CLUSIACEM. 



411 



an embryo similar in construction to that of Mammeaj with a very 

 short inferior radicle. The imbricate sepals number from two to 

 four, and the petals (which may be wanting ?) vary from two to ten. ^ 

 About forty species ^ of Oalophyllum are admitted. They are trees 



Calophylhim Calaha. 



Fig. 383. Fruit. 



Fig. 384. Long. sect, of fruit. 



with smooth opposite coriaceous leaves with numerous fine close 

 parallel penniform secondary nervures, and flowers in clusters of 

 terminal or axillary and more or less ramified cymes. They inhabit 

 all the tropical regions of America, Asia, Oceania, and Africa. 



V. QUIINA SERIES. 



The flowers of Quiina^ (fig. 385) are polygamous, with a small 

 convex receptacle bearing at first four decussate or five imbricate 

 sepals. The petals, alternate and equal in number, or rising to 

 seven or eight, are free or slightly united at the base and imbricate 

 in the bud. The stamens are numerous in the male flowers, where 

 they consist of a slender filament and a short subglobose anther of 

 two* cells dehiscing internally or near the margin by longitudinal 



^ On these characters are founded the sections 

 admitted in this genus particularly by Thwaites. 



2 RuMPH. Herb. Amboin, ii. t. 71, 72 {Biiitan- 

 gor). — J ACQ. Amer. t. 165. — A. S.-H. Fl. Bras. 

 Mer. i. 320, t. 57. — Wight and Akn. Prodr. i. 

 102.— Wight, Hook. Bot. Misc. Suppl. t. 17; 

 Icon. t. 106-108, 110, 111.— Thw. Etnm. PL 

 Zeyl. 51, 407.— Griseb. Fl. Brit. W.-Ind. 108.— 

 MiQ. FL Ind.-Bat. i. p. ii. 509 ; Suppl. 193, 497. 



—Hook. f. FL Brit. Lid. i. 271.— Benth. FL 

 Austral i. 183.— Walp. Rep. i. 396; ii. 811; 

 Ann. i. 129; ii. 191 ; iv. 366 ; A-ii. 356. 



2 ArBL. Guian. Suppl. 19, t. 379.— Pom. Diet. 

 vi. 34 {Quhia). — TuL. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, xi. 

 156.— B. H. Gen. 176, 981, n. 24.— Pl. et Tri. 

 Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 4, xv. 309. — Guiina Crueg. 

 Linncea, xx. 115. 



^ Sometimes only one. 



