G30 poLYANDRfA MONOGYNIA. XantTiochymus. 



Male Flowers terininal, peduncled, from three to 

 nine-fold, pretty large, of a pale yellow colour and without 

 smell. Bracfes lanceolate, caducous. Calyx of four 

 roundish expanding, concatve, withering leaflets. Petals 

 four, nearly oval, concave, expanding, twice the size of 

 the calyx, of a pale-yellow colour. Stamens very numerous, 

 inserted on a fleshy four-lobed receptacle. Filaments 

 very short, indeed scarcely any. Anthers sub-ovate, small, 

 rccur\ ed. 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, w ith 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. Perisperm, &c. as in the 

 other species already described. 



From wounds made in tlie tree, or unripe fruit, there 

 flows a yellow-juice, which soon hardens into a gum re- 

 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 na- 

 tive soil ; we must therefore depend on what Kumphius 

 says, if this be his tree. 



XANTIIOCHYMUS. R. 

 Gen. Char. Calyx five-leaved. Corol five-pet ailed. 

 Nectaries five, alternate with the five polyadelphous fila- 

 ments. Germ from three to five-celled, one ovulum in 



