IIYPEEICACEiE. 
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alternate, imbricate in bud. Stamens many, united in several hypo- 
gynous bundles ; anthers versatile, 2-celled. Ovary 3-5-celled ; placen- 
tation axile ; styles 5, distinct ; stigmas capitate. Fruit a drupe or sep- 
ticidal capsule. Seeds exalbuminous. — Herbs or shrubs with exstipulate 
opposite entire often gland-dotted leaves, and yellow flowers in terminal 
corymbose panicles. Disteib. Cosmopolitan, both temperate and 
tropical. Species 200. 
1. HARONGA, Thouars. 
Sepals 5, lanceolate. Petals 5, villose on the face. Hypogynous scales 
5, alternate with the petals. Stamens in 5 bundles, opposite the petals. 
Ovary 5-celled ; ovules 2-4 in a cell, axile ; styles 5, distinct, long, 
diverging ; stigmas capitate. Fruit a drupe, each carpel with a hard 
endocarp. — A single species. 
1. H. madagascariensis, Choisy ; DC. Prod. i. 541. A shrub, 10- 
15 feet high ; branches, leaves beneath, and sepals clothed with pale 
brown lepidote pubescence. Leaves petioled, oblong, entire, acute, firm, 
green and glabrous above, rounded at the base, 4-6 long. Plowers very 
numerous, minute, ^ in. broad, in leafless corymbose terminal panicles. 
Drupe globose, in. thick. H. paniculata, Spach. 
Mauritius, common in woods. Also Bourbon, Madagascar, and widely spread in 
Tropical Africa. Bois Harongue. 
Order XII. GUTTIFERJE. 
Flowers regular, hermaphrodite, polygamous or dioicous. Sepals 2, 
decussate, or 3-6 imbricated. Petals 0-6, contorted or imbricated. 
Stamens very many, hypogynous, free or connate in bundles, or 
in one mass ; anthers 2-celled, adnate. Ovary 1- or many-celled ; 
ovules 1 or several from the inner angle or base of the cells; style 
0 or short ; stigmas as many as the cells. Fruit usually an in- 
dehiscent berry. Seeds exalbuminous. — Trees or shrubs with abun- 
dant yellow or greenish juice, opposite, coriaceous, entire, closely 
penninerved leaves, and showy white, yellowy or rose-red flowers. 
Disteib. Cosmopolitan in tropics, few African. Species 230. 
1. CALOPHYLLUM, Linn. 
Flowers polygamous. Sepals passing into petals, 4 biseriai, or many 
multiserial, outer obtuse, convex on the back. Stamens very nume- 
rous, free or connate at the base ; anthers dehiscing laterally. 
Ovary 1-celled ; ovule 1, erect ; style filiform ; stigma 1, peltate. Fruit 
a drupe, with a crustaceous endocarp and 1 large seed with a brown 
membranous testa, surrounded by spongy cellular tissue ; embryo with 
thick fleshy cotyledons, and a small radicle. — Trees with opposite 
shining leaves, with close distinct spreading veins, and copious flowers 
