302 140- CxUTTIFERAE 



Africa. Tliey \iclcl timber, dyes, and edible fruits. (Calysaccion 

 Wight) Ochrocarpus 1 houars 



Ovarv with one-ovuled cells. Seeds with an aril lo 



IÜ. Sepals 2. Petals 4 — 7. Filaments free. — Species 4. Madagascar. 

 (Including Tsimalimia Jum. et Perrier) Rheedia L. 



Sepals 4 — 5, rarely 2, but then filaments united in several bundles. 

 Petals 4 — 5. — Species 60. Tropical and South Africa. Some species 

 yield timber, gum-resin (gambodge), dyes, edible fruits, fat-containing 

 seeds, and \-arious medicaments, among which are the false cola-nuts. 

 (Including XaiiiliocJiyrnns Roxb.) Garcinia L. 



11. 0\-arv 5-celled, with several or many ovules in each cell. Style 5-cleft. 



Sepals 5. Petals 5. Stamens united in 5 bundles or in a tube. 

 Fruit a berry. Embryo undivided. [Subfamily MORONOBOIDEAE.] 12 

 Ovar\- I — 4-celled with i — 2 ovules in each cell, surmounted by a simple 

 style with an entire or 2 — 4-parted stigma, rarely {Hypericum) ovary 

 5-celled and style or stigma 5-cleft, but then fruit a capsule and embryo 

 with distinct cotyledons I j 



12. Stamens in 5 bundles consisting of numerous stamens each. Sepals 



nearly equalling the petals. — Species 3. W'est Africa. The fruits of 

 the tallow-tree [P. butyracea Sabine) yield a fat. . Pentadesma Sabine 

 Stamens united in a tube, the lobes of which bear 3 — 4 anthers each. 

 Sepals much smaller than the petals. Disc cupular. — Species 15. 

 Madagascar and West Africa. 5. globulifera L. f. yields timber and a 

 resin used industrially and medicinally ; other species afford edible 

 fruits, oily seeds, food for silkworms, and medicaments. (Including 

 Chrysopia Thouars) Symphonia L. f. 



13. Sepals 2 — 4. Stamens free or shortly united at the base. Ovary i — 4- 



celled with i — 2 ovules in each cell. Fruit a drupe. Embryo with a 

 very short radicle and thick-lieshy cotyledons. [Subfamily CALOPHYL- 



LOIDEAE.j 14 



Sepals 5 15 



14. Ovary i-celled, witli a single erect ovule. Fleshy mesocarp thin. Flowers 



in racemes or panicles. — Species 6. Madagascar and East Africa. 

 They yield timber, resin, oil, fish-poison, and medicaments. 



Calophyllum L. 

 Ovary 2 — 4-celled, with altogether 4 ovules. Flowers solitary or in clusters. 

 — Species 2, one growing wild in West Africa, the other {M. amencana 

 L.) cultix'ated in the tropics and naturalized on the Cape Verde Islands. 

 The latter s])ecies yields timber, resin, medicaments, and edible fruits 

 (mammee-apples), which are also used for preparing drinks. Mammea L. 



15. Ovary i-celled, with a single pendulous ovule. Filaments united at the 



base in 5 bundles, further upwards in a tube. Fruit a drupe 



Embryo with a very short radicle and thick cotyledons. — Species i. 



West Africa. [Subfamily ENDODESMIOIDEAE.] Endodesmia Benth. 



Ovary 2 — 5-celled 16 



