xxin. GUTTIFER^:. (T. Anderson.) 259 



as the cells free or connate, sometimes peltate ; ovules 1-2 or oo , axile or 

 erect from the base of the cell. Fruit usually baccate arid indehiscent. 

 /Seeds large, albumen ; embryo consisting of a large radicle (tigellus) with 

 small or obsolete cotyledons, or of thick free or consolidated cotyledons with 

 a very short inferior radicle. A large tropical family, common in Asia and 

 America, rare in Africa, of 24 genera and 250 species. 



MAMMEA AMERICANA, Linn., the Mammee apple of the West Indies is occasionally 

 cultivated in Indian gardens ; it belongs to the tribe C'alophyllece, and is distinguished 

 by its valvately 2 -partite calyx which is quite entire in the bud. 



The following account of the British Indian Guttiferce was drawn up by Dr. Thos. 

 Anderson, late Superintendent of the Calcutta Botanic Garden, shortly before his death 

 in 1870. .For the reduction of Xanthochymus to Garcinia I am answerable, as also for 

 several new species from Maingay's Malacca collections and other sources, and for the 

 reference to Deddome's and Lanessan's works all such additions are either enclosed 

 between [ ] or signed with my initials. J. 2). Hooker. 



TRIBE I. Garcinieee. Ovary-cells 1-ovuled ; stigma sessile or subsessile, 

 peltate, entire or with radiating lobes. Berry indehiscent. Embryo of a 

 solid tigellus with minute cotyledons or 0.- 



Calyx of 4 or 5 sepals 1. GARCINIA. 



Calyx closed in bud, bursting into 2 valves 2. OCHROCARPUS. 



TRIBE II. Calophylleee. Ovary with 1, 2 or 4 erect ovules ; style slender 

 (rarely styles 2), stigma peltate or 4-fid or acute. Fruit fleshy, rarely dehis- 

 cent. Embryo of two fleshy free or consolidated cotyledons, with a small 

 radicle. 



Ovary 1-celled, 1-ovuled; style 1, stigma peltate ' 3. CALOPHYLLUM. 



Ovary 1-celled, 4-ovuled; style 1, stigma 4-fid 4. KAYEA. 



Ovary 2-celled, 4-ovuled ; style 1, stigma peltate 5. MESUA. 



Ovary 2-celled, 4-ovuled; styles 2, stigmas acute 6. PCECILONEUKON. 



1. GARCINIA, Linn. 



(Including XANTHOCHYMUS, Roxb.} 



Trees, usually with yellow juice. Leaves evergreen, coriaceous, very 

 rarely stipulate. Flowers solitary fascicled or panicled, axillary or terminal, 

 polygamous. /Sepals 4-5, decussate. Petals 4-5, imbricate. MALE fl. : 

 Stamens oo, free or collected into a ring or an entire globose or conical 

 4-5-lobed mass, usually surrounding a rudimentary ovary ; anthers sessile or 

 on short thick filaments, 2- rarely 4-celled, adnate or peltate, dehiscing by 

 slits or pores or circumsciss. FEMALE or HERMAPHRODITE fl. : Staminodes 8-x , 

 free or connate. Ovary 2-1 2-celled ; stigma sessile or subsessile, peltate, 

 entire or lobed, smooth or tubercled ; ovules solitary in each cell, attached 

 to the inner angle of the cell. Berry with a coriaceous rind. /Seeds with a 

 pulpy aril. DISTRIB. Tropical Asia, Africa, and Polynesia ; species about 50. 



[Kurz (Jourti. As. Soc. Bengal, xxxvii. 64) rightly states that Xanthochymus can- 

 not be kept distinct from Garcinia, for that both 4- and 5-merous flowers occur in 

 X. pictorius, /. D. If.] 



SUBGENUS I. Garcinia proper. Sepals and Petals 4 each. 



Series A. Stigma divided into rays, or deeply 4-lobed (unknown in 

 G. bancana}. 



* Stamens of male flowers in 4 masses or in a 4-lobed mass surrounding 

 the rudimentary ovary; anthers oblong, dehiscing vertically. 



