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IV, 68, with timber which is usually compact, Bcented, and beautifully \. in. >!. I.. 

 alternate, pinnated, without stipules. Flowers in terminal panicli ' I 

 Petals 4-5, longer. Stamens 8-10 ; the fila- 



ments either anited into a tube (Swieteniea . \*2> 



or distinct (Cedreleae), and inserted into an 

 hypogynous disk. Style and Btigmaa simple. 

 Cells of the ovary equal in number to the 

 petals, or fewer (3), with the ovules ascending 

 "f pendulous, anatropal, i, or often more, im- 

 bricated, in two rows. Fruit capsular, with the 

 valves separable from the thick axis, with 

 whose angles they alternate. Seeds flat, 

 winged ; albumen thin or none ; embryo ortho- 

 tropal, straight ; cotyledons flattisb "i- fleshy; 

 radicle \ rj short, nezl 1 1 1 < - hilum. 



Nearly related t.. Monads, in whose affini- 

 ties thej participate, and chiefly distinguished 

 bj t lu ii- winged and indefinite seeds. Flin- 

 dersia, a genus established by Brown in the 

 I aptain Flinders' I differs 



horn Cedrelads l">th in the insertion of in 

 si eds, which are erect, in the dehiscence of its 

 capsules, and :il><i in having moveable dissepi- 

 ments: these last, however, Brown considers 

 gments of a common placenta, lu\ ing a 

 peculiar form. Flindersia, and < nloroxylon 

 are distinct from the rest of the Order, in 

 having the leaves dotted with pellucid glands, 

 in which respect the) - rve to connect Cedre- 

 lads with Citronworts, and, notwithstand' 



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pig.cccxxn. i 



me absence of albumen, even wiili Rueworts. 

 Flinders' l 



1 CCCXX II.— Swietenia M 

 bw pistil , 8. fhiil ; 4. a seed; 6. a I I I 



in. soil 



