\r,vrn. i,i;f;rMi\osi;. V)7 



p. 275; Watt, Dii-f. Eoon. Prod. v. 2, j). 2o4. Tamnnndus SlJlrpm, 

 Woodr. iu Jouru. Bomb. Nat. v. U (ISUS) p. 428.— Vehn-. Meccutii- 

 anili, 



HcematoxDlon CainpechianH)ii, Linn. S|). PI. (IT').'!) p. 384. The 

 Lor/wood Tree, a native ot" Tropical America, has been successfully grown 

 in the Deccan, where it seems to thrive well. It has thick spikes 

 of fragrant yellow flowers and small 1-seeded p.jds. Dalz. & Gibs. 

 Siippl. p. 28 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1898) p. 427 ; Watt, 

 Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 4, p. 198.— Flowers : Oct. 



Okder XLIX. rosacea. 



Herbs, shrubs, or trees. Leaves simple or compound, aUernate 

 (rarely opposite), stipulate. Flowers usually regular and hermaphrodite. 

 Calyx-tube free or rarely adnate to the ovary, the limb usually 5-lobed. 

 Disk lining the calyx-tube or forming a ring at its base. Petals 5 

 (rarely 0), inserted under the marj^in of the disk, deciduous, usually 

 imbricate. Stamens perigynous, usually indefinite, in one or many 

 series; filaments subulate or filiform, usually incurved in bud ; anthers 

 small, didymous. Ovary of 1 or more free or connate carpels; ovules 

 1 or more in each carpel ; styles as many as the carpels, free or connate, 

 basal, lateral, or subterrninal ; stigmas simple, penicillate or capitate. 

 Fruit variable, consisting of achenes, berries, or drupes, rai'ely capsular. 

 Seeds erect or pendulous, exalbuminous ; testa membranous or coriaceous, 

 sometimes expanded into a wing ; cotyledons large, plauo-couvex ; radicle 

 short. — DisTRiB. Throughonfc the world, chiefly in temperate regions ; 

 genera more than 70 ; species about 1200. 



Unarmed trees 1. Pvoeum. 



Pricklj shrubs 2. Ecbus. 



Herbs. 



Fruit of mimeroiis small achenes 3. Potentilla. 



Fruit of 10 connate carpels 4. Neurada. 



1. PYGEUM, Ga^rtn. 



Evergreen trees or shrubs. Leaves simple, alternate, persistent, 

 nsually quite entire, often with 2 glands at or near the base : stipules 

 minute, fugacious. Flowers small, racemose or paniculate, sometimes 

 nnisexual by want of the ovary. Calyx deciduous ; tube obconic, urceo- 

 late, or campanulate ; limb 5-l;j-toothed, often unequally. Petals 5-6 

 in the 5-()-toothed calyx, iu the 8-15-toothed, villous or tomentose 

 (rarely glabrous), often indistinguishable from the calyx-lobes. Stamens 

 10-50, in 1 or more series at the orifice of the calyx-tube ; filaments 

 filiform, incurved in bud; anthers small, didymous. Carpel 1, basal in 

 the calyx-tube, ovoid or subglobose ; o\ules 2, collateral, pendulous; 

 style terminal ; stigma capitate. Fruit a transversely oblong 2-lobed 

 indehiscent drupe; pericarp thin, dry or juicy; cotyledons very thick, 

 hemispheric; radicle minute, superior. — Disthib. Tropical Asiatic with 

 1 African species ; species about 30. 



Petals 4-6; drupe less than 1 in. broad 1. p. Wigltfianum, 



Petals 0; drupe 1 in. or more broad 2 P. Gnrdtieri. 



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