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balsam tree. 
Natural Order, Guttiferas, (Juss.) Linncean Classifica- 
tion, PoLYANDRIA MoNOGYNIA. 
CLUSIA* (Linn.) 
Calyx of 4 to 8 sepals imbricated and coloured. Corolla of 4 to 8 petals. 
Stamens numerous. Style none. Stigma radiately peltate. Flowers 
commonly polygamous, with the fertile ovary surrounded by a short 
thick nectary. Capsule fleshy, coriaceous, 5 to 12 valved, opening at 
the apex ; placentse triangular, united into a central column, each one 
attached to the introflected valvules. Seeds terete; cotyledones sepa- 
rable. 
Parasitical trees of tropical America, with opposite coriaceous entire leaves 
without stipules. 
YELLOW FLOWERED BALSAM TREE. 
CLUSIA flava, floribus polygamis , calyce polyphyllo , corolla tetrapetala 
Jiava , staminibus numerosis brevibus , stigmatibus circiter 12, foliis 
obovatis obtusis aliquando emarginatis , breviter petiolatis striatis. De- 
cand. Prod. vol. 1, p. 559. 
Clausa flava, foliis aveniis , corollis tetrapetalis . Linn. Syst. Veg. 
vol. 4, p. 328. Jacq. Stirp. Amer. p. 272, t. 167. 
* Named in honour of Charles de l’Ecluse, a celebrated botanist of the 
16th century. 
