HYPOPETALES. . 
of several species of Camellia, and other species of Thea. 
They are trees or shrubs, generally with large handsome 
axillary flowers, numerous sepals, petals, and stamens; one 
ovary, with 3 or 4 cells, 2 ovules in each cell, and a capsular 
pericarp of 3 or 4 cells. 
ORDER LXXXVI. 
GUTTIFERZ. 
Cuaracters.—Resinous trees or shrubs with entire, per- 
nt, opposite leaves without stipules ; flowers oceasional- 
‘unisexual ; calyz monosepalous and many-lobed, or poly- 
Sepalous ; corolla of 4 or more petals, passing gradually into 
pals ; stamens many, unequal in length, distinct, monadel- 
ous or polyadelphous, anthers adnate, sometimes 1-celled, 
d dehiscing by a pore; ovary superior, 1- or many-celled, 
r many-seeded; style and stigma simple, the former 
times absent; pericarp a dehiscent or indehiscent cap- 
, or a berry, hard externally, but soft and pulpy inter- 
3 seed with no albumen, and with a thin testa, and 
times an arillus. 
XamPLeE.—The Gamboge tree (Hebradendron Cambo- 
the Mangosteen (Garcinia Mangostana), and even 
f Garcinia Cambogia, which yielis a kind of gam- 
y contain an agreeable acidulous pulp, as Mammaa ame- __ | 
