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as many as the cells, free or connate, sometimes peltate ; ovules 1-2 or go , 

 axile, or erect from the base of the cell. Fruit usually baccate and in- 

 dehiscent. Seeds large, albumen ; embryo consisting of a large radicle 

 (tigellus) with small or obsolete cotyledons, or of thick free or con- 

 solidated cotyledons with a very short inferior radicle. A large tropical 

 family, common in Asia and America, rare in Africa, of 24 genera and 

 320 species. 



Tribe I. Garcinece. Cells of ovary 1-ovuled ; stig- 

 ma sessile or sub-sessile, peltate, entire or with 

 radiating lobes. Fruit baccate, indehiscent: em- 

 bryo with cotyledons minute or undistinguish- 

 able. 



Calyx of 4 or 5 sepals ... ... 1. Garcinia. 



Tribe II. Calophijlleae. Ovary with 1 to 4 erect 

 ovules : style 1, slender : stigma peltate, 4-fid. 

 Fruit fleshy, usually indehiscent. Embryo with 

 2 distinct cotyledons. 

 Ovary 1- celled. 



Ovules solitary, style 1, stigma peltate ... 2. Calophyllum. 

 Ovules 4 ; style 1, 4-fid. with a stigma 



above each segment ... ... 3. Kayea. 



Ovary 2-celled, 4-ovuled. 



Style 1, stigma peltate ... ... 4. Mesua. 



1. Garcinia, Linn. 



Trees, usually with yellow juice. Leaves evergreen, coriaceous, very 

 rarely stipulate. Flowers solitary, fascicled, or panicled ; axillary or 

 terminal ; polygamous. Sepals 4-5, decussate. Petals 4-5, imbricate. 

 Male fl. : Stamens oo, free, or collected into a ring, or an entire globose 

 or conical 4-5-lobed mass, often surrounding a rudimentary ovary ; 

 anthers sessile, or on short thick filaments, 2 rarely 4-celled, adnate or 

 peltate, dehiscing by slits or pores, or circumsciss. Female or herma- 

 phrodite FL. : Staminodes 8- oo, free or connate. Ovary 2-12-celled ; 

 stigma sessile or sub-sessile, peltate, entire or lobed, smooth or tuber- 

 cled ; ovules solitary in each cell, attached to the inner angle of the cell. 

 Berry with a coriaceous rind. Seeds with a pulpy aril. Distrib. Tropi- 

 cal Asia, Africa, and Polynesia ; species about 100. 



Subgenus I. Garcinia proper. Sepals 4, decussate : petals 4, 

 imbricate. 

 Sect. 1. Stamens of male flower occupying both 



sides of 4 pedicelled fleshy processes ; anthers 



sessile, 2-celled, the cells more or less orbicular 



