26 XX. HYPERICINES. 
1. HYPERICUM, Linn. 
Calyx 5-parted ; sepals equal, or 2 outer largest. Petals 5. 
Stamens many, in 3-5 parcels. Ovary sessile, 1- or imper- 
fectly 3-5-celled. Capsule commonly splittmg.— 7. Cap. i. 
p. 117. 
A cosmopolitan genus, much more numerous in the northern hemisphere. 
There are 2 South African species, small herbs, with opposite, sessile, dotted 
leaves, and yellow cymose flowers. A third species (H. humifusum), proba- 
bly of European origin, occurs among Drége’s Cape plants; no habitat 
piven. 
Orper XXI. GUTTIFERA. 
Flowers regular, commonly dicecious or polygamous. Sepals 
2-6, rarely more, very strongly imbricate, or decussate in pairs. 
Petals as many as sepals, hypogynous, strongly imbricate or 
twisted.—Male: Stamens mostly many, hypogynous; fila- 
ments mostly short and thick, free or variously connate; an- 
thers thick, mostly opening outwards. Ovary rudimentary or 
more or less formed.—Female: Staminodia surrounding ovary, 
mostly definite or fewer than in the male. Ovary sessile on a 
flat or fleshy torus, 2- or many-celled ; stigmas as many as 
the ovarian cells, sessile or subsessile, radiating or connate in 
a peltate disk, rarely on a long style ; ovules 1 or many axile. 
Fruit mostly fleshy, or with a leathery coat, pulpy within, 
rarely dehiscent. Seeds thick, without albumen. — Mostly 
tropical trees and shrubs, with resinous juice, and opposite, 
quite entire, simple, exstipulate leaves. 
1. GARCINIA, Linn. 
Flowers polygamous. Sepals 4, decussate. Petals 4, im- 
bricate.—Male: Stamens many, free or connate in an entire 
or 4-lobed mass, or tetradelphous ; anthers sessile or on fila- 
ments, erect, 2-celled, opening by slits or pores, rarely 4- 
celled.—Female and hermaphrodite: Staminodia 8 or many, 
few or variously combined. Ovary 2-12-celled ; stigma 
broadly peltate, entire or variously lobed ; ovules solitary, 
erect. Berry coated. Seeds enclosed in pulp. 
Tropical trees, with yellow juice; some of them yield the gamboges of 
commerce. Leaves leathery. Flowers terminal or axillary.—A species 
10-12 feet high, with cream-coloured flowers, and beautiful dark green, 
glossy, acute leaves, which (if new) may be called G. Gerrardi, has recently 
been found in the Umvote district, Natal, by Mr. Gerrard (n. 1181). 
