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translucent dots when held up to the light : also the black, 

 glandular dot.3 of the sepals and petals. 



The flowers of H. mysorense of South India are much 

 larger than those of the type-species. 



15. Natural Order, GuttifercE. — The Gamboge Family. 



Trees or shrubs with opposite, undivided leaves. Flowers 

 unisexual or polygamous. Calyx imbricate. 



Type — Calophyllum Inophyllum. 

 A tree with opposite, simple, coriaceous, shining, closely 

 veined, entire leaves, and axillary, drooping racemes of 

 fragrant, white, polygamous flowers. 



The pistil being normally syncarpous in this Family, it is 

 thus described above, although the ovary is but one-celled 

 in CalophylliiVL Compare with the embryo of the type- 

 species, which has large cotyledons and a short radicle, that 

 of the Mangosteen, grown in the Straits of Malacca, or of 

 any other Garcinia or Xant/iochymus. In the latter genera 

 the embryo consists of an enormous radicle {tigellum 

 strictly), the cotyledons being obsolete. 



This well-marked tropical Family is represented in India 



