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yellow juice most abound. The latter, when concrete, resem- 

 bles gamboge, of which it has the properties. Hypencum 

 Androsjemum and perforatum are old-fashioned vulneranes. 

 In Brazil a species of Hypericum is employed for a gargle 

 in cases of sore throat. 



TYPICAL GENERA. Hypericum, Vismia. 



Hypericum floribundum. 1. An entire flower. 2. A bundle of stamens. 3. A 

 pistil with 3 carpels. 4. A seed laid horizontally and cut through, to show the em- 

 bryo and netted testa. 5. A piece of a leaf with transparent dots. 



32. Clusiacea or Guttifera. Trees or shrubs. Leaves 

 without stipules, opposite, coriaceous. Flowers sometimes 

 polygamous. Sepals 2 to 6, persistent. Petals hypogynous, 

 4 to 10. Stamens numerous, hypogynous. Disk fleshy, occa- 

 sionally 5-lobed. Ovary 1- or many-celled ; ovules solitary, 

 erect, or ascending, or numerous and attached to central pla- 

 centae ; style very short ; stigma peltate or radiate. Seeds 

 frequently nestling in pulp, often with an aril ; albumen none. 



USES. Gamboge is the juice of Hebradendron cambogioides. 

 The delicious Malacca fruit called Mangosteen is the produce 

 of Garcinia mangostana. The resinous oil Tacamahaca flows 

 from the root of Calophyllum Calaba. The general properties 

 of the species are acrid and purgative. They are often objects 

 of great beauty on account of their large flowers and hand- 

 some thick leaves. 



TYPICAL GENERA. Clusia, Garcinia. 



