GLUSIACEAE. 



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and 4' wide, shining above, dull beneath, and ovoid pointed fleshy fruits 

 about 2' long. 



Garcinia Livingstone! T. Anders., LIVINGSTONE'S GABCINIA, of tropical 

 Africa, an old plant of which was seen at Montrose in 1914, is another relative 

 of the Mangosteen, with elliptic, very obtuse, crenulate veiny short-petioled 

 leaves 3'-6' long, 1J-4' wide, and edible fruit about 1' in diameter. 



Family 5. TURNERACEAE H.B.K. 

 TURNERA FAMILY. 



Perennial herbs or shrubby plants. Leaves alternate, simple, sometimes 

 with 2 glands at the base. Flowers mostly perfect, regular, axillary. Calyx 

 of 5 imbricated sepals. Corolla of 5 convolute deciduous petals. Stamens 

 5, inserted with or near the petals; filaments distinct; anther-sacs opening 

 lengthwise. Gynoecium compound, of 3 united carpels. Ovary free, 

 1-celled. Styles 3. Stigmas dilated or usually many-cleft. Ovules nu- 

 merous in 2 rows on the 3 parietal placentae, these opposite the three styles. 

 Capsule 1-celled, 3-valved. Seeds slightly curved. Embryo straight in the 

 copious fleshy endosperm. Six genera and about 90 species, mostly of 

 tropical distribution. 



1. TURNERA L. 



Shrubs or shrubby plants, with glabrous or pubescent foliage. Leaves few, 

 alternate, entire, toothed or pinnatifid. Flowers solitary in the upper axils, or 

 sometimes in clusters. Sepals 5, more or less united, imbricated. Petals 5, 

 usually yellow, convolute, inserted at the throat of the calyx-tube. Stamens 5, 

 inserted near the petals ; filaments somewhat flattened, distinct ; anthers 2- 

 celled. Stigmas 3, brush-like. Capsule 3-valved. Seeds curved, with a pitted 

 or rough testa. [In honor of William Turner, English botanist.] About 60 

 species, all but one of them native of tropical and subtropical America, the 

 following typical. 



1. Turnera ulmifolia L. TUR- 

 XERA. (Fig. 271.) A shrub, l-3 

 high, the slender branches ascending, 

 pubescent. Leaves lanceolate to 

 ovate, rather thin in texture, pubes- 

 cent beneath, ll'-4' long, acute or 

 acuminate at the apex, narrowed at 

 the gland-bearing base of the blade, 

 sharply serrate, the pubescent petioles 

 \' long or less; peduncles adnate to 

 the petioles; bracts lanceolate, acumi- 

 nate ; petals obovate, bright yellow, 

 much longer than the sepals; capsule 

 subglobose to ovoid, pubescent, about 

 3" long, many-seeded, the seeds cylin- 

 dric. 



In thickets between Castle Harbor 

 and Harrington Sound, Abbot's Cliff and 

 Knapton Hill. Native. Florida ; West 

 Indies. Its seeds brought to Bermuda, 

 presumably, by a bird or by winds. 

 Occasionally grown in gardens. Flow- 

 ers in summer and autumn. 



