

Garchiia.] guttifer.e. 25 



1. G. multiflora^ Champ, in Kew Journ. Bot. iii. 310 ; Seem. Bot. 

 Her. L 19. A shrub. Leaves shortly stalked, ovate or obovate, 3 to 3| in. 

 long. Flowers mostly (or all ?) hermaphrodite, in a short terminal trichoto- 

 mous corymb, each one shortly pedicellate in the axil of a small bract. Sepals 

 orbicular, 3 lines broad. Petals obovate, twice as long. Stamens forming 4 

 short thick fleshy masses, terminated by very numerous anthers. Ovary 

 square, with a large peltate sessile stigma. 



Common towards the Black Mountain, flowering in the heat of summer, Champio7i, also 

 Wright. Not received from elsewhere. 



2. G. oblongifolia. Champ, in Kew Journ. Bot. iii. 311; Seem. Bot. 

 Her. t. 93. A tree. Leaves shortly stalked, oblong, narrowed at the base, 

 2 J to 3 in. long, the upper ones almost sessile. Flowers terminal, unisexual, 

 the males 3 to 7 together, shortly pedunculate. Sepals 2 lines, petals near 

 5 lines long. Stamens consolidated into a fleshy mass, occupying the centre 

 of the flower. Females solitary, sessile, and rather smaller. 



Common in the Happy Valley woods, Champion, also Wright. Not known from else- 

 where. The foliage is nearly that of the G. Cambogia, from Ceylon, but the male pedicels 

 are much shorter, the anthers more numerous, etc. 



2. CALOPHYLLUM, Linn. 



Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamous. Sepals 2 or 4. Petals 4, rarely 2, 

 or 6 to 8. Stamens numerous, free or united into several bundles at the 

 base. Ovary 1-celled, with a single erect ovule. Style filiform. Stigma pel- 

 tate. Fruit a drupe. — Trees. Leaves elegantly striate, with numerous parallel 

 transverse veins. Flowers in terminal or axillary short racemes, sometimes 

 branching into panicles. 



A tropical genus common to the New and the Old World. 



1. C. membranaceum, Gardn. and Champ, in Kew Journ. Bot. i. 309. 

 A tree, with acutely 4-angled branches. Leaves narroAV, oblong or lanceolate, 

 often 3 or 4 in. long, and seldom an inch wide. Flowers veiy few, in short 

 axillary racemes, scarcely exceeding the petioles, and sometimes solitary. Se- 

 pals 4. Petals larger and much more oblique, apparently varying in number 

 from 4 to 8. Fruit small, ovoid-oblong. — Calophylluvt spectablle, Hook, and 

 Arn. Bot. Beech. 174 ; not of Willd. 



In a ravine of Moimt Victoria, and in the Happy VaUey woods, Champion, also Wright. 

 South China, Beecheg, but not known from elsewhere. 



Order XYL TERNSTECEMIACE^. 



Sepals 5 (rarely 6 or 7), imbricate in the bud. Petals 5 (rarely 6 to 9), 

 hypogynous, often united in a ring or short tube at the base, contorted or other- 

 wise imbricate in the bud. Stamens indefinite (rarely equal in number to the 

 petals and alternate with them), hypogynous, often shortly united at the base 

 with each other, or with the base of the petals. Ovaiy superior, completely 

 or almost completely divided into 3 or more cells, with 2 or more ovules in 

 each. Styles either as many, and free from the base, or more or less united 

 into a single style, sometimes very short, with as many stigmatic lobes as 



