GENERA. 



I. CLUSIiE. 



1. Clusia L. — Flowers polygamo-dioecious ; receptacle shortly 

 convex. Sepals 4-6, decussately imbricate. Petals 4-6 or 7-10, 

 imbricate or contorted-imbricate. Stamens oo (in female flower 4-oo , 

 free or variously connate, oftener very short thick), or all united in 

 a globose or cylindrical mass; anthers imbedded; the interior or 

 exterior sometimes concrete sterile ; anthers of interior or exterior 

 free ; or all anthers free ; filaments concrete in mass or shortly free ; 

 anthers 2-8-locular, variously dehiscent. Germen (in male flower 

 variously evolved, exserted or enclosed among stamens, sometimes 0) 

 sessile, 4-10-locular ; style short or subnil, presently dilated into 

 thick radiating distinct or subconnate or connivent stigmas. Ovules 

 in complete or incomplete cells oo , subhorizontal or slightly oblique 

 ascending. Fruit thick fleshy or coriaceous, finally septicidally 

 dehiscent. Yalves solute from angular-alate columella. Seeds oo , 

 rarely few, oftener small or moderate-sized, variously arillate ; coty- 

 ledons of thick fleshy albuminous embryo minute squamiform to 

 apex; radicle thick macropod. Trees or shrubs, sometimes epiphytal, 

 rarely climbing, glabrous, abounding in a resinous juice; leaves 

 opposite exstipulate, coriaceous, entire, subenervate, or delicately 

 penninerved ; midrib oftener strong somewhat prominent ; flowers at 

 ends of twigs solitary or few cymose, large or rather so, sometimes 

 smaller in compound cymose racemes ; bracts under flower 2, or more 

 rarely oo , decussate. (Trop. and suhtroj). America.) — See p. 395. 



2. Quapoya Aubl. — Flowers nearly of Clusia, smaller, dioecious ; 

 sepals 4, decussate or 5, imbricate. Petals 4, decussate or rarely 

 {Balboa) variously imbricate, sometimes 5, imbricate. Stamens 4, 



