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ICACOREA. 
FLoweErs perfect or polygamo-diecious; calyx free, 5 or rarely 4-lobed or parted, 
the divisions contorted or imbricated in estivation; corolla gamopetalous, 5 or rarely 
4 or 6-parted, the divisions dextrorsely or sinistrorsely contorted in estivation ; stamens 
5; Ovary superior, 1-celled; ovules few or numerous. Fruit a dry 1-seeded drupe. 
Leaves simple, alternate, membranaceous or coriaceous, destitute of stipules. 
Icacorea, Aublet, Pl. Guian. ii. Suppl. 1 (1775). — Baillon, Ardisia, Swartz, Prodr. 48 (1788). — Endlicher, Gen. 736. — 
Hist. Pl. xi. 331. Meisner, Gen. 253. — Bentham & Hooker, Gen. ii. 645. — 
Bladhia, Thunberg, Nov. Gen. i. 6 (1781); Fl. Jap. 7.— Engler & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. pt. i. 93. 
A. L. de Jussieu, Gen. 421. Pyrgus, Louriero, F2. Cochin. 120 (1790). 
Small trees or shrubs, sometimes partly herbaceous, glabrous, pubescent or rarely tomentose. 
Leaves alternate, sessile or petiolate, entire or rarely dentate or crenate, membranaceous or coriaceous, 
punctate with immersed resinous dots or short lines at first pellucid, ultimately dark. Flowers in 
terminal or rarely in axillary branched panicles, resinous-punctate, pedicellate, the pedicels bibracteolate 
at the base or ebracteolate. Bracts and bractlets minute, scarious, deciduous or caducous. Calyx five 
or rarely four-lobed or parted, persistent. Corolla rotate, five or rarely four or six-parted, the segments 
short or elongated, white or rose-colored. Stamens five, exserted ; filaments short or nearly obsolete, 
rarely somewhat elongated, free, inserted on the throat of the corolla opposite its divisions; anthers 
usually sagittate-lanceolate, acute, acuminate or apiculate, attached on the back just above the base, 
introrse, two-celled, the cells opening longitudinally sometimes nearly to the base. Ovary globose, one- 
celled ; stigma short or elongated, simple, tipped by a minute undivided style; ovules few or numerous, 
immersed in a free central globose resinous-punctate placenta, peltate, amphitropous; raphe ventral ; 
micropyle superior. Fruit globose or rarely obovoid, naked or crowned at the apex with the remnants 
of the style, black, blue, or scarlet; exocarp thin, usually dry ; endocarp usually crustaceous or bony, 
one-seeded. Seed solitary, globose, concave and more or less lobed at the base, inclosed with the 
abortive lower ovules by the thin membranous remnants of the placenta adnate to the interior surface 
of the endocarp ; testa thin, resinous-punctate ; hilum basilar, concave, conspicuous. Embryo cylin- 
drical, transverse, in copious corneous or cartilaginous albumen ; cotyledons flat on the inner face, 
rounded on the back, shorter than the slender radicle. 
About two hundred living species of Icacorea, inhabitants of tropical and subtropical regions of 
the two hemispheres, are distinguished,’ and traces of many others appear in the tertiary rocks of central 
Europe.” 
The genus has few useful properties ; the fruit of some of the species is said to be edible,*? and 
1 A. de Candolle, Prodr. viii. 120, 670. — Walpers, Rep. vi. 452; bach, Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 394. — Franchet & Savatier, Enum. Pl. Jap. 
Ann. iii. 10. — Miquel, F?. Ind. Bat. ii. pt. i. 1015 ; Suppl. 574.—Or- i. 304.— Hemsley, Bot. Biol. Am. Cent. ii. 291. — Hooker f. Fl. Brit. 
sted, Videnskab. Medd. fra Nat. For. Kjobenh. 1861, 6, t. 2 (exel. Ind. iii. 518. — Forbes & Hemsley, Jour. Linn. Soc. xxvi. 63. 
sec. i.). — Bentham, Fl. Hongk. 206; Fi. Austral. iv. 276. — Oliver, 2 Zittel, Handb. Paleontolog. ii. 737. 
Fi. Trop. Afr. iii. 495. — Miquel, Martius F'. Brasil. x. 281. — Grise- 8 Le Maout & Decaisne, Traité Gén. Bot. English ed. 534. 
