182 ILLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN BOTANY. 
except one) free, or rarely adhering to the calyx, 1-celled (or sometimes with two additional 
abortive cells, the remains of the imperfect carpels): ovule solitary, attached to a podosperm 
distributed the order, each of which may, in some measure, be looked upon as a distinct order, 4 
and is so viewed by both Bartling and Lindley, 
“ Suborder 1. Anacardieae (Br.) Fiowers usually unisexual. Calyx usually small, 5. 
which always arises from the base of the cell, but is frequently adnate to one of its sides to 
Suborder 2. Spondieae (Kunth.) Flowers sometimes unisexual. Calyx 5-cleft, regular, — 
Petals 5, equal; estivation between valvate and imbricate. 
Torus large, discoid. Ovarium Superior, sessile, 2-5-celled : 
5 short: stigmas obtuse. Fruit drupaceous, 2-5 celled, 
none. Radicle pointing to the hilum: 
nate, alternate, not dotted, exstipulate. 
Suborder 3. Bursereae (Kunth.) Flowers usually bisexual. 
ovules solitary, pendulois: styles, 
Calyx persistent, somewhat 
regular, 2-5 divided. Petals 3-5, equal ; : 
Torus orbicular. Ovarium 2-5 celled, superior, ; 
style one or none: stigma simple or lobed. Fruit 
cotyledons fleshy, or wrinkled and plaited.—Trees or shrubs abou 
resin. Leaves alternate, usually, 
AFFINITIES, Supposing the order broken 
hers, then the various orders into which it is di 
Stamens 10, perigynous, distinct. — 
Seed solitary in each cell. _ Albumen — 
cotyledons plano-convex.— Trees, Leaves imparipin- — 
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the 
t characte Amyrideae associate with Auranti - 
with which the aceae, Rutaceae 
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y their hypogynous Stamens. 
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