102 XX. GUTTIFEEJ]. 



Order XX. GUTTIFER^. 



Flowers regular, usually dioecious or polygamous. Sepals 2 to 6 or rarely 

 more, much imbricate or in decussate pairs. Petals 2 to 6, rarely more, imbricate 

 or contorted. Male flowers : Stamens usually indefinite, free or variously united ; 

 anthers adnate, innate, or sometimes immersed in the mass of filaments. Ovary 

 none, or rudimentary, or more or less developed. Female or hermaphrodite 

 flowers : Staminodia or stamens usually fewer and more free than in the males. 

 Ovary 2 or more celled, rarely 1-celled, with 1 or more ovules in each cell, erect 

 from the base or attached to the central angle. Stigmas as many as cells, radiat- 

 ing or united into one, sessile or raised on a simple or rarely branched style. 

 Fruit usually fleshy or coriaceous, indehiseent or opening septicidally in as many 

 valves as cells. Seeds thick, often arillate, without albumen. Embryo filling 

 the seed, often apparently homogeneous, consisting either of a fleshy radicle, with 

 minute or without any cotyledons, or of thick fleshy cotyledons, with a very 

 short, usually inferior radicle. — Trees or shrubs, exuding a yellow resinous juice. 

 Leaves opposite or rarely vertieillate, thickly coriaceous and entire. Flowers 

 terminal or axillary, solitary, clustered or in trichotomous cymes or panicles. 



A tropical Order both in the New and in the Old World. 



Teibe I. Garcinies. — Ovary cells 1-ovnled ; stigma sessile or subsessile, peltate, entire or 

 with radiating lobes. Berry indehiseent. Embryo of a solid tigellus with minute cotyledons or 

 none. 



Calyx of 4 or 5 sepals .1. Gabcinia. 



Tribe II. CalophylleSB. — Ovary with 1, 2, or i erect ovules; style slender (rarely styles 

 2); stigma peltate or i-Jld or acute. Fruit fleshy, rarely dehiscent. Embryo of 2 -fleshy free or 

 consolidated cotyledons, with a small radicle. 



Ovary 1-celled, 1-ovuled ; style 1, stigma peltate .... . . . . 2. Calophyllcm. 



Ovary 1-celled, 4-ovuled ; style 1, stigma 4-fid . . 3. Katea. 



1. GARCINIA, Linn. 



(Name in honour of Laurence Garoin, M.D., a French botanist.) 



Flowers polygamous or dioecious. Sepals J , in opposite pairs. Petals 4 or 5. 

 Male flowers : Stamens indefinite, free, tetradelphous or monadelphous ; anthers 

 erect or peltate, dehiscing longitudinally or ciroumscissile. Female or hermaph- 

 rodite flowers : Staminodia various, free or united ; ovary 2 or many-celled ; 

 stigmas sessile, lobed, smooth or tuberculate ; ovules solitary. Fruit a berry ; 

 embryo an undivided thick radicle (tigella*). — Glabrous trees, usually with a 

 yellow juice. Leaves coriaceous or submembranous, opposite, or ternately verti- 

 eillate. Flowers solitary, fascicled or subpaniculate, axillary or terminal.— 

 Oliver in Fl. Trop. Africa. 



Leaves narrow lanceolate, 2 to Sin. long 1. G. Mestoni. 



Leaves lanceolate-ovate, 3 to Sin. long > 2. Gf. Warrenii. 



Leaves ovate-lanceolate, 3 to 4in. long. Fruit yellow, oval, IJin. I6ng . . . 3. G. Clierryi. 



1. Cr. IXEestoni (after A. Meston), liail. Sep. Bell. Ker Exped. 1889. 

 Meston's mangosteen. An erect, slender, graceful tree of 20ft. or more, 

 branches drooping. Leaves glossy dark-green, opposite, narrow-lanceolate, the 

 points much elongated, 2 or Sin. long, somewhat wavy but with entire edges ; 

 petioles slender, ^in. or more long. Flowers (only a few very early buds seen, 

 and these much injured by insects) probably small, either terminal or leaf- 

 opposed, nearly sessile, with a few small bracts at the base. Sepals 4, small, 

 imbricate. Petals white and seem to be hairy. Fruit depressed-globular, a 



• A latinised word from the French tigella, diminutive of tige, .a stem ; the portion of the 

 embryo between the radicle and the cotyledons. 



