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624 POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Garcinia. 
Mate. ‘Flowers in little terminal umbellets, pretty 
large, yellow, and smooth in every part. Peduncles nearly 
as large as the petioles, clavate, one-flowered. Calyx 
four, equal, ovate, obtuse, fleshy, smooth leaves. Stami-_ 
na numerous, inserted on a somewhat four-lobed, large, 
elevated, convex, fleshy receptacle, which occupies the 
whole centre of the flower. Filaments very short. Anthers 
four-sided, with a small polliniferous cell in each mae 
Germ, no vestige of one. 
Femate. Flowers terminal, and lateral, sokineyi osnile 
Calyx and corol as in the Male. Stamina four, small, un- 
equally bifid, or trifid, filaments round the germ, alternate 
with the petals ; divisions, subequitant, and ending in a 
small gland something like ‘an anther. Germ from six to_ 
eight-lobed, from six to eight-celled ; that part which be- 
comes the aril in the ripe fruit now forms the walls of the 
cells, and is of a paler colour than the rest. Sfyle scarcely 
any. Stigma of from six to eight spreading, variously lo- 
bate; glandular lobes. Berry globular, torulose, of the size 
ofa small orange, smooth, ofa deep yellow when ripe, one- 
celled, with the vertex much depressed, in which rises the 
nipple-shaped apex, crowned with the from six to eight- 
lobed stigma ; seeds as far as eight, semiovate, the inside 
“being thin and straight. Integument single, tough and 
‘veined, the whole enveloped in a large, fleshy; acid aril. 
Perisperm conform to the seed, firm. 0 simple, due. 
‘as in the former species. no bie Bee 
“This elegant treeis so very like my G. Gree i not 
to be distinguished except by the female inflorescence 
and shape of the fruit, which im size and qualityare the 
‘same, viz. an execedingly sharp but: pleasant acid, 
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