Ordee XXXI. BURSERACEiE. 



Flowers perfect or polygamous. Calyx 3-5-fi(l 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. Peotium. 



1. BALSAMODENDRON, Ktli. 



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. \. p. 526. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves unequally pinnate ; leaflets 3-5, sessile, dot- 

 less. Flowers on very sliort (1-2 lines long) peduncles, solitary or tufted. 

 B. Capense^ Sd. ; on the North-Western frontier, near the Gariep. 



2. PROTIUM, AY. 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, 2-4-celled, tapering into 

 a short stvle ; stigma 3-4-lobed. Drupe fleshy, globose, 1-4- 

 celled.— >Z. Cap. ii. 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 Balsamodeiidron by its inflorescence. F. Africanum, H., found near 

 Durban, Natal, by Gerrard and M'Ken. 



Order XXXII. MELIACE^. 



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, 



