CLUSIACEJE. 



397 



Cluna ovigera. 



Fig. 357. Male flower 

 ■without perianth, (f). 



Fig. 358. Long sect, 

 of embryo. 



flowers, the sterile stamens are definite in number (from 5 to 10) or 



indefinite ; they surround the base of the ovary, and are free or 



united to a certain extent. The gynsecium is sessile, with a 4-10- 



celled ovary, surmounted 



by a style rarely erect 



and cylindrical, much 



more frequently divided 



from the base into a 



variable number (4-10) 



of thick radiating refiexed 



entire or crenated lobes. 



In the internal angle of 



each cell are numerous 



transverse or slightly 



oblique and anatropous ovules, with the micropyle turned from the 



side of the placenta.^ The fruit is spherical or ovoid, coriaceous or 



fleshy, but finally septicidal, 



with thick valves which separate Clmia Fana-panari. 



from an angular column, charged 

 with seeds. The latter variable 

 in number, sometimes few, as in 

 C. Pana-panarP (fig. 359, 360), 

 are small, covered with a fieshy 

 aril, complete or incomplete, and 

 enclose under their coats a large 

 fleshy and macropod embryo, 

 with cotyledons very small rela- 

 tively to the thick ovoid radicle 

 (fig. 358). ■ . . . 



This genus has been divided into numerous sections,^ according 

 to the character of the andrcecium. This may serve to distinguish 

 Clusia proper,* with exterior and interior stamens sterile and anthers 

 free and linear, Criuva,^ in which the staminal filaments are short 

 (fig. 867) free, or more or less connate below, and Arrudea, which 



Fig. 359. Fruit (4). 



Fig. 360. Trans- 

 verse sect, of fruit. 



' They have a double coat. 



2 Chois. DC. Frodr. i. 659, n. 13.— H. Bk. 

 Payer Fam, Nat. 269. — Quapoya Fana-panari 

 AuBl. Guim. 901, t. 344. 



3 16 (Pl. et Tei. Ann. Se. Nat. eer. 4, xiii. 318). 

 * Mclmia (p. 396, note 3). 



" B. H. not Pl. et Tki. (p. 396, note 3). To 

 the sect. Spharandra (same note) Bbntham and 

 HoOKEB refer Triplandron Benth. {Sulph. 73, t. 

 38) Arrudea A. S.-H. Polythecandra Pl. et Tri. 

 (foe. cit. xiii. 314) Astrotheea Miers (ex Pl. et 

 Tri. loc. cit. xiv. 254), Cahotia Karbt. Zinncea^ 



