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OiiDEE XX. GUTTIFER^. 



riowers regular, usually dicccious or polygamous. Sepals 2 to 6, or rarely 

 niore, much imbricate or in (iecussate pairs. Petals 2 to 6, rarely more, iui- 

 bncate or contorted. Male fl. : Stamens usually indefinite, free or variously 

 imited; anthers adnata, innate, or sometimes immersed in the mass of tihi- 

 ments. Ovary none, or nulimentary, or more or less developed. Female or 

 jiennaphrodite fl. : Staminodia or stamens usually fewer and more free tlian 

 111 the males. Ovary 2- or more-celled, rarely 1-celled, with 1 or more ovules 

 111 each cell, erect from the base or attached' to the central ande. Stio'mas 

 as many as cells, radiating or united into one, sessile or raised on a simple 

 or rarely branched style. Fruit usually fleshy or coriaceous, indehiscent or 

 opeamg septicidally in as many valves as cells. Seeds thick, often arillate, 

 ^'ithout albumen. Embryo filling the seed, often aj)parentJy homogeneous, 

 consisting either of a fleshy radicle, with minute or without any cotyledons. 



tary, clustered or in trichotouious cymes or panicles. 



A tropical Order Loth in the New and in the Old World, represented ia Australia Ly a 

 single species, apparently identical with a common Asiatic one, 



1. CALOPHYLLUM, Linn. 



riowers polygamous. Sepals and petals together, 4 to 12, imbricate in 2 

 ^1' 3 series. Stamens indefinite, free or nearly so ; tilamcnts shortly hlitbrm ; 

 anthers ovate or oblong, 2-celled, opening longitudinally. Ovary 1-celled, 

 ^vith a single erect ovule* style elongated, with a peltate stigum. Drupe in- 

 flehtscent, with a crustaeeons endocai-p. Seed erect, ovoid or globular, the 

 te^ta tliin, or thick and hard, or spongy and then often adhering to the endo- 

 cnrp. — Trees, with the leaves marked with numerous closely parallel, trans- 

 verse veins. 



The genus is tropical, chiclly Asiatic, with a few American species. 



1- C. inophyUum, Linn.; IF. and Am, Prod, i. 103. A glabrous 

 tj'ee. Leaves pctiolate, broadly oblong or obovate-oblong, rounded at the 

 '^>ex, about 6 in. long in well-grown specimens. Racemes in the upper axils 

 ^"ueh shorter than the leaves, loose. Flowers' large for the genus, on long 

 pedicels, the buds nearly globular. Sepal? 4, the 2 inner ones more petal- 

 bke than the outer ones. Petals 4, longer than the calyx. Stamens more 

 ^5 less united at the base iiito 4 (or more?) bundles. * Fruit globular, the 

 s^zti of a plum.—Wight, Ic. t. 77 ; Planch, and Tri. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Par. 

 ser. 4, XV. 282. 



Queeuslaud, Percy T>]and3, A. Ctfnningham. From the Burdekiu Expedition, //f/(5. 

 ^liielier. The latter specimens cousist only of some young seedlings in leaf only, and % 

 in|its. These are about 14 in. dinuicter, the thick, hard, almost coxk^ testa of the seed 

 atihcnngto the endocarp. Embryo nearly globular, app.irently homogeneons, sHghtly conical 

 3^ t le end furthest from llic hiluin. That this is the radicular cud is shown by the rrmnins 

 ^^ the seed still attached to one of the seedling nlnnts. Whether the position of the radicle 

 turned away from the hilum is accidental iu that one fruit, or general in the species or vnriety, 

 <^^»fniot be determined without furtlier fruiting specimens. Cunningliaui's are iu flower only. 



