86 GUTTIFERS. [ Gareinia, 
GUTTIFER. 
wers regular, dioecious, polygamous, or hermaphrodite. 
Sepals 2-6, imbricate. Petals as many, rarely more, imbricate or 
nts 
Female flowers: staminodes various. Ovary 1-2-or more-celled, 
with one or more ovules in each cell; stigmas as many as ovary- 
cells or variously consolidated, sessile or on a longer or shorter a 
style. Fruit usually an indehiscent berry with a fleshy or pulpy 
mesocarp. Seeds large. Albumen none. Cotyledons either small 
and the radicle large, or thick and large, and the radicle very short.— 
Trees or shrubs often abounding in a yellow juice, with opposite 
simple often coriaceous leaves. Stipules none. Flowers axillary 
or terminal, solitary, clustered, in racemes or panicles. 
The yellow acrid gum-resin called gamboge comes chiefly from 
a Garcinia, and some Burmese species may yield a substitute for. 
| ds of several Calophylia yield oil. All the Burmese species 
are woody. 
* Stigma sessile, or on a short and thick style. Cotyledons 
minute or none, the radicle large and solid. 
Calyx of 4 or 5 imbricate se ‘ : - Garcinia. 
Calyx closed in bud, bursting into 2 valve - Ochrocarpus. 
s ‘ : ; 
* > Style slender, single, or rarely 2. Cotyledons large and 
eshy, free or consolidated, the radicle small. 
Ovary 1-celled, l-ovuled; stigma peltate . = 7 ;. - Calophyllum. 
stigma 4-cleft ; . : . Kayea, 
Ovary 2-celled, 4-ovuled ; stigma peltate 
GARCINIA, L. 
: . Mesua, 
dioecious or polygamous. Sepals 4 and decussate, or 
Flowers dioe 
rarely 5 or 6 and imbricate. Petals 4 or 5, imbricate. Males: 
stamens numerous, free or united in an entire or lobed fleshy mass, 
- 
-—Trees, rarely shrubs, with coriaceous rarely 
fleshy-membranous simple leaves. Flowers solitary, fascicled, or 
_-% Stamens of male flowers in 4 bundles under the 
— radime; | ovary. Ovary 4-10-celled; stigma 
