Xanthocephalum — continued. 
A 
g£ymn 
yellow, about 
to 6in. long, 
jub-spathulate and serrated towards 
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Fic 230. INFLORESCENCE OF XANTHOCEPHALUM 
GYMNOSPERMOIDES. 
ospermoides (Gymnosperma-like).* /1.-heads orange- 
lin, in diameter, corymbose. September. l. 3in. 
lanceolate, linear, and’ small above, the lower ones 
the point, the rest entire. 
to 4ft. New Mexico, 1859. Hardy perennial. See 
SYN. Gutierrezia gymnospermoides (B. M. 5155). 
Fie, 231. FRUITS op XANTHOCERAS SORBIFOLIA. 
AN ENCYCLOPADIA 
OF HORTICULTURE. 221 
XANTHOCERAS (from zanthos, yellow, and keras, 
a horn; alluding to the yellow, horn-like glands or 
nectaries between the petals). ORD. Sapindacem. A 
monotypic genus. The species is a small, hardy tree, 
thriving in any light garden soil. It is difficult to 
propagate in any other way than from seeds; but root- 
cuttings sometimes succeed. 
X. sorbifolia (Sorbus-leaved). fl. white, with blood-red streaks 
at the base, large, regular, polygamous ; sepals five, equal, boat- 
shaped, imbricated ; petals five, elongated, clawed, without 
scales ; disk cup-like ; stamens eight; pedicels long, bracteate at 
terminal. fr. three-celled, the size of an 
exstipulate, imparipinnate ; leaflets ser- 
China, 1870. See Fig. 231. (B. M. 6923 
v., p. 565, and xxvi., p. 205; I. 
base; racemes simple, 
apple. Z. alternate, 
rated. A 5ft. to 15ft. 
F. d. S. 1899; G. C. n. s, 
295; R. H. 1872, p. 291.) 
H. 1877, 
Fic. 232. XANTHOCHYMUS PICTORIUS, 
XANTHOCHYMUS (from vanthos, yellow, and 
chymos, juice ; the plants contain an abundance of yellow 
juice). Syn. Stalagmites. ORD. Guttifere. rege" 
genus (four species) of stove trees, with the > > d 
Garcinia (ander which Xanthochymus is inclu ed by 
Sir J. D. Hooker, in his * Flora of British India"), 
inhabiting tropical Asia and Africa, and Madagascar. E. 
Sepals and petals five, very rarely four ; filaments mær E 
in five, rarely four, erect, distant, pedicellate, spa oe & 
bodies. Berry indehiscent. Three of the species " 
been introduced. They thrive in a compost of loam an 
