COySARACE.E. AXACARDIACE.E. 547 



X Seeds with a I hum en. 

 CxKSTis, Jussicu. 

 Carpels 5-7, sessile, pilose or hispid within. Leaves iinpaii'ed pinnate. 

 C. PLATAN'THA, GHlf. Pcgu and Tenasserim up to 3000 feet. 



C.Jiuminea, Gritf. 



Tor-kyct-loiik or Kyot-mouk-ni. 



A scandent shrub. Sepals a line long. Leaflets usually opposite. 



C. RAMiFLORA, GritT. <S. or T. Tropical forests of the Andamaus. 



Eourca dasyphylla, Mii^. 

 C. ignea, Planch. 



Sepals 2 lines long. Flowers long, pedicelled. Leaflets often alternate. 



X X Seeds icifhout albumen. 

 ELMPAXTnus, Uooher, f. 

 Sepals erect. Carpels solitary, tomentosc or velvety within. Leaves l-foliolute. 



** Leaves glahrous or nearly so. Follicles glahrous icif/tin. 

 E. cALOPHTLLUs, Kz. Tropicul forests of the Andaruans. 



Leaves and petiole glabrous, the former 4-G inches long, nerves beneath very 

 slender. 



E. Helferi, H. f. Tenasserim or the Andamans. 



Petiole and mitlrib beneath puberulous. Leaves 2-3 inches long, nerves strong 

 beneath. 



** Leaves puheseent or tometitose beneath. Follicles glabrotis within. 



E. TOMENTosus, Kz. Southcm end of Pegu Range and Tenasserim 



Nerves beneath very slender. Follicles li-2 inches long. 



This Order is of small importance economically, consisting of small trees and 

 scandent shrubs. The handsome Zebra wood of Bcnierara is said, however, to be 

 produced by a species of this Order, Omphalobium Lamberti. 



Series II. DISCIFL0EJ5. 

 Torus usually thichcned or expanded into a disk, either free or adnate to the ovary, or 

 (o the calyx, or to both, rarely reduced to glands or wanting. Ovary superior, or partially 

 immersed in the disk, divided into cells, with axile placentas, or the carjiels distinct. 



SAPINDALES. 

 Flowers often irregular and unisexual. J>isk tumid, adnate to the base of the 

 Calyx or lining its tube. Siaynetis perigynous, or inserted upon the disk, or between 

 it and the ovarj', usually definite. Oniry entire, lobed, or apocarpous. Ovules one or 

 two in each cell, usually ascending with a ventral raphe, or reversed, or pendulous 

 ftom a basal funicle, rarely many, horizontal. Seed usually exalbuminous. Embryo 

 often curved or crumpled. Leaves usually compound. 



Order ANACARDIACE^. 



Flowers hermaphrodite or unisexual, usually regular. Calyx 3-7-cleft or 

 parted, rarely spathaceous, or irregularly slit, the sepals sometimes wing-like, 

 enlarging, or the tube or base of tube thickened and turning fleshy. Petals 3-7, 

 rarely none, free, or very rarely united with the torus, sometimes enlarging into 

 wings. Disk usually annular, rarely the torus raised and stalk-like. Stamens usually 

 twice as many as petals, usually inserted at the base of the disk, all perfect or 

 variously imperfect. Anthers dehiscing inwards. Ovary superior, usually I-celled, 



