THE ARGAN TREE OF MAROCCO. 105 



B-fidis, lobis rotundatis concavis. Stamina fertilia 5, lobis corollse 

 opposita, horum basi inserta. Filamenta subulata. Antherce cor- 

 dato-subrotundse, versatiles. Filamenta sterilia tubo corollae adnata, 

 lobis alterna, squamaeformia, e lata basi dentata, subulata. Ovarium 

 ovato-globosum, hirsutmn, bi- tri- rarius 4-loculare, loculis uniovu- 

 latis. Stylus subulatus, staminibus lougior. Stigma punctiforme. 

 Ovula medio axis pericarpii inserta. Fructus ; — Drupa elliptica, 

 ovata, oblonga sen subrotunda, sesquiuncialis ad biunciam longa, 

 IseviSj acuta, mono- di- tri- rarius tetra-pyrena ; pyrenis arete unitis, 

 lignoso-corneiSj monospermis, non raro 1-3 abortivis. Testa crassa. 

 Endopleura tenuis, vasculosa. Albumen oleosum, Emhryo erectus, 

 strictus, araplus, cotyledonihus amplis planis. — Arbor 'cel arbuscula 

 Maroccana. Eami spinosi. Folia parva^ alterna, smpe fasciculata^ 

 lineari- seu oblonyo~spatJiulatis^ vix petiolatis. Florcs in axillis fo- 

 lionim et spinarum aggregatiy sessiles, 



Argania Sideroxylon, (Tab. nostr. III. et IV.) 



Argania Sideroxylon, Rcem. et ScJiult. v, 4. p. xlvi. et 503. Alph. Be 

 Cand, Prodr. v. 8. p. 187. ^alp. Repert. v. Q.p. 455. De Noein 

 Revue Horticole, 1853.;?, 125. 



Sideroxylon spinosum, Linn, Hort. Cliff, j?. 69. (exch syn. et local,) 



Correa in Annales du Mus. d'Eist. Nat. v. %. p. 393, cumlc.fruct. 



Hhamnus Siculus, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 12. v. 3. p. 227. fexcL synjnon 



Bo CO. 



NaLed. Gmelp.BQS.r/id 



excl. syn, Bocc. 



Elseodendron Argan, Retz, Obs. Bot, v. 6. p. 26. Willd. Sp. PL v. 1. 



p. 1148. (excL syn. Jacq, et Bocc.) ScAousboe, Marocc.p. 89. 

 Argan, Bryand. in Trans. Linn. Sac. v. 2. p. 225. 

 Hab. Forming woods in the southern and western regions of the 



kingdom of Marocco, principally of Haka and south of Mogador. 



Descb, This appears to form a low spreading tree or shrub, varying 



din 



diameter 



height. Kecently imported living plants, now before me, though 

 not more than a foot or a foot and a half high, have the appearance of 

 considerable age, from their thick trunks (thicker than one's wrist) and 

 crooked and seemingly stunted branches; branches s^m^-. the branchkts 

 themselves are often spinescent, like our Prunus spinosa, and there is 



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