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The Clusiaces and Guttifers are distinguished for their succulent 
juicy fruit, in many cases large apples, the Mangosteen (Garcinia 
Mangostana) being the most delicious. They are all plants of the 
tropics, which Dr. Wight describes as trees of majestic size and 
handsome form, and deserving of cultivation for the beauty of 
their clustered flowers, and the richly coloured wings of their 
curious fruit. The Crustacem are chiefly natives of tropical 
America, a few of Madagascar and Africa, and similar regions where 
great heat and moisture are combined. Gamboge is the secretion, 
as is supposed, of Garcinia cochinchinensis ; and most of them yield 
balsams and other officinal products. 
NYMPHALES. 
Hypogynous exogens with dichlamydeous flowers, placentae 
axile or sutural, embryo on the outside of a large mass of mealy 
albumen, but sometimes without. 8 genera, 56 species. 
Exogenous herbs, with peltate or cordate Pevsoan 4 anc rising from 
4 prostrate trunk, = agg _ being vaters ; flowers large, showy, some- 
times sweet-scent d fruit, "and dissepimental place enta. 
The Water Lilies are floating peg inhabit the northern hemisphere, 
Sometimes in Sou nh Africa. On the ouat of Arateine, they are repre- 
Sented by the Victoria Regia, 
CXLVIII. Nymphecee. 
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Exogenous sai plants, with floating peltate leaves, axillary flowers, 
solitary, yellow, or purple; sepals three or four, coloured inside petals ; 
three or four alternate, — es age or ge or indefinite ; anthers 
continuous with the fila carpels distinct; abundant albumen; no 
Visible torus, Water-ahaite rg? America, ne rom Cayenne to New Jersey. 'y, 
and Australia beyond the tropics. 
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CXLIX, Cabombacee. 
Exogenous herbs, with peltate floating leaves, rising from a prostrate 
sbutiens A benae ie : bp CL. Nelumbiacéz. 
including the Lotus and Egyptian 
The Nympwaxes are floating plants, with peltate or fleshy cordate 
lea eaves, arising from the prostrate trunks growing in quiet waters. 
Their flowers are large, showy, and of bright white, yellow, or 
blue colours. -They inhabit the whole of the northern hemisphere; 
occasionally they are met with on the South African coast, but — 
generally they are rare in the southern hemisphere. In the 
South American continent they are represented by the Victoria 
Lily. Among the Euryalides, so named after one of the Gorgons, 
they have the tube of the calyx adherent. to the disc. E. ferow is 
an elegant aquatic, covered with prickles, with peltate orbicular 
— and bluish purple or violet flowers. This species emulates 
