148 Materialfi for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



as many aa tlie cells, free or connate, Bometimes peltate; ovules 1-2 or oo, 

 axile, or erect from the hase of the cell. Fruit usually baccate and in- 

 dehiscent. Seeds large, albumen 0; embryo consisting of a large radicle 

 (tigellus) with small or obsolete cotyledons, or of thick free or con- 

 solidated cotyledons with a very short inferior radicle. A large tropical 

 family, common in Asia and America, rare in Africa, of 24 genera and 

 320 species. 



Tribe I. Garcinex. Cells of ovary 1-ovuled ; stig- 

 ma sessile, or sub-sessile, peltate, entire or with 

 radiating lobes. Fruit baccate, indehiscent ; em- 

 bryo with cotyledons minute or undistinguish- 

 nble. 



Calyx of 4 or 5 sepals ... ... 1. Garcinia. 



Tribe IT. Galophylleae. Ovary with 1 to 4 erect 

 ovules; style 1, slender ; stigma peltate, 4-fid. 

 Fruit fleshy, usually indehiscent. Embi'yo with 

 2 distinct cotyledons. 

 Ovary l-celled. 



Ovules solitary, style 1, stigma peltate ... 2. Calophylhnn. 

 Ovules 4; style 1, 4-fid. with a stigma 



above each segment ... ... 3. Kayea. 



Ovary 2-celled, 4-ovuled. 



Style 1, stigma peltate ... ... 4. Mesua. 



1. Garcinia, Linn. 



Trees, usually with yellow juice. Leaves evergreen, coriaceous, very 

 rarely stipulate. Flowers solitary, fascicled, or panicled ; axillary or 

 terminal ; polygamous. Sepals 4-5, decussate. Petals 4-5, imbricate. 

 Male fl. ; Stamens oo, free, or collected into a ring, or an entire globose 

 or conical 4-5-lobed mass, often surrounding a rudimentary ovary ; 

 anthers sessile, or on short thick filaments, 2-rarely 4-celled, adnate or 

 peltate, dehiscing by slits or pores, or circumsciss. Female or herma- 

 phrodite fl. ; Staminodes 8-oo , free or connate. Ovary 2-12-celled ; 

 stigma sessile or sub-sessile, peltate, entire or lobed, smooth or tubcr- 

 cled ; ovules solitary in each cell, attached to the inner angle of the cell. 

 Berry with a coi'iaceous rind. Seeds with a pulpy aril. Distrib. Tropi- 

 cal Asia, Africa, and Polynesia; species about ]00. 



Sub-genus I. Garcinia proper. Sepals 4, decussate ; petals 4, 

 imbricate. 

 Sect. 1. Stamens of mnle flower occupying both 



sides of 4 pedicolled fleshy processes ; anthers 



sessile, 2-celled, the cells more or less oiblcular 



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