680 SUPPLEMENT— ANACARDIACEiE. 



1. CASTELA. Turpin, in ann. mus. 7. t. 5; HooJc. hot. misc. 1. 2^- 271, 



t.55. 



Dioecio-polygamous. Calyx small, 4-cleft. Petals 4, oval, concave, 

 spreading. Stkrile Fl. Stamens 8, inserted on a small hypogynous disk: 

 filaments filiform : anthers introrse, opening longitudinally nearly their whole 

 length ? Ovaries abortive. Fertile Ft. Stamens 8 : filaments short : 

 anthers mostly sterile. Ovaries 4, united in the axis : style very short : 

 stigmas 4, recurved. Drupes 4, at length distinct and spreading. Seed 

 pendulous, with a small quantity of albumen. — Evergreen (West Indian) 

 shrubs, with somewhat thorny branchlets, and alternate entire (thick) leaves. 

 Stipules none. Flowers small, axillary. 



This genus varies from the character assigned to the order Ochnaceae in several 

 points, some of which we have introduced into the ordinal character. It doubt- 

 less forms a distinct tribe or section. 



1. C. Nicholsoni (Hook.) : leaves elliptical, coriaceous, mucronulate, the 

 lower surface as well as the branchlets silky-canescent ; spines axillary ; 

 stamens hirsute. Hook. I. c. 



(S. Texana : leaves lanceolate or oblong-linear. 



Texas, Drummond I (/?.) A native also of Antigua (where it is called 

 Goat-hush by the negroes), whence it was sent to Sir Wm. Hooker, by Dr. 

 T. Nicholson. The Texan plant accords with the figure, except that the 

 leaves are mostly narrower. 



Order ZANTHOXYLACEiE. 



1. ZANTHOXYLUM, _p. 214. 

 § 3. Sepals, petals, and stamens 4 ; ovaries 2. — Fagara, Jacq. 



3. Z. Pterota? (H. B. & K.) : prickly; leaves unequally pinnate ; leaf- 

 lets 3-4 [-6] pairs, obovate-oblong, obtuse, emarginate, glabrous, the mar- 

 gins crenate and glandular-punctate ; petiole winged, aculeolate ; spikes 

 axillary, solitary or geminate, shorter than the petiole ; ovaries 2 ; capsule 

 solitary, pisiform (prickles geminate, stipular, uncinate). Kunth, syn. 3. p. 

 325; DC. prodr. 1. pi. 725. Fagara,Pterota, Linn. ammn. 5. p. 393. 



Texas, Drummond ! (Without flowers or fruit.) — The leaflets in the Texan 

 plant are small, mostly 6 pairs, and the petiole is unarmed. 



2. PTELEA, p. 214. 



1. P. trifoliata. — Add syn. Guimp. Otto,Sf Hayne, Jwlz.t. 74. 



0. mollis : branchlets, petioles, and lower surface of the leaves clothed 

 with a soft tomeutose pubescence, even when old. (Texas, Drummond!) 



Order ANACARDIACE^. 



1. RHUS, p. 216—219. 



1. R. typhina. — Upon an abnormal state of this (according to Mr. Ben- 



