SECT. II 



PHANEROGAMIA 



595 



China. The young leaves and tips of the shoots yield tea after heing fermented 

 and dried. The tea-plant is cultivated on an extensive scale in China, Japan, and 

 many tropical colonies. Caf- 

 feine is obtained from Thea 



chincnsis. Thea jajwn.ica, the // \/ 



Camellia, is a favourite orna- 

 mental shrub. 



Family 4. Guttiferae. — Herbs, 

 shrubs, or trees with opposite, 

 simple, entire leaves. Flowers 

 sometimes diclinous. Stamens 

 in bundles. Schizogenous inter- 

 cellular spaces containing secre- 

 tions in all parts of the plant. 

 In Britain Hy'pcricum, with a 

 number of species ; stamens in 

 three or five bundles (Fig. 593). 

 Oil glands apparent as trans- 



Fia. 591.— Floral diagram 

 of Viola. 



Fig. 502. — Thra chinensis. Flowering shoot (§ nat. 

 size) ; fruit and seed. 



lucent spots in the leaf-blade. Garcinia Mangostana, the Mangosteen, is one of 

 the most esteemed fruit-trees of the Asiatic tropics. 



Official.— Garcinia Hanhuryi is a tree of Farther India, with thick leathery 

 leaves and diclinous flowers. 

 The male flowers have numerous 

 stamens seated on a short globular 

 receptacle ; the female flowers 

 have an ovary composed of three 

 to several carpels surmounted by 

 a broadly peltate stigma. The 

 red contents of the secretory 

 organs, which exudes on wound- 

 ing the plant, provides when 

 dried, cambogia. Gamboge. 



Family 5. Dipterocarpaceae. 

 — Inhabitants of tropical Asia. 

 Contain secretory reservoirs. 

 Characterised by the great enlargement of some or all the sepals after fertilisation. 

 Dryohalanops Camphwa, yields Borneo camphor. Dammar (•*") is obtained from 

 Shorea Wiesneri. 



Fig. 593. — Hi/pericum tetra^itentm. a, Flower, somewhat 

 magnilied; h, fruit; p, tlie dried, persistent petals. 

 (X 2.) 



