490 | MR. D. HANBURY ON A SPECIES OF GARCINIA. 
as usual. In some other Garcinie the filament is continued directly into the base of 
the anther, passing from the base to the apex, the anther being technically adnate. 
A priori the explanation of the Hebradendron-anther would be simply this :—that the 
connective of a peltate anther had become dilated transversely to such a degree that the 
lines of dehiscence were marginal, and the dehiscence quasi circumscissile, as Messrs» 
Planchon and Triana term it. I believe, however, that the anthers of the Gamboge 
Garcinia are not peltate, that they are truly circumscissile, and that they are a singular 
adaptation of the adnate type of anther. It would appear as though in this species 
thick, nearly sessile, and very densely packed anthers, of the adnate type, have their 
lateral normal polliniferous lobes wholly, or almost wholly, obliterated, and the pollen, 
lodged in cells of irregular form and number towards and around the apex of the anther, 
is set free by a special transverse line of dehiscence adapted to this peculiar condition. 
Evidence, in support of the view that the anther of G. Morella is a modification of the 
adnate rather than of the peltate form of anther, 
we find in the circumstance that the pollen is con- 
tained in numerous irregular pouches, the anther 
heing, in fact, multilocular, as may be well seen 
either in a young anther (figs. 2 & 3) or in an anther 
after dehiscence (fig. 4). The circumscissile line of 
dehiscence, common to the numerous loculaments 
of the anther, is continuous all round the discoid 
apex of the connective, and is not interrupted at two points corresponding to the organic 
apex and base respectively, as it is in anthers of the ordinary peltate form.” 
DESCRIPTION OF THE PLATE. 
Prats L. 
Fig. 1. Branch bearing male flowers. 
Fig. 2. Male flower. 
Fig. 3. Male flower, calyx and corolla removed. 
Fig. 4. Stamen showing the circumscissile anther. 
Fig. 5, Female flower. 
Fig. 6. Female flower, calyx and corolla removed. 
Fig. 7. Pistil. 
Fig. 8. Longitudinal section of same. 
Fig. 9. Transverse section of ovary. 
Fig. 10. Branch bearing fruits. 
Fig. 11. Transverse section of fruit, four-celled. 
Fig. 12. Ditto., three-celled—one-seeded by abortion. 
[Figs. 1, 10, 11, & 12 of natural size ; the remainder magnified. ] 
