125- EMPETRACEAE — I26. CORIARIACEAE — 127. ANACARDIACEAE 325 



SUBORDER EMPETRINEAE 



FAMILY 125. EMPETRACEAE 



Lov/ shrubs. Leaves alternate, sometimes almost whorled, undivided, 

 grooved on the under surface, without stipules. Flowers solitary or in heads, 

 bracteolate, unisexual or polygamous. Sepals 3. Petals 3 or none. Stamens 3, 

 hypogynous, opposite to the sepals, free. Disc absent. Ovary superior, 2 — 9- 

 celled. Ovules solitary in each cell, erect, inverted, with ventral raphe. Style 

 branched. Fruit a drupe. Seeds without an outgrowth at the hilum, albu- 

 minous. Embryo axile ; radicle turned downwards. — Genera 2, species 2. 

 North and South Africa. 



Flowers, at least the male, crowded in terminal heads. Ovar}' cells, style- 

 branches, and fruit-stones 2- — 5. Style with linear branches. — - vSpecies 

 I. Canary Islands and Azores. The fruits are used as a condiment and 



in medicine Corema Don 



Flowers solitary, on lateral dwarf-shoots. Ovary-cells, style-branches, and 

 fruit-stones 6 — 9. Style with broadened branches. — Species i. Island 

 of Tristan da Cunha. The fruits (crawberries) are eaten and used for 

 preparing drinks and medicaments Empetrum L. 



SUBORDER CORIARIINEAE 

 FAMILY 126. CORIARIACEAE 



Shrubs. Leaves opposite, simple, entire, 3-nerved, without stipules. Flowers 

 in racemes, hermaphrodite or polygamous. Sepals 5, imbricate in bud. Petals 

 shorter, fleshy, enlarged after liovvering. Stamens 10. Anthers opening 

 inwards. Carpels 5, distinct. Ovule i in each carpel, pendulous, inverted, 

 with dorsal raphe. Fruit with a crustaceous rind, indehiscent. Seeds with 

 scanty albumen. 



Genus i, species i. Nortli-west Africa. Poisonous and used for tanning 

 and dyeing Coriaria L. 



SUBORDER ANACARDIINEAE 



FAMILY 127. ANACARDIACEAE 



Trees or shrubs. Juice resinous. Leaves usually alternate, without stipules. 

 Flowers in panicles, usuallv poh-gamous. Corolla present, rarely {Pistacia) 

 absent. Ovary superior, i — 5-celIed. Ovules solitary in each cell, inverted, 

 with dorsal raphe. Fruit usually a drupe. Albumen of the seeds scant}' or 

 wanting. — Genera 29, species 250. {TEREBINTH AC EAE.) (Plate 81.) 

 I. Carpel i. Style simple, lateral ; stigma entire. Funicle basal. Fertile 

 stamen i, rarely 5. Leaves simple, entire. Trees. [Tribe MAN- 



GIlrEKEAE.] . " 2 



Carpels 2 — 5, sometimes i — 4 of them rudimentary. Style simple with a 

 lobed stigma, or more or less deeply divided, or several free styles. 

 Fertile stamens 3 or more. Leaves usually compound 5 



