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as many as the colls, free or connate, sometimes peltate; ovules 1-2 or oo , 
}»xile, or erect from the base of the cell. Fruit usually baccate and in- 
rlohiscent. Seeds large, albumen 0; embryo consisting of a large radicle 
(tir/ellus) with small or obsolete cotyledons, or of thick free or con- 
solidated cotyledons with a very short inferior radicle. A largo tropical 
family, common in Asia and America, rare in Africa, of &t genera and 
320 species. 
Tribe I. Garcinew. Cells of ovary 1-ovuled ; stig- 
ma sessile or sub-sossile, peltate, entire or with 
radiating lobes. Fruit baccn te, indehiscent: em- 
bryo with cotyledons minute or undistinguiah- 
able. 
Calyx of 4 or 5 sepals ... ... 1. Oarcinia. 
Tribe II. Oalophylleae. Ovary with 1 to 4 erect 
ovules: style 1, slender: stigma peltate, 4-fid. 
Fruit fleshy, usually indohiscent. Embryo with 
2 distinct cotyledons. 
Ovary 1-celled. 
Ovules solitary, style 1, stigma peltate ... 2. Calophyllum. 
Ovules 4 ; style 1, 4- fid. with a stigma 
above each segment ... ... 3. Kayea. 
Ovary 2-celled, 4-ovuled. 
Style 1, stigma peltate ... ... 4. Mesua. 
1. Garcinia, Linn. 
Trees, nsually with yellow juice. Leaves evergreen, coriaceous, very 
raroly stipulate. Flowers solitary, fascicled, or panicled ; axillary or 
terminal ; polygamous. Sepals 4-5, decussate. Petals 4-5, imbricate. 
Male Ft. : Stamens oo, free, or collected into a ring, or an entire globose 
or conical 4-5-lobed mass, often surrounding a rudimentary ovary ; 
anthers sessile, or on short thick filaments, 2 rarely 4-cellt;d, adnafce or 
peltate, dehiscing by slits or pores, or cireumsciss. Female or herma- 
phrodite fl. : Staminodes 8- oo, free or connate. Ovary 2-12-cellud ; 
stigma sessile or sub-sessile, peltate, entire or lobed, smooth or tuber- 
clod ; ovules solitary in each coll, attached to the inner anglo of the eoll. 
Berry with a coriaceous rind. Seeds with a pulpy aril. Distrib. Tropi- 
cal Asia, Africa, and Polynesia; species about 100. 
Subgenus I. Garcinia proper. Sepals 4, decussate : petals 4, 
imbricate. 
Sect. 1. Stamens of male flower occupying both 
sides of 4 pedicelled fleshy processes ; anthers 
sessile, 2-celled, the cells uiore or less orbicular 
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