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. Fruit indéhiscent, 

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

 arilliform ; radicle of thick exalbumiuous 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. [Trop. west. Africa, Malacca, trop. Asia and Oceania.) — 

 See p. 405. 



15 ? Rheedia L. 1 — 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. west. Africa." 1 ) 



16 ? Ochrocarpus Dup.-Th. 3 — Flowers nearly of Garcinia ; calyx 

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

 co , 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. 4 ') 



IV. MAMMEEJE. 



17. Mammea Fl. — Flowers polygamo-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 Gen. n. 641.— Pl. et Tiu. Ann. Sc. Nat. eér. Nat. sér. 4, xiv. 364.— B. H. Gen. 175, 980, n. 

 4, xiv. 306.— B. H. Gen. 175, n. 18.— Verticilla- 19.— Calysaceiou Wight, III. 1. 130 ; Icon.t. 1999. 

 ria R. et Pav. Prodr. 81, t. 15. — Chloromyron * Spec. 6, 7. Mm. Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. i. 

 Pkrs. Bnchirid. ii. 73. — Lamprophyllum Miers, 209. — Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afric. i. 169. — Pl. et 

 Trans. Linn. Sue. xxi. 249, t. 26. Tri. Ann. Sc. Nat. sér. 4, xir. 244 (Mammea, 



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



3 Gni. Nn\ Madag. 15. — Pl. et Tri. Ann. Sc. Walf. Ann. vii. 355. 



