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100 [ILLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN BOTANY. 
XXX—OLACINEE. QOS,» 
A small order, nearly confined to the tropics, consisting for tke most part of shrubs or 
small trees, often climbing or diffuse, more rarely erect, and armed with spines. The leaves 
are exstipulate, alternate, simple, petioled, undivided and entire: more rarely as in Balanites, 
bifoliolate. The flowers are ‘bisexual, or occasionally, by abortion, polygamous, or dioicous, — 
small, axillary, racemose, | ©” es 
Calyx small, either entire and slightly toothed, or 5 Sepaled, often, when entire, becomin: a 
enlarged with the fruit. Petals 3-5-6, either separate or adhering in pairs; wstivation valvate. 
Stamens 3 10, either all fertile, or with alternate sfcrile ones 
with the petals, either opposite to them when the flowers are symmetrical, or wholly or partially 
alternate,.when unsymmetrical: filaments compressed: anthers oblong, bursting longitudi- 
nally. Ovary 1-5 celled, with pendutous ovules. Fruit drupacious indehiscent, occasionally sur- 
y pendulous. Albumen copious, 
fleshy. Embryo with the radicle next the hilum. Le | 
moat Olaz, the fertile stamens alternate with the petals and unite them by pairs; in Ximenia, — 
and also Opilia, they are opposite the petals, not the sepals in the latter, as stated, through an 
oversight of the authors, in the Flora Senegambie, whoseem to have overlooked the minute Be 
rs Of that genus. In Gomphandia Wall. (list No. 3718) which seems nearly allied to Stew 
monoous, Blume, the stamens equal the petals, and alternate with them, while the flowers are 
usually unisexual by abortion. SUE AUS Glee s: oo 
sy Arrinitres. “These are very uncertain, most authors however agree in adopting DeCan- 
dolle’s arrangement, and “inp them near 4urantiacer, with which they unquestionably have — 
ONMIIG AE eet ade Ae US g Sat eeca hs el of the seed of Olacinee is so 
totally at variance with what we find in Aurantiacee, that it is not easy to recon 
As already 
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