162 XXI. HYPERiciNE^ (oliver). [Fismla. 



the younger lateral ramuli with a ring of rusty hairs at their insertion. Leaves 

 rather coriaceous, oblong-elliptical or elliptical, acute or acuminate ; base 

 slightly narrowed or cuneate at the petiole, glabrous, shining above, 2^^^ in, 

 long, 1 j-2 in. broad ; petiole 2-3 lines. Flowers in rather broad, dichoto- 

 mous, raany-Howered, terminal cymes, 2-3 in. across, on a peduncle of |— 1 

 in. ; pedicels ^-^ in. with the calyx rusty-tomentose. Sepals ecarinate. 

 Stamens about 8 in each phalange. Ovules 6-9 in each cell of the ovary. 

 Fruit not seen. 



liOwer Guinea. Golungo Alto, Angola, Dr. IFehvitsch ! 



Oeder XXII. GUTTIFERiE (by Prof. Oliver). 



Flowers regular, dioecious, polygamous or hermaphrodite. Sepals 2-6, 

 imbricate or in decussate pairs. Petals 2-6, rarely more, usually much im- 

 bricated or contorted. Male fl. : Stamens usually indefinite, hypojfvnous ; 

 filaments free or variously connate, monadelphous or in as many phalanges 

 as petals ; anthers various. Female fl. : Staminodia various. Ovary 1-2- 

 oo-celled ; ovules 1, 2, or indefinite, axile or erect from the base of the ca- 

 vity, rarely parietal (^Allanblackia) ; stigmas as many as cells of the ovary 

 or variously consolidated, sometimes peltate, entire, sessile, subsessile or with 

 more or less elongate style. Fruit usually baccate, indehiscent with a fleshy 

 or pulpy pericarp. Seeds large, exalbuminous ; embryo of a large radicle 

 {tigella) with small or obsolete cotyledons or of tliick conferruminate or free 

 cotyledons and very short inferior radicle. — Trees or shrubs abounding in a 

 yellow or greenish juice. Leaves opposite, coriaceous or submembranous, 

 rarely verticillate, usually exstipulate. Flowers axillary or terminal, solitary 

 fascicled subracemose or panicled, white yellow or red. 



A large and exclusively tropical family, more abundant iu America and Asia than in 

 Africa. Two of the following genera are endemic. 



Ovary 1 -celled with indefinite ovules on 5 parietal placentas ... 1. Allanblackia. 

 Ovary with 2 or more cells. 



Ovules 3 or more in each cell. Ovary 5 -celled. 



Sepals 3, much, shorter than convolute petals 2. Symphonia. 



Sepals 5, inner larger, nearly equalling the petals 3. Pentadesma. 



Ovules solitary. 



Sepals 4, iu decussate pairs 4, Garcinia. 



Sepals 5 5. Xanthochymus. 



Ovules 2 in each cell. Calyx closed before flowering, at length 



bipartite 6. Ochrocarpus. 



1. ALLANBLACKIA, Oliv. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PL i. 980. 



Flowers unisexual. Sepals 5, broadly imbricating, the outer successively 

 smaller. Petals 5, obovate-cuneate. Male fl. : Stamens 5-adelphous, pha- 

 langes cuneate-spathulate, opposite to the petals, polyandrous ; anthers ses- 

 sile or subsessile, broadly elliptical or rotundate, 2-celled, dehiscing longitu- 

 dinally, unappendaged. Central disk (rudiment of ovary) deeply 5-lobed ; 

 lobes alternate with the phalanges, deeply tuberculate-corrugate on the upper 

 face. Female fl. : Rudimentary phalanges very short and thick. Ovary 

 conical, thick, unilocular, with 5 parietal placentas ; stigma sessile or sub- 



