426 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



more or less elongate, at apex stigmatose peltate, entire or radiately 

 lobed, torulose or depressed or tuberculate (in male flower sometimes 

 evolved with effete germen). Ovules in cells (complete or incomplete) 

 solitary ascending ; micropyle extrorsely inferior. Pruit indehiscent, 

 baccate, often corticate. Seeds oo , or few ; external coat pulpy 

 arilliform ; radicle of thick exalburainous embryo macropod ; coty- 

 ledons very small or 0. — Trees oftener glabrous, generally with yellow 

 juice ; leaves opposite, oftener entire coriaceous ; flowers axillary or 

 terminal cymose or in a compound cymiferous raceme, more rarely 

 solitary. (Troj:?. ivest. Africa, Malacca, trop. Asia and Oceania.) — 

 See p. 405. 



15 ? Rheedia L.^ — Flowers nearly of Garcinia, 4-merous; sepals 

 2, free or more or less connate, imbricate or valvate. Petals 4, de- 

 cussate. Stamens oo ; anthers longitudinally rimose. Germen 3-5- 

 locular; ovules solitary, etc., of Garcinia, Berry corticate, 1-5- 

 spermous ; seed and embryo of Garcinia. — Trees with yellow juice ; 

 leaves and inflorescence of Garcinia. ( Trop. America, Madagascar, 

 trop. luest. Africa.'^) 



16 ? Ochrocarpus Dup.-Th.^ — Flowers nearly of Garcinia ; calyx 

 valvate, closed before anthesis and finally 2-valvately fissus. Stamens 

 00 , free or 4-8-adelphous ; anthers elongate or short. Germen 2-6- 

 locular, etc., of Garcinia', cells 1, 2 -ovulate ; ovules ascending. 

 Fruit baccate, often 1-spermous ; embryo undivided. — Trees ; leaves 

 opposite or verticillate (of Garcinia) ; flowers lateral or axillary 

 cymose. (Trop. Asia and Oceania, Malacca, trop, west. Africa.'^) 



lY. MAMMEE.^. 



17. Mammea Pl. — Flowers polj^gamo-dicecious ; calyx gamo- 

 phyllus, valvate, closed before anthesis, finally divided into 2 sepals. 

 Petals 4-6, imbricate or not contiguous. Stamens oo , free or connate 

 at base, erect ; filaments free slender ; anthers oblong erect ; cells 



1 Gm. n. 641.— Pl. et Tia. Ann. Sc. Nat. eer. Nat. ser. 4, xiv. 364.— B. H. Gen. 175, 980, n. 

 4, xiv. 306.— B. H. Gen. 175, n. IS.— Verticilla- Id.—CalysaceionWiGnT, III. 1. 130 ; Icon. 1. 1999. 

 ria R. et Pay. Frodr. 81, t. 15. — Chloromyron 4 Spec. 6, 7. Miq. Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. i. 

 Peiis. Enchirid. ii. 73. — Lamprophyllum Miers, 209. — Oliv. Fl. Trop. Jfric. i. 169. — Pl. et 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. xxi. 249, t. 26. Tri. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 4, xiv. 244 {Mammea^ 



2 Spec, about 15. Chois. Gutt. Ind. t. 4, 5. n. 2-6).— H. Bn. Bull. Soc. Linn. Far. 82.— 

 ^ Gin. Njv. Madag. 15. — Pl. et Tri. Ann. Sc. Walp. Ann. vii. 355. 



