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have been considered a convenient receptacle for all manner of refractory plants, having oppo- 
site entire polished leaves, and square branches, however much they may depart from the char- 
acters of the order in the form and structure of the organs of re-production. 
According to the arrangement I have proposed the Asiatic portion of the order, all that I 
undertake to investigate, might be thus distributed. 
Gurttirer&. Floral envelopes ranged in a binary order, (two and its multiples). 
Suborder Ist.— Garcinieae—Ovary 4-6-8 or more celled : cells, usually,with one, rarely seve- 
ral, ovules attached to the inner angle of the cell next the axis of the fruit. Style short or wanting. 
Stigma spreading, lobed ; lobes corresponding in number with the cells of the ovary. Flowers 
axillary, solitary, or fascicled, peduncles 1-flowered, very rarely more. Garcinia, Gynotroches. 
Suborder 2d.— Calophylleae—Ovary 1-2 celled: ovules solitary, or several, attached to 
the base, ascending. Style elongated. Stigma radiato-peltate. Peduncles axillary, 1-flowered, 
or racemose, or forming terminal panicles. 
This suborder may again be divided into two sections, or might perhaps be advantageously 
removed altogether to form a distinct order, on account of the difference observed in the ovary 
and fruit, but for the present I, in accordance with all former practice, Professor Martius ex- 
cepted, allow it to remain as a section of the order. . 
Ist.—Mesueae—Ovary 2-celled: ovules several in each cell. Peduncles axillary, 1-flow- 
ered— Mesua, 
2d.—Calophylleae—Ovary 1-celled: ovules solitary or several, erect. Flowers racemose, 
or panicled —Calophyllum, Apoterium, Kayea. 
The genus Xanthochymus [ exclude from the order on account of the quinary arrange- 
ment of its flowers, and for the present refer it to Hypericineae,as being the order most nearly 
akin, in which that structure prevails. It may be objected to this proposal, .that many of the 
Hypericineae have quaternary flowers, but then, the ternary or quinary fascicles of stamens, 
and the 3 or 5-celled ovaries show, that that is not their normal structure, but the effect of 
abortion of parts. Taking number therefore as the basis of our classification, we can no longer 
experience the difficulty which has hitherto been felt in distinguishing the species referable to 
one or other of these orders, and however closely allied in all other respects, this character 
alone, preserves a clear and well marked line of demarcation between them. : 
_ Tf the precedent established by Dr. Graham in the formation of his genus Hebraden- 
dron be followed, we may, I fear, soon expect to see the off-sets from Garcinia about as 
humerous as its species now are, since that genus is separated on account of a variation in a 
single point of structure, and without reference to analo hi 
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