Mesua.} GUTTIFERZ. 245 
Calyx closed before flowering, at length opening into 2 or (rarely) 
3 valvate segments; petuls 4; ovary 2-celled, ovules 2 in each cell; style 
short, stout, stigma 3-lobed; embryo a large radicle mth; parsed 
cotyledon 
yx of 1s free sep 
Ovary (2-celled) ae orale (erect) 2 in each cell; style long, stigma 
peltate ; embryo a small radicle with two Price besten): fruit uid 
Mes 
Ovary with ovules solithity in ‘dah ce 
* 2-12-celled; ovule attached to inner angle of each cell; stigma 
ssile or subsessile, entire or lobed, peltate; embryo a large radicle 
a small cotyledons ; petals 4-5......ssssseseereenertenenessenee Garcinia, 
77. Ochrocarpus Thouars. 
Trees with coriaceous usually 3-nately whorled leaves. Flowers 
axillary, polygamous or hermaphrodite. Sepals connate in a closed 
calyx, opening in flower into 2, rarely 3, rather irregular valvate 
sepals, Petals 4—7 or more. Geahions numerous ; filaments 
linear with dehiscence longitudinal. Ovary 2-celled; style short, 
Stout, stigma 3-lobed ; ovules in each cell 2 on the inner angle. 
Fruit 1-4-seeded, berry-like. Seeds large ; embryo a large radicle 
with aeagaiel cotyledons. 
123. OchRocarpus ere Benth. & Hook. f£; F. B. I. 
Orissa, adi Chittagong. 
A medium-sized tree. Uriya Chluriana; Hind. Nag- 
kesar; Beng. Nagesar. 
78. Mesua Linn. 
Trees; leaves opposite, very coriaceous, often gland- — 
veins many, slender, parallel, at right angles to midrib. Flower 
large, showy, solitary, axillary, polygamous OF” he se. 
Sepals 4, ‘tae Petals 4-5, imbricate. Stamens numerous; 
i , free or connate at the base; anthers erect, 
oblong, Qecelled: Qelddosrids longitudinal. Ovary 2-celled; style 
ee stigma peltate ; ovules 2 in each cell, erect. Fruit dehiscent, 
© pericarp firmly leathery, 1-celled from absorption of the 
iter. opening by 4 valves. Seeds 1-4; testa fragile, arillus 0, 
