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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



imbricate-decussate sepals, exserted stamens, with small and nearly- 

 globular anthers. The ovary has a single cell, with four ovules, 

 rarely more, inserted quite at the base, and it is surmounted by a 

 long subulate style, divided at the summit into four small pointed 

 lobes. The fruit is indehiscent. Seven or eight species ^ are known. 

 Pceciloneuron,^ primarily referred to the family of the Ternstroemi- 

 acecB, has nearly the flowers of Mesua^ with two biovulate cells in 

 the ovary, two subulate styles, with stigmatiferous punctiform 

 extremity, and a capsular septicidal (?) and monospermous fruit. 

 Two species ^ are distinguished, from the Indian peninsula. 



Calophyllum Calahz. 



Fig. 381. Flower (f). 



Fig. 382. Long. sect, of flower (?). 



Calophylhin* (fig. 381-384), of which a separate group has been 

 made, is exceptional in this series by a single character ; the gynse- 

 cium is reduced to one carpel, and the ovary, consequently, has but 

 one cell with a single anatropous, almost basilar ovule, ordinarily 

 ascending,^ and the style is terminated by a more or less oblique 

 stigmatiferous head. The fruit is a drupe the seed of which encloses 



1 T-ELW'.Emtm.Pl.Zeyl. 50.—'EL.B's.Adamonia, 

 xl 368. 



2 See vol. iv. p. 269. This genus, unknown 

 to us, had previously been referred doubtfully 

 to the Ternstrcemiacecs. 



3 Bedd. FL Sylv. t. 3, 93.— T. Dysr Eook. f. 

 Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 278. 



4 L. Gen. n. 658.— J. Gen. 258; Ann. Mm. xx. 

 466.— Lamk. Did. 1. 552 ; Suppl. ii. 17 ; III. t. 

 459._G^RTN. Fruct. i. 201, t. 43, fig. 1.— DC. 

 Frodr. i. 562. — Cambess. Mim. Mus. xvi. 427, 

 t. 17^ fig. C— Spach, Suit a Bnffon, v. 330.— 

 Endl. Gen. n. 5448.— Payer, Fam. Nat. 40.— 

 B. H. Gen. 175, n. 20.— Pl. et Tri. Ann. So. Nat. 



ser. 4, XV. 2i7. —Calaba Plum. Gen. 39, t. 18.— 

 Adans. Fam. des Pl. ii. 446. — Inophyllnm Burm. 

 Thes. Zeijl. 130. — EalophyllodendronY aijAj. Mem. 

 Acad. Far. [1722] 207. — Balsamaria Lour. Fl. 

 Cochinch. (ed. 1790) ^Q^.^Apoterium Bh. Bijdr. 

 218. — Lamprophyllum Miers, Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 xxi. 249, t. 26, fig. 13 (part). 



^ Owing to the slight variations presented 

 by the point of insertion and to its anatropy 

 more or less complete, this o^^lle may here and 

 there direct its micropyle towards the side or 

 even toM^ards the top of the cell ; as we have 

 seen in certain fresh flowers of the cultivated 

 plunt. 



