CLUSIACE^. 417 



undivided embryo of a great number of Barringtoniece is found in 

 the GlusiacecB. These are ordinarily placed next beside the Tern- 

 strcemiacecB^ with, which, their aflQ.nitie8 are so close that one might 

 include in one and the same family the Guttiferce and certain Tern- 

 stroemiaceoB. The latter are distinguished by their alternate leaves, 

 or, in the exceptional types with opposite leaves, by their flowers in 

 clusters, with alternate pedicels, ordinarily hermaphrodite and very 

 rarely tetramerous, so that their sepals and petals are not decussate. 

 Further, the Ternstroemiacece have not a coloured latex, and the 

 embryo, often curved, has distinct and independent cotyledons, when 

 even they are not largely developed. Finally, the GlusiaeeoB, scarcely 

 separable from the St. John's Worts, appear equally allied to the 

 Ternstrcemiaceos and Myrtacece. 



Uses.' — The Glusiacece have a yellow or greenish, more rarely 

 whitish latex, which contains an acrid resinous matter, often possessing 

 evaeuant, sometimes stimulant and tonic properties. The most 

 celebrated, as well as the most active of these substances, is gum- 

 gutta, the production of which has been attributed to several 

 Oarciniece. The best comes from Garcinia Morella ^ (fig. 354, 378), 

 and it seems clear, from the most recent researches,^ that its different 

 varieties alone, whether in Ceylon,* in Siam or at Singapore,^ yield 

 the good gum-gutta used in medicine as a drastic and hydragogue, 

 and in the arts as a yellow colour.* G. Xanthochymibs' (fig. 372-375), 



' Endl. Enchirid. 635. — Lindl. Fl. Med. 113 ; Goralta), 

 Veg.Mngd. (1846) 401.— Guib. Drag. Simpl. ed. 3 Hanb. Trans. Linn. Soc. xxiv. 489, t. 30.— 



6, iii. 600.— EosENXH. Sinop. Fl. Diaphor. 740, Db Lanessan, Hu. g. Garcinia et de I'orig. de la, 



a^O. Gomme-gutte, Adansonia, x. 283, t. 31. — Guib. 



zDeskoubb. Lamk. Diet. iii. 201. — Thw. loc. eit. 602, &g. 7Si.—'H.ATiB. et Fi.uck. PAai - 



Enttm. PL Zeyl. 49.— (?. Gutta Wight, III. 125, macogr: 77.— Hook. r. Fl. Erit. Ind. i. 264, n. 14. 

 t. 44 (excl. syn.) — G. oamhogioides Eotle, Mat. * Var. sessilis (Hanb. loc. dt.). 



Med. ed. 3, 339.— ff. lobuloio, Wall. Cat. n. ^I'a.r.pedieeUata^E./J'iB.loc.cit.). J.Hooker 



4868.— (?. elUptica Wall. Oat. n. 4869.— ff. la- (Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 485) gives to this variety 



terifiora Bl. Bijdr. 214.— ff. pictoria Roxb. Fl. the name Garcinia Hanburt/i. The flowers of G. 



Ind. ii. 627.— Wight. lean. i. t. 102— Chois. pictoria Roxb. being pedicellate, this fatter 



Gutt. de I'Inde, 37. — G. ucuminata Pl. et Tin. name ought perhaps to be adopted, if the species 



Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 4, xiv. 355. — G. Gaudichaudii is really distinct. 



Pl. et Tri. — Guttifera vera KcEs.—Carcapuli 6 They contain from 15 to 20 per cent, of 



dictus magnit. cerasi Linsch. It. (trans, de Bry) gum soluble in water, not the same a? gum 



100. — Arbor indica gummi-guitam fundens . . . — arabic, and a resin soluble in alcohol, which it 



Herm. Mus. Zeyl. 26. — Stalagmitis cambogioides colours areddishyellow,neutral or slightly acid, 



MuER. Cmam. Goett. ix. 73 (part). — Sebradendron forming with alkalis a deep-coloured solution. 

 cambogioides Gkah. Kook. Comp. Bot. Mag. ii. ' Hook. p. Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 269, n. 28. — X. 



199, t. 21 .—Cambogia Gutta Lindl. Veg. Kingd. pictoriiis Roxb. Pl. Oorom. ii. 51, 1. 196 ; Fl. Ind. 



400 (part). — Sebradendron piotorium Gkah. ii. 633. — X tinctorius DO. Prodr. i. 662.— 



ICooJc. Comp. Bot. Mag. ii. 199 {Oo&atu, Eana Chois. Guttif. Ind. 32.— Guib. loc. cit. 611. 



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