XVIII. GUTTIFEILE. 
Garcinia .1 
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monadelphous or in as many bundles as there are petals, a rudi¬ 
mentary pistil or 0. Female flowers, staminodes various. Ovary 
1- to 2- or many-celled; style slender or none. Stigmas as many 
as ovary-cells, free or connate. Ovules 1 to 2 or many, axile, or 
erect from cell-base. Fruit baccate, drupaceous, or rarely dehiscent. 
Seeds large exalbuminous. Tropics of Asia, America and Africa, 
about 320 species. {King, Journ. ^ 4 s. Sac. Beng. lxix. 147.) 
Flowers unisexual on different trees; fruit baccate; 
stigmas sessile ...... 
Flowers bisexual. 
Calyx, dividing into 2 lobes ..... 
Calyx 4- to 5-lobed. 
Ovary 1-celled; ovule 1 ; flowers .white, numerous ; 
stigma peltate ...... 
Ovary 1 -celled; ovules 4 ; flowers few; stigma 4-fid 
Ovary 2-celled; ovules 4 ; flowers very large; 
stigma peltate ...... 
1. Garcinia 
2. Ochrocarpus 
3. Calophyllum 
4. Kaye a 
5. Mesua 
1. GARCINIA, L. 
Tree of medium or large size, rarely shrubs, with abundance 
of yellow resinous latex. Leaves opposite, coriaceous. Flowers 
solitary or fascicled, axillary or terminal, unisexual. Sepals 4 
to 5 decussate. Petals 4 or 5 decussate. Male flowers, stamens 
indefinite in fascicles or forming a globose or conic mass, rarely 
free. Pistillodes present or not; anthers sessile or on short fila¬ 
ments 2- to 4-celled dehiscing by slits or pores or circumsciss. 
Females, staminodes free or connate. Ovary 2- to 12-celled. Stigma 
sessile or sub-sessile peltate, entire or lobed. Ovules solitary in 
each cell attached to the inner angle. Berry with a fleshy or 
coriaceous rind. Seeds with a pulpy aril. Species about 100, 
tropical Asia, Africa and Polynesia. 
i. Eu-Garcinia. Sepals and petals 4. 
(а) Stamens in males on both sides of 4 fleshy 
processes; anthers usually 2-celled (4- 
celled in G. cuspidata). 
Flowers very small; anthers 2-celled. 
Leaves 2 to 3 in. long by -g to 1 in. wide; 
flowers panicled ..... 
Leaves 2 to 3 in. by 1-75; flowers densely 
crowded ...... 
Flowers twice as large ..... 
Leaves lanceolate; flowers in cymes of 3 
moderately large ..... 
Leaves elliptic blunt, 4 by 3 in.; flowers 
•25 in. long ...... 
Anthers 4-celled. Habit of G. rostrata 
(б) Stamens in male in a 4-lobed mass; anthers 
2-celled; leaves and flowers large stiff 
coriaceous; fruit large; pericarp crus- 
taceous. 
Leaves broad, ovate; nerves conspicuous 
(1) G. eugenisefolia 
{2) G. rostrata 
(3) G. merguensis 
(4) G. lanceolata 
(5) G. diversifolia 
( 6 ) G. cuspidata 
(7) G. Hombroniana 
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