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ORDER XXVIII. CLUSIACEZ. 
Trees or shrubs: sometimes pargsitical, with resinous juiee: 
leaves opposite, without stipules, coriaceous, with a strong mid- 
rib and oblique parallel veins: sepals 2-6, round, often unequal: 
and coloured, imbricated in estivation: petals hypogynous, 4— 
10, or equal in number to the sepals: stamens hypogynous, in-. 
definite, distinct or united at the base: filaments unequal: an- 
thers adnate, bursting inwards, occasionally very minute, 1- 
celled and opening by a pore: disk fleshy, occasionally 5-lobed ! 
ovary solitary, 1 or many-celled: ovules solitary or many in 
each cell, erect, or numerous and attached to central. placentae : 
style none or very short: stigma peltate or radiate: fruit cap- 
sular, fleshy or drupaceous, 1 or many-celled, 1 or many-seed- 
ed, dehiscent or indehiscent: seeds immersed in pulp, often with 
an aril: albumen none. 
GENUS I.. GARCINIA. 
Polyandria Monogynia. Sex: “Syst: 
_ Deriv. Named after M. Garcin, a French Botanist and traveller 
in the East. 
Gen. Cuar. Flowers monecious or dizecious: sepals 4, persis« 
tent: petals 4, deciduous. Mazz: Stamens short, inserted on a° 
large, fleshy, 4-lobed disk. Fumaze: Stamens 8-30, imperfect : 
filaments distinct or monadelphous or 4-adelphous: the fascicles 
alternate with the petals: anthers usually glandular: ovary 4—10- 
celled: ovules solitary : style very short, crowned with the peltate 
stigma: fruit fleshy and juicy, indehiscent, crowned with the per- 
manent style. 
(1) G. campocia. (Desr.) 
Ident. W.& A. prod. I. p. 100.—-Dec. prod. I.. p. 561.— 
Roxb. fl. Ind. II. p. 621. 
Syn. Cambogia gutta, Linn. ——Mangostana cambogia, Gaertn. 
_ Engrav. Rheede Mal. I. t, 24. 
Srrc. Cuan. Tree: leaves lanceolate: flowers terminal, nearly 
sessile, solitary: female filaments about 16, distinct: stigma, 8~ 
10-lobed, fruit 8-10-furrowed, 8-10-seeded. 
Travancore, flowering in February and March, 
