170 TEREBINTHACE. SORINDEJA. 
fleshy 4—5-lobed disk. Ovary with its base immersed in the torus, oblique, 
consisting of a solitary carpel, 1-celled, 1-ovuled: ovule attached a little 
above the base to the upper side of the ovary. Style 1, from the upper edge _ 
of the ovary, curved downwards. Stigma simple. Drupe somewhat com- 
pressed ; sarcocarp fleshy ; nut compressed, woody, 1-celled, 2-valved, co- 
vered on the outside with fibrous filaments. Seed solitary. Embryo between 
erect and transverse. Cotyledons thick, fleshy : radicle opposite to the hilum, 
curved slightly upwards.—Trees. Leaves alternate, coriaceous, entire and 
quite entire. Panicles terminal, much branched. Flowers small. 
M. oppositifolia, Roxb., differs from this genus b having opposite leaves, 4-5 sta- 
mens all fertile, a short style composed of 3 combined, 3 stigmas, of which 2 are 
abortive and 1 fertile and much larger than the others, an evalvular nut, and erect 
embryo. To this we propose to apply the generic name of Cambessedea. 
527. (1) M. Indica (Linn. :) leaves lanceolate, acuminated, glabrous, shin- 
ing: panicles pubescent, erect : petals 5: fertile stamen arising from the inner 
side of the lobed disk: drupe obliquely oblong or somewhat reniform, obtuse, 
OE mee prod. 2. p. 63; Spr. syst. 1. p. 17 ; Roxb. fl. Ind. 1. p. 641; 
ed Wall.) 2. p.435 ; in E. I. C. mus. tab. 69 ; Wight! cat. n. 541.—M. monta- 
"uar oe domestica, Gertn.—Rheed. Mal. 4. t.1,2; Rumph: Amb. 1. 
4. 25, 61? 
VL SORINDEJA. Pet.-Thouars. 
Flowers polygamous, diccious. Calyx urceolate, with usually 5 obsolete. 
acute teeth, persistent. Petals as many as the teeth of the calyx, inserted on 
the middle of the tube, sessile, oblong, spreading over the margin of the calyx: 
sestivation between valvular and imbricative. Torus a thin fleshy disk cover- 
from the base of the cell: style very short, thick. Stigma 3-lobed. Drupe 
somewhat compressed: nut covered with fibrous filaments. Embryo between 
` Inverted and transverse, Cotyledons thick, fleshy: radicle opposite to the 
hilum.—A tree, Leaves alternate, un ally xi alea be 
Flowers small. » unequally pinnated. Panic 
Kunth and De Gantt? stamens in the bisexual flowers, not 5, as described br 
the former appears to have taken his ref. a inci i | 
u Petit Thouars 
Brown mentions another quw from the Con A c we lieet Li seen. £ osed 
t- 60, is See e by ilton, but we are rather 
* 528. (1) S. Madagascariensis (DC. :) leaflets al pubs 
Í . 2) le ternate or o , 
neate-oblong, retuse with a short blunt Eom jonini, olabrous, waved 
on the margin.— Dc. prod. 2, p. 80; Wight! eat. n 369.—Mangifera pinnata, 
Lam. encycl. meth. 3. p. 697 (not Linn.) ; herb, Ham. !, and in Linn. Soc. Tr. — ; 
13. p. 531.— Bursera acutifolia, Sieb. / maur, r, n. 288 
The specimens before us were from Klein’s herbarium, and marked as gê- 
thered in the Missionaries’ Garden in 1809. We do not know from whence | 
thé plant was obtained ; probably from the Mauritius, where it has been for 
along time cultivated in the Botanie Garden near Pomplemousse. 
