x PREFACE. 
Connaracee.—In Eurycoma (longifolia Jack? the 
ovula are erect. After flowering however the non 
abortive ovula is from an unequal growth of the ova- 
rium, carried upwards to such a degree that the seed 
becomes really pendulous. 
Anacardiacee.—In Anacardium, the funiculus is la- 
teral and even parietal. The ovula at a very early 
period is transverse with respect to the axis, neither 
the petals or stamens are perigynous, the stamens are 
hypogynous, the petals inserted into the fleshy base of 
the inflected portions. Dr. Sprengel wisely includes 
this genus in Enneandria although he says, stamina 
decem. - 
In Mangifera, the stamens are distinctly hypogynous 
and united at their bases into a short annulus. Into 
this just below the sinus of the stamens, the petals are 
inserted by a central spot, and not by the whole of 
their bases. In this genus also the ovule is fixed 
laterally; the funicle being adherent to the paries of 
the ovarium. The foramen looks towards the bottom 
of the ovarium. 
. In the Diagnosis the leaves are said to be without pel- 
lucid dots. Their definite stamens certainly do not 
distinguish them from Leguminosæ. 
. As the hypogynous insertion of stamina is certainly 
the most natural no hypogynous order should have 
perigynous staniina ascribed to it because one genus 
: man to diem an n anomaly, and which Mr. Brown 
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