26 XX. HTPERICIXE,E. 



1. HYPERICUM, Linn. 



Calyx 5-parted ; sepals equal, or 2 outer largest. Petals 5. 

 Stamens many, in 3-5 parcels. Ovary sessile, 1- or imper- 

 fectly S-S-cclled. Capsule commonly splitting. — Fl. Cap. i. 

 p. li7. 



A cosmopolitan genus, much more numerous in the nortliern hemisphere. 

 Tliere are 2 South African species, small herbs, with opposite, sessile, dotted 

 leaves, and yellow cymose flowers. A third species (//. humifusum), proba- 

 bly of European origin, occurs among Drege's Cape plants ; no habitat 

 giyen. 



Oeder XXI. GUTTIFER^. 



Plowers regular, commonly dioecious or polygamous. Sepals 

 2-6, rarely more, very strongly imbricate, or decussate in pairs. 

 Petals as many as sepals, hypogynous, strongly imbricate or 

 twisted. — Male : Stamens mostly many, hypogynous ; fila- 

 ments mostly short and thick, free or variously connate ; an- 

 thers thick, mostly opening outwards. Ovary rudimentary or 

 more or less formed. — Female : Staminodia surrounding ovary, 

 mostly definite or fewer than in the male. Ovary sessile on a 

 flat or fleshy torus, 2- or many-celled ; stigmas as many as 

 the ovarian cells, sessile or subsessile, radiating or connate in 

 a peltate disk, rarely on a long style ; ovules 1 or many axile. 

 Fruit mostly fleshy, or with a leathery coat, pulpy within, 

 rarely dehiscent. Seeds thick, without albumen. — Mostly 

 tropical trees and shrubs, with resinous juice, and opposite, 

 quite entire, simple, exstipulate leaves. 



1. GARCINIA, Linn. 



Flowers polygamous. Sepals 4, decussate. Petals 4, im- 

 bricate. — Male : Stamens many, free or connate in an entire 

 or 4-lobed mass, or tetradelphous ; anthers sessile or on fila- 

 ments, erect, 2-celled, opening by slits or pores, rarely 4- 

 celled. — Female and hermaphrodite : Staminodia 8 or many, 

 few or variously combined. Ovary 2-12-celled ; stigma 

 broadly peltate, entire or variously lobed ; ovules solitary, 

 erect. Berry coated. Seeds enclosed in pulp. 



Tropical trees, with yellow juice; some of them yield the gamboges of 

 commerce. Leaves leathei*y. Flowers terminal or axillary. — A species 

 10-12 feet high, with cream-coloured flowers, and beautiful dark green, 

 glossy, acute leaves, which (if new) may be called G. Gerrardi, has recently 

 been found in the Umvote district, Natal, by Mr. Gerrard (n. 1181). 



