice. Leaves evergreen, coriaceous, 

 l).];! P"^^^^- Flowers solitary fascicled or paniclerl, axillary or terminal, 

 SVm^^^^' r ^'^^^ 4-S. decussate. Fetals 4-5, imbricate. Male fl. : 

 4_5]'/**,°^'"ee or collected into a ring or an entire globose or corneal 

 on 3l, nrtf 1?'^^^' usually surrounding a rudimentary ovary ; antliers sessile or 

 slitsorn filaments, 2- rarely 4-celled, adnate or peltate, dehiscing by 



free or "^ ^^^^"Pisciss. Female or hermaphrodite fl. : 6^^'mj»')c?c*- 8- :c, 



entire or iT^*^- ^^'^''^ 2-l2-celled; stigma sessile or subsessile, i)eltate, 

 to the im ' S'^O'^th or tubercled : t)vules solitary in eacli cell, attached 

 pulpy aHr^ rf ^^^ ^^ ^''^ cell. Berry with a coriaceous rind. Heeds with a 

 fKnr, f T ~~ ^^^^^^- Tropical Asia, Africa, and Polynesia ; species about 50. 



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not be klnf ?■ ^^- ^°*^- I^engal. xxxvii. 64) rightly states that Xanthochymus can- 

 r .. . «Pt aistinct from Garcinia, for that both 4- and 5-merou8 flowers occur m 



ENus I. Oapdnla proper. Sepals and Petals 4 each. ' 

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carta). 



Stigma divided into rays, or deeply 4-lobed (unknown in 



Stam 



^^e rudimon^,^^ ^^^^ flowers in 4 masses or in k 4-lobe(i mass surrounding 



^nury ovary; anthers oblong, deiiiscingT vertically. 



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