dan-inia.'] GUTTIFEEAE. 71 



celled ; styles distinct ; ovules 4-8 in each cell. Capsule 

 dehiscing by 3 loculicidal valves. Seeds winged. 

 CRATOXYLON POLYANTHUM, Korth. ; F. B. I. i. 257. 

 N. Circars, Anakapalle in Vizagapatam (Barber). 

 A glabrous shrub with fluted sterns. 



Family XXII. GUTTIFERAE. 



Trees or shrubs with yellow or greenish juice. Leaves opposite 

 or, rarely, verticillate, usually coriaceous and exstipulate. Flowers 

 solitary or in axillary or terminal fascicles racemes or panicles, 

 white yellow or red, regular, dioecious polygamous or herma- 

 phrodite. Sepals and petals 4-12, imbricate in 2-3 series. $ . 

 Stamens usually indefinite ; filaments 1-6-adelphous or quite free. 

 ? . Staminodes numerous, free or connate. Ovary 1-2- or many- 

 celled ; style 1 usually short or or rarely styles 2 ; stigmas free 

 or connate, often peltate, as many as the cells ; ovules 1 or 2 or 

 many, axile basal or rarely parietal. Fruit usually indehiscent 

 and baccate, occasionally capsular. Seeds large ; albumen ; 

 embryo with large radicle and small cotyledons or vice 

 versa. 



Ovary of many 1-ovuled cells ; style short or ; cotyledons minute or ; 

 veins of leaves often close, but never all equal and parallel : 



Calyx of 4-5 sepals 1. Garcinia. 



Calyx bursting into 2 valves 2. Ochrocarpus. 



Ovary 1-celled 1-ovuled or 2-celled 4-ovuled ; styles 1 or 2, slender ; 

 cotyledons large ; veins of leaves very close and parallel : 



Style 1 ; stigma peltate : 



Flowers racemose ; ovary 1-celled, 1-ovuled 3. Calophyllum. 



Flowers solitary ; ovary 2-celled, 4-ovuled 4. Mesua. 



Styles 2 ; stigmas acute ; ovary 2-celled, 4-ovuled... 5. Poeciloneuron. 



1. Garcinia, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs, often with yellow juice. Leaves coriaceous, 

 sometimes only thinly so ; stipules usually 0. Flowers solitary 

 fascicled umbelled or panicled, polygamous or dioecious. Sepals 

 4-5. Petals 4-5, imbricate, j . Stamens numerous, free or 

 combined into a ring or an entire or 4-5-lobed mass, often sur- 

 rounding a rudimentary ovary ; filaments short and thick or ; 2- 

 or 4-celled anthers straight horseshoe- shaped or annular, dehis- 



