SATJIACE^E 369 



No. 1. 8-4 cm. long, 1-5-2 cm. broad, elliptic, narrowed to both 

 ends, sinuate-serrate, with reclined points, penninerved, thin, his- 

 pid above, toraentose on the margin and beneath, shining green. 



No. 2. Ditto. 



Meliosma Arnottiana, Wight. 



Hypocotyl as in M. pungens, but minutely pubescent and green- 

 ish or slightly tinged with red. 



Cotyledons oval-oblong or elliptic, acute, entire, shortly petio- 

 late, ciliate, otherwise glabrous, light green, pinnatinerved as in the 

 leaves. 



Stem erect, terete, pubescent, herbaceous ; 1st internode 2-3 mm. 

 long. 



First leaves ovate-lanceolate, acute, almost acuminate, coarsely 

 serrate, coarsely hairy, green, pinnatinerved. 



ANACARDIACE^E. 



Benth. et Hook. Gen. PI. i. 415. 



Fruit and Seed. The ovary in this Order generally consists 

 of one carpel and is therefore one-celled; but in the tribe 

 Spondiese the ovary is syncarpous, consisting of two to five 

 carpels and containing as many cells. From the occurrence 

 sometimes of several distinct carpels in one flower, the one- 

 celled ovaries may be considered as reduced types. This is 

 strengthened by the fact that a three-celled ovary occurs, though 

 rarely, in some of the species of Pistacia, where the one-celled 

 condition is the rule. The flowers are polygamo-dicecious or 

 unisexual, and in some of the potentially male flowers there are 

 four or five aborted carpels or a four- to five-partite ovary in 

 the same condition. The ovules are solitary in each ovary or 

 in each cell of the pmrilocular ovaries, and pendulous, or 

 attached to the side walls of the carpels or suspended by a 

 furiicle arising from the base of the cell. The micropyle is 

 inferior and the raphe dorsal or passing round one end of the 

 horizontal seed and along the dorsal edge for some distance, as 

 in Buchanania latifolia, where it is very thick and prominent. 

 In Pistacia the ovule is erect, with a ventral raphe and an 

 inferior micropyle. 



