Oarcinia.'] xxii. guttifer.e (oliver). 105 



Ovary 2-oo-celled ; stigma sessile, lobed, smootli or tuberculnte ; ovules 

 solitary. Fniit baccate. Enibiyo an undivided thick radicle {tigellu).— 

 Glabrous trees, usually with a yellow juice. Leaves coriaceous or subinein- 

 branous, opposite or ternately verticillate. Flowers solitarv, fascicled or 

 subpaniculate, axillary or terminal. 



A considerable genus, confined to the tropics of the Old World, most numerous in Asia. 

 The African species appear to be endemic. 



In all the tropical African species of which I have seen flowers, the sepals of the outer 

 pair are much smaller than those of the inner. It is possible, therefore, that by Messrs. 

 Planchou and Triana, the authors of a recent admirable monograph of the Quttifera, they 

 would be referred to the genus Rheedia, their African R. ^meathmanm, a Sierra Leone 

 plant, being described with 2 minute bracteoles contiguous to the (diphyllous) calyr ; a di- 

 phyllous calyx being a character of that genus. It will be observed that, with the Banie 

 condition as to the calyx, we have in tropical Africa both free stamens and stamens wholly 

 or variously connate in distinct or united phalanges. Rheedia iSmealhmanvi, PI. et Tr. 

 (described from a single leaf, and flowers of which the petals and sexual organs have been 

 destroyed by insects), I include iu Garcinia. 



Filaments free, at least above, in the males. 



Stamens distinct, singly inserted in disk; anthers peltate-affixed. 



Leaves very coriaceous, broadly elliptical obtuse ]. G. Livinystonei. 



Stamens in 4 deeply trifid (tri-(olig-)audrous) phalanges. Leaves 



oval 2. G. ovaiifolia. 



Stamens free or variously connate, inserted in corrugate disk. Leaves 



oblanceolate coriaceous 3. G^. Barleri. 



Stamens iu 4 phalanges. Leaves coriaceous, 4-9 in., oblong-ellip- 

 tical 4. G.poli/antha. 



Filaments connate throughout in four distinct or united phalanges. 



Anthers linear, recurved above, multilocellate 5. G. Mannii. 



Anthers short, radiating around semicircular phalange 6. G. punctata. 



Leaves oval, subacute, with prominent subparallel veins. Female 



flower with short bracteate peduncle or subsessile 7- G". huitlensis. 



1. G. Livingstonei, T. And. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 263. A shrub 

 or bush-like tree, with a trunk sometimes 3 ft. diam. {Dr. Kirk). Leaves 

 very co'riaceous, opposite or ternate, broadly elliptical or obovate-elliptical, 

 apex very obtusely rounded entire or sliglitly emaiginate ; base rounded or 

 broadly cuneate ; lateral veins prominent al)Ove, rather irregular, -^-^ in. 

 apart; 3-3J in. long, H-2^ in. broad, subsessile or on petioles not exceed- 

 ing 1 or 2 lines. Flowers axillary, often from the wood of the previous year 

 or still older branches; pedicels ^-1 in. long, often fascicled on thickened 

 leafless nodes. Two outer sepals minute, orbicular ; two inner broadly ovate- 

 rotundate, equal or unequal, about half as long as, or the inner nearly equal- 

 ling, the 5 white or pale greenish petals. Male 11. : Stamens indermite, dis- 

 tinct, spreading, the rather thick filaments singly inserted in the disk ; 

 anthers small, oblong, peltatcly affixed, 2-cellc(l, dehiscing longitudinally ; 

 rudiment of ovary 0. Hermaphrodite fl. : Stamens about 15 or more, in- 

 serted in the fleshy hypogynous disk. Ovary tisnally 2-celle(l, w ith a sessile 

 2-lobed stigma and solitary ovules. Berry 2-(3)-secde(i, 1 IJ in. diara., 

 with a fleshy juicy pericarp, which is said to be pleasant eating. 



