C LU SI A CE. E. 



397 



C!wia ovîgera. 



flowers, the sterile stamens are definite in number (from 5 to 10) or 

 indefinite ; they surround the base of the ovary, and are free or 

 united to a certain extent. The gymncium is sessile, with a 4-10- 

 eelled ovary, surmounted 

 by a style rarely erect 

 and cylindrical, much 

 more frequently divided 

 from the base into a 

 variable number (4-10) 

 of thick radiating reflexed 

 entire or crenated lobes. 

 In the internal angle of 

 each cell are numerous 

 transverse or slightly 

 oblique and anatropous ovules, with the micropyle turned from the 

 side of the placenta. 1 The fruit is spherical or ovoid, coriaceous or 

 fleshy, but finally septicidal, 

 with thick valves which separate 

 from an angular column, charged 

 The latter variable 



Fig. 3.57. Male flower 

 without perianth. (\). 



Fig. 358. Long sect, 

 of embryo. 



Clusia Pana-panari. 



Fig. 359. Fruit (|). 



with seeds. 



in number, sometimes few, as in 

 C. Pana-panari" (fig. 359, 360), 

 are small, covered with a fleshy 

 aril, complete or incomplete, and 

 enclose under their coats a large 

 fleshy and macropod embryo, 

 with cotyledons very small rela- 

 tively to the thick ovoid radicle 

 (fig. 358). 



This genus has been divided into numerous sections, 3 according 

 to the character of the andrœcium. This may serve to distinguish 

 Clusia proper, 4 with exterior and interior stamens sterile and anthers 

 free and linear, Griuva, 5 in which the staminal filaments are short 

 (fig. 357) free, or more or less connate below, and Arrudea, which 



Fig. 360. Trans- 

 verse sect, of fruit. 



1 They have a double coat. 



a Chois. DC. Prodr. i. 559, n. 13.— H. Bx. 

 Payer Fam. Nat. 269. — Quapoya Pana-panari 

 Aubl. Guian. 901, t. 344. 



3 16 (Pl. et Tin. Ann. fie. Nat. sér. 4, xiii. 318). 



* Eucltuda (p. 396, note 3). 



5 B. H. not Pl. et Tri. (p. 396, note 3). To 

 the sect. Sphœrandra (same note) Bentham and 

 Hooker refer Triplandron Benth. (Sulp/i. 73, t. 

 38) Arrudea A. S.-H. Polythecu.nd.ra Pl. et Tin. 

 {loc, cit. xiii. 314) Astrot/ieca Miers (ex Pl. et 

 Tri. loc. cit. xiv. 254), Cahotia Karst. Linuœa 



