C LU SI ACE M. 415 



common to the tropical regions of both worlds ; Garcinia to those of 

 the old world ; Ochroearpus to Asia and Africa, nearly all located in 

 Madagascar. Only one Galophyllum is known in Australia. 



All the Glusiaceœ have common characters by which they are 

 easily recognized in collections. All are woody, not unfrequently 

 sarmentose, some pseudo-epiphytal, 1 frequently rich in a resinous or 

 gummy latex, yellow or greenish. 2 The leaves are opposite, rarely 

 verticillate, nearly always entire, thick, coriaceous, glabrous, penni- 

 nerved, but with veinules generally scarcely visible. They are 

 rarely dentate or cut, and rarely furnished with stipules. 3 In one or 

 two Quiina only are they pinnatifid or pinnatisect. 1 The flowers are 

 regular, rarely hermaphrodite (Si/mphomeœ), ordinarily polygamo- 

 dicecious, most frequently disposed in cymes united in more or less 

 compound inflorescences ; they are white, greenish, yellow, pink or 

 red, but never blue. The seed is destitute of albumen. 



The characters which vary are : the number of floral parts, the 

 prefloration of the calyx, the structure of the calyx, the union or 

 separation of the sexes in the same flower, the organization of the 

 gynrecium, the greater or less development of interlocular partitions, 

 the number and direction of the ovules, the consistence of the peri- 

 carp which is dry or fleshy, dehiscent or indéhiscent, and especially 

 the character of the embryo which more especially distinguishes the 

 following series : 



I. Cltjsie^;. — Flowers polygamo-dioecious. Calyx imbricate. 

 Ovary cells l-oo -ovulate. Style short, peltate, or in radiating divi- 

 sions at the summit of the ovary, with stigmatic lobes more or less 

 distinct. Fruit finally dehiscent. Embryo fleshy, macropod, with 

 very small and scarcely distinct cotyledons. — 8 genera. 



1 They are nourished from the soil into which canes à gemme dans les Quiinêes, Compt. Rend. 

 their roots are plunged ; hut they often twine lxiii. 717 ; Adansonia, viii. 91), and in Garcinia, 

 round trees for support and finally kill them ; hy De Lanessan (see p. 417, note 3). 

 whence the common names, Murderous bind- 3 These organs appear to exist in certain 

 weed, Cursed figs, Millepedes, etc. Quiina ; but in the other groups what is de- 



2 The reservoirs of these juices have been scribed as such is probably only a petiolate dila- 

 especially studied by M. Tkiîcul (Des vaiss. tation (see Pl. et Tei. Ann. Se. Nat. sér. 4, xvi. 

 propr. 'in,. s les Clusiacées, Compt. Rend. Acad. Sc. 268). 



lxiii. 537, G13 ; Adansonia, vii. 182, 194 ;— Lu- J Pinnatipartite in Touroulia. 



