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parted, permanent. Petals 5. Stamens numerous, collected into 
3 bundles at the base. Styles and stigmas 3. Capsule rather 
membranous, 3-celled, 3-valved, with a dissepiment in the middle 
of each valve. Seeds numerous, compressed, ending above in 
a leafy wing. Embryo straight, exalbuminous, with an inferior 
radicle. 
1 C. Hornscnvu’cutt (Blum. 1. c.) h.S. Native of Java. 
A tall tree, with opposite, oblong-lanceolate leaves, which stand 
on short petioles, and terminal panicles of yellow ? flowers. 
Hornschuch’s Cratoxylum. Tree 40 feet. 
Cult. Loam and peat will be a good mixture for this tree, 
and young cuttings will readily root if planted in sand under a 
hand-glass, in heat. 
XII. HARO’NGA (Ronga is the name of H. Madagasca- 
riénsis in Madagascar). Pet. Th. gen. nov. madag. no. 49. 
Chois. prod. hyp. 33. D. C. prod. 1. p. 541. Harongana, Lam. 
ill, t. 645.—Arongana, Pers. ench. 2. p. 91. Hzemocarpus, 
Noronh, Spreng. 
Lin. syst. Polyadélphia, Polyéndria. Berry drupaceous, 2- 
3-5-celled. Styles and stigmas 5. Stamens 15, connected in 5 
equal bundles at the base ; these bundles alternate with the scales 
on the ovary. Sepals and petals 5.—Shrubs with branching 
stems, and the flowers are disposed in branching, many or few- 
flowered panicles, which are yellow. 
§ 1. 
1 H. Mapaeascarie’nsis (Chois. prod. hyp. p. 34.) stem 
round; leaves elliptic-lanceolate, large, on long stalks ; corymbs 
terminal, very large, and very branchy. k. S. Native of 
Madagascar and Bourbon. Arongaria paniculata, Pers. ench. 2. 
p. 91. Hemocarpus paniculata, Spreng. 
Var. B, pubéscens (D. C. prod. 1. p. 542.) leaves smaller and 
more pubescent. h.S. H.pubéscens, Poir. encycl. 4. p. 721. 
Madagascar Haronga. Clt. 1822. Shrub 10 feet. 
2 H. ranceoxa ra (Chois. mss.) stem angular; leaves ovate- 
lanceolate, 1-2 inches long, very smooth, on short petioles ; 
corymb terminal, few-flowered. h.S. Native of Madagascar. 
Hemocarpus corymbosa, Spreng. 
Lanceolate-leaved Haronga. Shrub 8 feet. 
3 H. revoLu ra (Chois. mss. D.C. prod. 1. p. 542.) leaves 
ovate-oblong, obtuse, with revolute margins, very large, with 
brownish nerves ; corymbs straight, few-flowered. h.S. Na- 
tive of Madagascar. Heemocarpus, Spreng. 
Revolute-leaved Haronga. Shrub 4 feet. 
§ 2. 
4 H. moriv’sca (Pers. ench. 2. p. 91.) leaves lanceolate, acu- 
minated, obsoletely crenated ; peduncles axillary, 3-4-flowered. 
h.S. Native of Madagascar.—Pluk. alm. t. 241. f. 5. 
Molluscous Haronga. Shrub 4 feet. 
5 H. crena‘ra (Pers. ench. 2. p. 91.) leaves ovate, blunt, 
large, broadly crenated; peduncles axillary, many-flowered. 
h. S. Native of Madagascar.—Pluk. alm. t. 242. f, 1. 
Crenated-leaved Haronga. Shrub 12 feet. 
6 H. axitra‘ris; leaves oblong, tapering to both ends, 
smooth, and opaque above, discoloured beneath ; peduncles axil- 
lary, aggregate, shorter than the leaves. h.S. Native of Ma- 
dagascar. Harénga, no. 49. Willd. herb. 
Axillary-flowered Haronga. Shrub. 
Cult. These shrubs will thrive in a mixture of loam and 
peat and ripened cuttings will root in sand under a hand-glass, 
in heat. 
Leaves entire. 
Leaves crenate. 
Oxver XLI. GUTTIFERZ (from gutta, a drop, and fero, 
HYPERICINEZ. XI. Craroxytum. XII. Haronea. 
GUTTIFERZ. 
to bear; the trees when broke yield a quantity of yellow gluten). 
Juss. gen. p. 243. D. C. prod. 1. p. 557. 
Calyx of 2-4-sepals, rarely many-sepalled or 5 (f. 104. a.) -6- 
parted. Sepals imbricate, usually cruciately disposed, outer 
ones shortest. Petals hypogynous, 4 (f. 104. b.) -6, rarely 
8-10, usually yellow, free, alternate with or opposite the caly- 
cine leaflets. Stamens indefinite (f. 104. c.), rarely definite, hy- 
pogynous ; filaments sometimes free, sometimes connected at the 
base, or in bundles (f. 104. c.). Anthers adnate, 2-celled, 
rarely 1-celled (as in Havétia), bursting by longitudinal chinks, 
rarely by pores at the apex. Receptacle fleshy, rarely drawn 
out into a 5-lobed disk, as in Chrysdpia. Style simple or nearly 
wanting, rarely with the stigmas distinct, subsessile (f. 104. e.). 
Ovary 2-8-celled, rarely 1-celled, as in Calophyllum ; cells con- 
taining 1 or many ovule. Ovule fixed to the inner angle or 
base of the cells. Fruit sometimes capsular and dehiscent, 
sometimes fleshy (f. 104. f.) and indehiscent or drupaceous, 2 
or many-celled, rarely 1-celled. Seeds wingless, usually arillate. 
Seed covering thin and papery. Albumen wanting. Embryo 
straight, with a small radicle, and large, coadunate, thick, entire 
cotyledons. 
The Guttifere contains trees natives of the hottest parts of 
the world, and well known by their thick, entire, opposite 
leaves, and resinous juice. In the countries where they grow 
they are of great importance. The Magostàna bears a fruit, 
the equal of which is supposed not to exist. The gamboge is 
the inspissated juice of Garcinia Cambogia and G. Morélla ; 
the juice of others is found an efficacious vermifuge, and also a 
remedy for the chiggers, one of the worst pests of equinoxial 
America. The flowers of all being shewy, and the properties 
interesting, every species deserves cultivation. The seeds do 
not retain their vegetative power for any length of time, 
therefore the surest way to obtain plants from the places of their 
natural growth, is to sow the seeds in tubs or boxes of earth, and 
when the plants have obtained strength, they may be brought to 
Europe, but there should be care taken in their passage to 
screen them from the spray of the sea, also not to give them too 
much water. 
Gutlifere is so nearly allied to the Ternstreemiacee that it 
is difficult to distinguish the one from the other; in the Tern- 
stræmiàceæ the leaves are alternate, but this character offers a 
few exceptions, but in the Guttifere they are always op- 
posite. In Ternstreemidcee the calyx and corolla are always 
separate, but in Guttifere they are usually connected ; in the 
first the petals are usually connected at the base, and twisted in 
æstivation; in the second the petals are always free and convo- 
lute in estivation. The seeds in Ternstreemidcee are either 
furnished with albumen or terminated by a prolonged membrane ; 
in Guttifere these characters are always wanting. Guttifer@ 
differs from Hypericinee by the branches, leaves, and peduncles 
being articulated, by the seeds being large and usually solitary in 
the cells, by the anthers being adnate, not articulated at the 
summit. Ternstreemidcee is distinguished from Hypericineeé m 
the leaves being usually alternate, and in the seeds being fur- 
nished with albumen, 
