GUTTIFER^ 9 



sepals unequal and with black glands inside the margin, 

 and no gland-tipped teeth or stalked glands ; and the 

 ovary completely divided into three chambers. 



Nilgiris. [G.F.M.F.] 



Gen. Dist. Europe, Atlantic Islands and South Africa. 



GUTTIFER/E. 



Trees with opposite leathery leaves and yellow or 

 greenish juice. Flowers hermaphrodite or unisexual with 

 the sexes on the same or on different trees. Sepals and 

 petals 2 to 6. Stamens numerous, round a rudimentary 

 ovary. Ovary in the female or hermaphrodite flowers of 

 2 to 12 cells, surrounded by a ring of staminodes. Fruit 

 usually a berry with large seeds. 



Species about 300, in the tropics. 



GARCINIA. F.B.1. 231. 



Trees with the characters given above and distin- 

 guished further by the stigma being sessile on the ovary, 

 without style ; the seeds solitary in each cell of the ovary ; 

 and the fruit a large berry with thick rind, and in our 

 species scored with five deep grooves up to the stigma. 



Species about 60 in tropical Asia, Africa and Polynesia. 



Garcinia cambogia Desroiiss; F.B.I, i 261, I 6 as 

 var 2. Leaves broadly elliptic with or without a 

 short acumen, quite entire, coriaceous dark green, 

 with numerous fairly parallel side-nerves. Male flowers 

 nearly sessile, in 3-merous, terminal sessile cymes : sepals 

 and petals 4 ; buds large, the outer sepals bright yellow 

 thick, the inner larger and greener; petals reddish, J^ 

 by Yz inch ; stamens 20 or 30 in a square mass with often 

 no pistillode. Female or hermaphrodite with deeply 

 lobed stigma, sessile on the ovary. Fruit ovoid, i^^ by 



