632 POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Xanthochymus. 
seven, or eight short portions, each of which supports a 
twin anther, Germ in the hermaphrodite ovate, smooth, 
five-celled, with one ovulum in each, attached to the mid- 
dle of the axis. Style scarcely any. Stigma five-lobed. 
Berry the size of an apple, from round to oval, obtuse, 
smooth, bright yellow when ripe, fleshy, the flesh or pulp 
in quantity, yellow, and rather sweet, one-celled. Seeds 
from one to five, oblong, rather pointed at the base on the 
inside, where a large, oblong, lighter coloured space marks 
the attachment. Integument single, reticulated with light- 
er coloured veins, on a dark cinnamon-coloured ground. 
Aril a large portion of the pulp, of rather a softer consis- 
tence, somewhat darker colour, and pleasant taste, ap- 
pertains to each seed, which separates spontaneously 
with its seed from each other, and from the exterior, thick, 
fleshy covering when the fruit is perfectly ripe. This is 
the only edible part not only in this but also in all the spe- 
cies of Garcinia. Perisperm conform to the seed, of a 
hard fleshy texture and pale yellowish colour. Embryo 
simple, slender, the length of the perisperm, and scarcely 
to be distinguished from it till vegetation begins, when 
the radicle issues from the more pointed base of the seed, 
and the plumula from its apex. At this stage, a vertical 
section shows distinctly the form of this body passing 
through the centre of the seed (as represented by Gaertner 
in his Mangostana Cambogia. t, 105,) into the ligneous 
part of the plumula and radicle, while the two extremi- 
ties of the perisperm may be as clearly traced to the cor- 
tical part. When vegetation is a little more advanced a 
mére substantial root issues from the base of plumula, as 
in monocotyledonous plants, which increases rapidly while 
the other from the gene is well established, and hon 
perishes, 
9X. isnt eee 
_ Polygamous. Leaves ova, pultiteat diittat 
