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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



imbricate-decussate sepals, exserted stamens, with small and nearly- 

 globular anthers. The ovary has a single cell, with four ovules, 

 rarely more, inserted quite at the base, and it is surmounted by a 

 long subulate style, divided at the summit into four small pointed 

 lobes. The fruit is indehisoent. Seven or eight species > are known. 

 Pceciloneuron,^ primarily referred to the family of the Ternstroemi- 

 acecB, has nearly the flowers of Mesua, with two biovulate cells in 

 the ovary, two subulate styles, with stigmatiferous punctiform 

 extremity, and a capsular septicidal (?) and monospermous fruit. 

 Two species ^ are distinguished, from the Indian peninsula. 



Calophyllum Calahi. 



Fig. 381. riower (f). 



Fig. 382. Long. sect, of flower (f). 



Calophyllmn* (fig. 381-384), of which a separate group has been 

 made, is exceptional in this series by a single character ; the gynse- 

 cium is reduced to one carpel, and the ovary, consequently, has but 

 one cell with a single anatropous, almost basilar ovule, ordinarily 

 ascending,* and the style is terminated by a more or less oblique 

 stigmatiferous head. The fruit is a drupe the seed of which encloses 



1 Trw. Enmn.Pl. Zei/l. 50.— 'R.'Bs.Adaiisoniii, 

 xj. 368. 



2 See vol. IT. p. 269. This genus, unknown 

 to us, had previously been referred doubtfully 

 to the Ternstrceiniacea. 



3 Bedd. M Sylv. t. 3, 93.— T. Dyer Sook. f. 

 11. Brit. Ind. i. 278. 



* L. Gen. n. 658. — J. Gm. 258; Ann. Mtis. xx. 

 466.— Lamk. Diet. 1. 552 ; Suppl. ii. 17 ; 111. t. 

 459.— GiERTN. Fruct. i. 201, t. 43, fig. l.-DC. 

 Prody. i. 662. — Cameess. Mem. Mus. xvi. 427, 

 t. 17, fig. C— SfACH, Stiit a BuffM, V. 330.— 

 Endl. Gen. n, 5448.— Payer, Fam. Nat. 40.— 

 B. H. Oen. 175, n. 20.— Pt. et Tei. Ann. So. Nat. 



ser. 4, XV. lil.—Calaba Plum. Gen. 39, t. 18. — 

 Adans. J'flTij.. des PI. ii. 446. — Inophyllu/m Burm. 

 Tlies. Zeyl. 130. — Xalop/iA/llodendronYAiLii. Mem. 

 Acad. Pay. [1722] 207. — Bahamaria Lour. Fl. 

 Cochinch. (ed. 1790) 469. — Apoterium Bl. Bijdr. 

 218. — Zamprnphyllum Miers, Trans, linn. iSoc. 

 xxi. 249, t. 26, fig. 13 (part). 



' Owing to the slight variations presented 

 by the point of insertion and to its anatropy 

 more or less complete, this ovule may here and 

 there direct its mioropyle towards the side or 

 even towards the top of the cell ; as we have 

 seen in certain fresh flowers of the cultivated 

 plant. 



