630 POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Xanthochymus, 
Mave Frowers terminal, peduncled, from: three to 
nine-fold, pretty large, of a pale yellow colour and without 
smell. Bractes lanceolate, caducous. Calyx of four 
roundish expanding, concave, withering leaflets. Petals 
four, nearly oval, concave, expanding, twice the size of 
the calyx, ofa pale-yellow colour. Stamens yery numerous, 
inserted on a fleshy four-lobed receptacle. Filaments 
very short, indeed scarcely any. Anthers sub-ovate, small, 
recurved, Germ none. Style four-seeded, clavate. Stig- 
ma a large glutinous, abortive yellow gland. 
FEMALE FLOWERS on a separate tree, terminal, ses- 
sile, and always solitary on our single tree. Calyx and 
corol as in the male. Stamens entirely wanting. Germ 
above, ovate, four-celled, with one ovulum in each attach- 
ed to the axis. Style short and thick, Stigma large, 
four-lobed and covered with glutinous glands. Berry 
nearly round, of the size of a medlar, covered with a dark 
purple, juiceless bark, and crowned with a rugose, rather 
elevated stigma. Seeds as far as four each, enveloped in 
a small portion of a pleasant sub-acid, white pulp, like 
that of the real Mangosteen. Perisporm, &c, as in the 
other species already described. 
From wounds made in the sams or unripe fruit, there 
flows a yellow-juice, which soon hardens into a gum Te — 
sin of a tolerably good yellow colour, In this country — 
the plant is an exotic, of course there is no information 
_ to be procured from the natives regarding the quantity 
procurable, nor the uses to which it is applied in its 24- 
tive soil; we must therefore depend on what — 
says, if this be his tree. Bead 
Ms ee weeed: 
SRS _XANTHOCHYMUS. p eee 
“OEE ‘Cuan, Calyx five-leayed. Corol ‘five-petalled. 
Nectaries five, alternate with the five polyadelphous fila- 
ments. Germ from three to five-celled, one. ovalum in 
