STALAGMITIS. 



227. Stalagmitis ovalifolia Brown and Graham in Comp. to 

 B. M. ii. 197. col. 2. Xanthochymus ovalifolius Roxb. fl. 

 ind. ii. 632. W. and A. 102. Southern provinces of India; 

 Ceylon. Wight, 



Leaves oval, shining. Flowers lateral, fascicled, male and herma- 

 phrodite mixed. Anthers 6-8 to each bundle. Ovary 3-celled. Fruit 

 oval, 1-3-seeded. Dr. Wight persists in the opinion that this yields 

 one kind of true Gamboge in Ceylon. See Sot. Mag. comp. vol. ii. 



MAMMEA. 



Sepals 2, deciduous, equal. Petals 4-6, coriaceous, some- 

 what equal, deciduous. Stamens distinct or slightly united at 

 the base, indefinite, deciduous ; filaments short ; anthers adnate, 

 2-celled, opening longitudinally. Ovary 4-celled ; ovule solitary, 

 erect. Style short; stigma 4-lobed, with emarginate lobes. 

 Fruit pointed by the remains of the style, with a hard putamen 

 and fleshy rind, 4- or by abortion 2-3-celled. Seeds large, thick. 

 Trees having leaves containing pellucid dots. Flowers usu- 

 ally solitary. 



228. M. americana Linn. sp. pi. 731. DC. prodr. i. 561. 

 Cambessed. mem. p. 56. Sloane ii. 123. t. 217. f. 3. West 

 India Islands. (Mammee Eng. Abricot-sauvage Fr.) 



A tall tree. Leaves oval or obovate, entire, blunt, shining, leathery, 

 opposite, short-stalked, 5-8 inches long. Flowers solitary, white, sweet, 

 1| inch in diameter. Fruit roundish, 3-7 inches in diameter; it is co- 

 vered with a double rind, the outer leathery, 1 line thick, tough, brown- 

 ish yellow, scored crosswise ; the inner thin, yellow, adhering firmly to 

 the flesh which is firm, bright yellow, with a pleasant singular taste and a 

 sweet aromatic smell. Skin and seeds very bitter and resinous. Bark 

 abounds in a strong resinous gum, used by negroes for extracting 

 chigoes from their feet. Melted down with a little lime juice and 

 dropped into sores it is effectual in destroying maggots at the first 

 dressing. A bath of the bark hardens the soles of the feet like Mangrove 

 bark. Lunan. 



CALOPHYLLUM. 



Flowers often by abortion polygamous. Sepals 2-4, petaloid, 

 deciduous. Petals 2-4, alternating with the sepals. Stamina 

 usually numerous, or sometimes definite, more or less distinctly 

 4-adelphous at the base or distinct : filaments short : anthers 

 dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary ovate, 1 -celled : ovule solitary, 

 attached to the bottom of the cell. Style longish, flexuose. 

 Stigma large, peltate, irregularly lobed. Fruit drupaceous, 

 1-celled, 1-seeded. Trees with leaves furnished with numerous 

 transverse parallel slender nerves. Flowers disposed in axillary 

 racemes or panicles. W. and A. 

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