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Orper XXXI. BURSERACEZ. 
Flowers perfect or polygamous. Calyx 3-5-fid or parted, 
imbricate or valvate. Petals 3-5, deciduous. Disk annular 
or cup-like, free or adnate to the calyx tube. Stamens mostly 
twice as many as petals, on the margin or at base of the disk ; 
anthers subglobose or oblong, versatile. Ovary 2-5-celled, 
often with a short style; ovules 1-2 in each cell. Fruit 
drupaceous, indehiscent, 2-5-celled.—Trees or shrubs, balsami- 
ferous or oily. Leaves 3-foliolate or pinnate, rarely opposite, 
without stipules ; leaflets very rarely pellucid-dotted. Flowers 
small, racemose or panicled. 
Flowers on very short, 1-flowered peduncles . . 1. BALSAMODENDRON. 
Flowers many, in a long peduncled panicle. . . 2. PRoTiUM. 
1. BALSAMODENDRON, Kth. 
Flowers polygamous. Calyx urceolate or tubular, 4-toothed, 
persistent. Petals 4, suberect, linear-oblong, induplicate- 
valvate. Disk erect, cup-like. Stamens 8, on the margin of 
the disk, erect, free ; the alternate shorter. Ovary girt by the 
disk, 2-3-celled, tapering into a short style; stigma 4-lobed. 
Drupe ovoid or globose, 1-3-celled—Fl. Cap. 1. p. 526. 
Trees or shrubs. Leaves unequally pinnate; leaflets 3-5, sessile, dot- 
less. Flowers on very short (1-2 lines long) peduncles, solitary or tufted. 
B. Capense, Sd. ; on the North-Western frontier, near the Gariep. 
2. PROTIUM, W. and A. 
Calyx small, cup-like, 4—6-fid or toothed, valvate. Petals 
4—6, erect or spreading, linear-oblong, valvate. Disk urceolate, 
covering the calyx-tube, margin free. Stamens 8-12, inserted 
under the margin of the disk, unequal, erect, free. Ovary 
girt at base by the small disk, ovate, 24-celled, tapering into 
a short style; stigma 3-4-lobed. Drupe fleshy, globose, 1—4- 
celled.— Fl. Cap. 11. p. 592. 
Small, balsamineous trees. Leaves toward the end of the twigs, 3-folio- 
late or imparipinnate ; leaflets in few pairs, entire or denticulate. Panicles 
on long peduncles, diffusely branched. Flowers small.—Readily known 
from Balsamodendron by its inflorescence. P. Africanum, H., found near 
Durban, Natal, by Gerrard and M‘Ken. 
Orppr XXXII. MELIACES. 
Flowers regular, mostly perfect. Calyx short, 4-5-fid or 
parted, imbricate. Petals 4-5, longer than the calyx, twisted 
or imbricate, sometimes connate and valvate. Stamens 8-10 
(rarely 5-16-20); filaments inserted outside a fleshy disk, 
