624 poLYANDRiA MONOGYNIA. Garcinia. 



Male. Flowers in little terminal nmbellets, pretty 

 large, yellow, and smooth in every part. Peduncles nearly 

 as large as the petioles, clavate, one-flowered. Calyx 

 four, equal, ovate, obtuse, fleshy, smooth leaves. Stami- 

 na numerous, inserted on a somewhat four-lobed, large, 

 elevated, convex, fleshy receptacle, which occupies the 

 whole centre of the flower. Filaments very short. Anthers 

 four-sided, with a small polliniferous cell in each angle. 

 Germ, no vestige of one. 



Female. Flowers terminal, and lateral, solitary, sessile. 

 Calyx and corol as in the Male. Stamina four, small, un- 

 equally bitid, or trifid, filaments round the germ, alternate 

 with the petals ; divisions, subequitant, and ending in a 

 small gland something like an anther. Germ from six to 

 eight-lobed, from six to eight-celled ; that part which be- 

 comes the aril in the ripe fruit now forms the walls of the 

 cells, and is of a paler colour than the rest. Style scarcely 

 any. Stigyna of from six to eight spreading, variously lo- 

 bate, glandular lobes. Berry globular, torulose, of the size 

 of a small orange, smooth, of a deep yellow when ripe, one- 

 celled, with the vertex much depressed, in which rises the 

 nipple-shaped apex, crowned with the from six to eight- 

 lobed stigma; seeds as far as eight, semiovate, the inside 

 being thin and straight. Integument single, tough and 

 veined, the whole enveloped in a large, fleshy, acid aril. 

 Perisperm conform to the seed, firm. Embryo simple, &c. 

 as in the former species. 



This elegant tree is so very like my G. Cowa, as not 

 to be distinguished except by the female inflorescence 

 and shape of the fruit, which in size and quality are the 

 same, viz. an exceedingly sharp but pleasant acid, and 

 like the rest of the genus, the aril is by Hir the more pala- 

 table part. 



6. G. purpurea. R. 



Leaves lanceoiar, obtuse. Stigma eight-lobed. Berry 



