Garcinia.] 



XVIII. GUTTIFEILE. 



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monadelphous or in as many bundles as there are petals, a rudi- 

 mentary pistil or o. Female flowers, staminodes various. Ovary 

 I- to 2- or many-celled; style slender or none. Stigmas as many 

 as ovary-cells, free or connate. Ovules i to 2 or many, axile, or 

 erect from cell-base. Fruit baccate, drupaceous, or rarely dehiscent. 

 Seeds large exalbuminous. Tropics of Asia, America and Africa, 

 about 320 species. {King, Jourii. As. Soc. Beng. Ixix. 147.) 



Flowers unisexual on different trees ; fruit baccate ; 



stigmas sessile . . . . . .1. Garcinia 



Flowers bisexual. 



Calyx dividing into 2 lobes 2. Ochrocarpus 



Calyx 4- to 5-lobed. 



Ovary i -celled; ovule i ; flowers white, numerous; 



stigma peltate 3. Calophyllum 



Ovary I -celled; ovules 4 ; flowers few; stigma 4-fid 4. Kayea 

 Ovary 2-celled ; ovules 4 ; flowers very large ; 



stigma peltate 5- Mesua 



1. GARCINIA, L. 



Tree of medium or large size, rarely shrubs, with abundance 

 of yellow resinous latex. Leaves opposite, coriaceous. Flowers 

 soUtary or fascicled, axillary or terminal, unisexual. Sepals 4 

 to 5 decussate. Petals 4 or 5 decussate. Male flowers, stamens 

 indefinite in fascicles or forming a globose or conic mass, rarely 

 free. Pistillodes present or not ; anthers sessile or on short fila- 

 ments 2- to 4-celled dehiscing by shts or pores or circumsciss. 

 Females, staminodes free or connate. Ovary 2- to 12-celled. Stigma 

 sessile or sub-sessile peltate, entire or lobed. Ovules sohtary in 

 each cell attached to the inner angle. Berry with a fleshy or 

 coriaceous rind. Seeds with a pulpy aril. Species about 100, 

 tropical Asia, Africa and Polynesia. 



i. Eu-Garcinia. Sepals and petals 4. 



{a) Stamens in males on both sides of 4 fleshy 

 processes ; anthers usually 2-celled (4- 

 celled in G. ciispidata). 

 Flowers very small ; anthers 2-celled. 



Leaves 2 to 3 in. long by -9 to i in. wide; 

 flowers panicled . . . . • 



Leaves 2 to 3 in. by 1-75; flowers densely 

 crowded ...... 



Flowers twice as large ..... 



Leaves lanceolate ; flowers in cymes of 3 

 moderately large . . . . • 



Leaves elliptic blunt, 4 by 3 in.; flowers 

 •25 in. long ....•• 



Anthers 4-celled. Habit of G. rostrata 

 (b) Stamens in male in a 4-lobed mass ; anthers 

 2-celled ; leaves and flowers large stiff 

 coriaceous; fruit large; pericarp crus- 

 taceous. 

 Leaves broad, ovate ; nerves conspicuous 



(i) G. eugenisefolia 



(2) G. rostrata 



(3) G. merguensis 



(4) G. lanceolata 



(5) G. diversifolia 



(6) G. cuspidata 



(7) G. Hombroniana 



