ue ^ ANACARDIACEX. (CASHEW FAMILY.) 
inserted under an orbicular or annular disk at the bottom of the calyx, 
mostly valvate in the bud. Stamens twice as many as the petals, and in- 
serted with them: anthers introrse. Ovules anatropous, pendulous, 
mostly two in each cell. Stigmas 1-5. Fruit drupaceous, dry; the peri- 
carp often splitting into valves. Albumen none. * Radicle superior. 
1. BURSERA, Jacquin. 
Flowers polygamous. Sterile Fl. Calyx 3-5-parted. Petals 3-5, valvate 
in the bud. Stamens 6-10. Disk crenulate. Fertile Fl. Calyx 3-parted. 
Petals 3. Stamens 6. Ovary ovate, 3-celled. Style short: stigma 3-lobed. 
Drupe oblong, 1-seeded ; the pericarp 3-valved. Cotyledons wrinkled. 
1. B. gummifera, Jacquin. Leaves alternate, 3 — 9-foliolate, long-peti- 
oled, deciduous ; leaflets stalked, opposite, ovate, acuminate, entire, rounded or 
slightly cordate at the base, at length smooth on both sides ; flowers small, 
whitish, in axillary racemes ; drupe purplish. — South Florida. — A large tree. 
2. AMYRIS, L. Torcn-Woop. 
Flowers perfect. Calyx 4-parted. Petals 4, narrowed at the base, imbricated 
in the bud. Stamens 8, shorter than the petals, hypogynous. Ovary 1-celled. 
Stigma capitate. Drupe globose, l-seeded. Cotyledons plano-convex. — Trees 
or shrubs. Leaves 3-7-foliolate, opposite, with glandular pellucid dots. Flow- 
ers panicled, white. 
1. A. Floridana, Nutt. Smooth; leaves petioled, trifoliolate ; leaflets 
ovate, obtuse, entire, on slender stalks ; branches of the panicle opposite ; drupe, 
like the flowers, dotted.— South Florida.— A shrub or small tree. Leaves 
1'-1j' long, shining above. Flowers yellowish-white. 
Orper 37. ANACARDIACE. (Casnew FawrLY.) 
Trees or shrubs, with milky or resinous juice, alternate exstipulate dot- 
less leaves, and perfect or polygamous regular flowers. — Sepals and 
petals 4 — 5, imbrieated in the bud. Stamens as many as the petals, or 
twice as many, and inserted with them into the base of the calyx. Ovary 
solitary, with a single ovule ascending from the base of the cell. Style 
simple or 3-cleft. Fruit ee Seeds without albumen. Radicle 
pia 
de RHUS, de SvxAcn. 
Calyx S-parted. Petals 5, inserted with the 5 stamens on the disk which sur- 
