622 POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Garcinia. 
in length. Bracte an ovate, concave one embraces the 
base of each peduncle. Calyx four-leaved. Leaflets round 
and concave, the exterior pair smaller. Petals four, ob- 
long, concave, expanding, double the length of the calyx. 
Filaments about thirty, short, inserted in a fleshy recep- 
tacle, which also elevates a small headed column or body 
in the centre. Anthers twin. . 
. FemMa.e. Flowers axillary and terminal, solitary, he 
ani: rather larger than the male. i 
Calyx and corol asin themale, Filaments six, seven, 
or eight, about one for each cell of the germ, slender, short, 
each headed with something like a small abortive anther. 
Germ round, with from six to eight sulczate, from six to 
eight-celled, with an ovula in each attached to the middle 
of the axis. The part which becomes the aril in the ripe 
fruit, now forms the wall of the cells. Style none. Stigma 
the aril of each seed, now peltate, verrucose, no evident di- 
vision into lobes. Berry the size of a small orange, smooth, 
when ripe yellow, somewhat torose, having an elevation 
over each seed, one-celled, crowned with the wonted stig- 
ma. Seeds as far as eight, each enveloped in its propet 
succulent aril, but not otherwise separated in the bertys 
emi-ovate. Integument seemingly single, though with 
care it may be divided into two, tough, veined, coats. 
Perisperm and embryo anaetlt as in the aside slernae 
described, 
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_ Biocecous. Leaves broad-lanceolar, Sistas pos 
aii iahellad the female has one, three, or fiveflow- 
ers, with four, five or ten-cleft sets of abortive stamina. 
Srenasiien six to sebisnhed: eiatee eibiiiets: from sid 
Hieds eG in i | , ee 
_ The tree is of a middle. rs: ila 
inferior sort of Gamboge, and the fruit edible, though ot 
