CLUSIACEM 



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-ees whose organs of vegetation are those of SympJionia and its 

 >eautiful flowers ^ solitary and terminal.^ 



III. GARCINIA SEEIES. 



Garcinia has polygamo-dicecions flowers. In some of them, dis- 

 tinguished under the name of Xanthochymus ^ (fig. 372-375), they 

 are pentamerous, and on their convex receptacle are inserted, from 



Garcinia Xanthochymus. 



Fig. 372 Flower (f). 



Fig. 373. Long. sect, 

 of flower. 



Fig. 374. Androecium Fig. 375. Young 

 and gynaecium. fruit. 



bottom to top, five sepals imbricate in the bud, more or less unequal,* 

 and five alternate imbricate petals.^ In front of each petal is a 

 bundle of stamens in which the male organs are few in number, 

 often, for example, from four to six. The filaments are often united 

 to a considerable extent, after which they become distinct and sup- 

 port each a bilocular introrse anther, dehiscing by two longitudinal 

 clefts, often sterile or even disappearing in the female flowers. With 

 these five staminal bundles alternate an equal number of hypogynous 

 glands or lobes of a disk more or less rugose or plaited, surmounted 

 by a gyneecium, imperfect or nil in the male flowers. In the female 

 or hermaphrodite, it is composed of a free ovary, with five alterni- 

 petalous cells, surmounted by a style discoid dilated stigmatiferous 

 at its extremity, with five obtuse or very prominent and radiating 



^ Large pink. 



2 Like all the types of this series, this will 

 perhaps one day be regarded as simply a section 

 of a single genus. 



» RoxB. PL Coromand. ii. 51, 1. 196 ; iii. t. 270. 

 — Chois. DC. Fi'odr. i. 562 ; Gutt. Ind. 23, 32. 



Endl. Gen. n. 6444.— Pl. et Tri. Ann. Se. Nat. 

 ser. 4, xiv. 303.— B. H. Gen. 175, n. 17.— H. 

 Bn. Payer Fam. Nat. 270. — Stalagmites Murr. 

 Comm. Goett. ix. 173 (part).— DC.Pro^^r. i.562. 



^ The most exterior are the smallest. 



^ Or more rarely contorted. 



