LV. SIMAEUBE^E. 



327 



Suriana. 



Carpel cut 



vertically (mag.). 



Quassia amara. 

 Disk and ovary (mag.) 



Cneorum tricoccum. 



Cneorum. 

 Vertical section of carpel (mag.). 



Cneorum. 

 Seed, entire and cut vertically (mag.). 



FLOWERS diclinous or polygamous. PETALS 35, rarely 0, hypogynous, imbricate 

 or valvate. STAMENS inserted at the base of a hypogynous disk, as many or twice as 

 many as the petals, rarely oo. CARPELS 2 5, free, or connate into a deeply-lobed 15- 

 celled ovary. OVULES usually solitary in each cell. FRUIT a drupe, capsule or samara. 

 SEEDS pendulous, albuminous or not. EMBRYO straight or bent. STEM woody. LEAVES 

 usually alternate and pinnate, not dotted. 



SHRUBS or scentless TREES ; bark often bitter, sometimes extremely so. LEAVES 

 alternate, or rarely opposite (Brunellia, Cneoridium), pinnate, rarely 1-3-foliolate 



