CL USIA CEJiJ. 



407 



Garcinia Morella. 



Fig. 378. Stamens. 



cell, an ovule like that of XanthochynmSj and is surmounted by a 



style, dilated to a head of very variable form, with lobes more or less 



salient and distinct.^ Often the entire style exists in the centre of 



the male flowers, but without ovary ; in other 



cases the gynsecium disappears entirely. The 



fruit is analogous to that of Xafothochymus ; it 



is a berry, often corticate, furnished at the 



base with the calyx and at the summit with 



the persistent style. The seeds, with pulpy 



coat, enclose an embryo undivided or with 



macropod radicle, surmounted by two very 



small cotyledons.- 



Under the name of Discostigma,^ have been distinguished generi- 

 cally some species of Garcinia with small flowers in false umbels in 

 the axils of the leaves and anthers opening by short clefts resembling 

 pores ; and under the name of Terpnophyllum,'^ some Discostigma of 

 Ceylon whose stamens are slightly adherent with the base of the sepals. 



Thus understood,^ the genus Garcinia is composed of about forty 

 species^ belonging to all the tropical regions of the old world. 

 They are trees or shrubs with a yellow juice, thick opposite coria- 

 ceous penninerved leaves, nearly always entire, without stipules. 

 The flowers are terminal or axillary, solitary, or in triflorous or 

 more or less ramified cymes resembling compound clusters or umbels. 



the stamens are inserted on a quadrilateral re- 

 ceptacular projection. (See H. Bn. Adansonia 

 xi. 379.) 



1 There are some sections founded on the 

 character of the stigma which is peltate in Fel' 

 tostigma and Trachycarpus, with tubercular 

 lobes in Comarostigma. 



" In germination, the gemmule is elongate, 

 and its appendages separate from each other. 

 Adventitious roots, variable in number, may- 

 then be developed at the base, and these alone 

 will soun nourish the young plant. At the 

 opposite extremity of the embryo there is also 

 (as in certain Monocotyledons) a thin root soon 

 arrested in its development. Roxburgh, then 

 Plaxchon et Triana {Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 4, xvi. 

 302), consider it an original root of transitory 

 existence. 



3 Hassk. Cat. Sort. Bogor. 212. — Endl. Gen. 

 Suppl. iii. 95. — Chois. Mhn. Soc.Gen. (1860) xv. 

 435. — Pl. et Tri. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 4, xiv. 361. 



" Thw. Hook. Kew Journ. 70, t. 2 C— Pl. et 



Tri. loc. cit. 363. 



° Sect. 12: 1. Hthradendron (Grah.) ; 2. Man- 

 gostana (G^rtn.) ; 3. Peltostigma (Pl. et Tri.) ; 

 4. Xanthbchytmis \ 5. Eheediopsis (an African 

 species mentioned above) ; 6. Clusianthemum 

 (ViEiLL.) ; 7. {?) Ithinostigma (MiQ.) ; 8. Cam- 

 bogia (L.) ; 9. Comarostigma (Pl. et T^ii.) ; 10. 

 Trachycar2ms (Pl. et Tri. loc. cit. 348) ; 11. Bis- 

 costigma (Hassk.) ; 12. Terpnophyllum (Thw.). 



6 Wight, Icon. t. 44, 102-105, 112-115, 116, 

 120, 121, 192, 960, 960(2); ///. t. 44.— Wall. 

 Pl. As. Rar. ii. t. 258.— Eoxb. Pl. Corom. iii. t. 

 298.— Thw. Enum. Pl. Zeyl. 48, 49 ; Suppl. 493 

 [Terpnophyllum, Xanthochymus). — Seem. Voy. 

 Ser. Pot. t. 79, 93.— Mia. PL Ind.-Bat. i. p. i. 

 506 ; Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. i. 208.— Oliv. Fl. 

 Trop. Afr. i. 164, 168 {Xanthochymus).— KvviZy 

 Journ. As. Soc. xxxvii. 64.— Anderson, Hook. 

 Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 259.— Walp. Pep. i. 394, 395 

 {Xanthochymus), 811; Ann. ii. 190; iv. 365, 

 366 {Discostigma) ; vii. 350, 353 {Discostigma), 

 354 {Terpnophyllum). 



