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NATURAL ITTSTOBY OF PLANTS. 



are in axillarv or tenniiuil racemes, simple, ramified or made up 



of cvnu's. 



Parinari ' (tig- i>l»l) niiiy ^e very briefly defined now that we know 

 the preceding genera ; it is Coiirpia in wliicli the stamens, from ten 

 to twenty in number i.r indefinite, are fertile either only on one side 

 of the (lower or all round the receptacle, while the ovary is divided into 



two uniovulate half-cells by a vertical false 

 dissepiment, which advances from its walls 

 into the interval between the two collate- 

 ral ovules. We often find this represented 

 <\M\Uii/£,/^ ) "^ ^^^^ drupaceous fruit,' for the stone may 



Parinari xentgaUnse. 



be divided into two one-seeded cavities. 

 Parinari consists of trees of which upwards 

 of thirty species have been described ; they 



Fig. 501. J i- • , , • i i l\ 



Perianth and androceum opened havc alternate pcrsistcut smiplc icavcs, the 

 °"^- blade often provided with two lateral 



tjlands at its base, the petiole with two lateral stipules. The 

 flowers are in racemes or corymbs, either simple or made up of 

 cymes.' About half the species inhabit tropical America,' the 

 rest belong to the Old AVorld, to tropical and eastern Africa,' to 

 Australia," and some, finally, to the Indian Archipelago.' Among 

 these last there are species whose flovv^ers often have a reduced 

 number of stamens, and a shallower receptacle than in Huiella 

 or CoKppia. They have, however, been united to the genus 

 Parinari despite these points of dissimilarity, because their ovary 

 and flower present the false dissepiment between the ovules or seeds ; 



' AniL., Ouian., i. 511, t. 204, 206.— Pan/(a- 

 rium J., Gen., 312. — Lamk., Diet., v. 17 ; 

 Suppl., iv. 301 ; III., t. 429.— DC, Prodr., ii. 

 626.— SvACii, Suit, a Buffon, i. 371.— Enul., 

 Grn., n. f.m.— H. H., Gpii., 607, n. o.—Fetro- 

 carifa ScHlcEB., Gen., 215. — Balmitium Destx., 

 Ilnm. Prodr. Ft. Ind. Occ, 31. — Dugortia ScoP., 

 Imfrod., n. 1)56. — Maranthes Bl., Bijdr., 89. — 

 / ' \U.., Fl. Jar. Prrif., v'n. — Gn/mania 



1 Kjiiiinl., 193. — Lepidocarya KoRTit., 



HeH, Kruidk. Arch., iii. 386. — Entosiphon 

 Ubup.. Mndr. Journ. Sc, ser. 3, i. 4t (ex K. H.). 



* Exwplionnllv we nmy find certain dic;ir- 

 pfllnrj' fliiwiTH jirtwhice two dnqjcs. 



* The iiillorescence i.s branched in the species 

 of which I)e Ca>'DOLLE has made his section 

 /' ■■ '///, while hin Neocarya is dcscrii)ed as 

 , j; Rinii(h- terminal racemes. In short, 

 Iho intlorcsccnce of Puriwtri presenta every varia- 

 tion olwcr^cd in Courpia. 



•» Benth., Hook. Jonrn., ii. 213. — Mabt., 

 Ohs. (1819), n. 2670.— Hook. F„ Mart. Fl. 

 Bras., Rosac, 49, t. 17, 18. 



'" Sab., Trans. Bort. Soc, v. 451. — Peek. & 

 GuiLL., Fl. Seneg. Tent., i. 272, t. 61, 62. P. 

 senpgalense Peer., described in this work, from 

 which our fig. 501 is taken, is the Iseou of Adan- 

 SON (ex .T., Gen., 342). The second species there 

 mentioned, P. excelmm Sab., is the Mampata of 

 Adaxson (ex J., loc. cit.) — Benth., Niger, 333. 

 — Hakv. & SoND , Fl. Cap., ii. 596.— H. Bn., 

 Adansonia, vii. 221 ; ix. 148. 



^ Benth., Fl. Austral., ii. 426. 



' MiQ., Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat., iii. 237 ; Fl. 

 Ind.-Bai., i. p. 1, 352 ; Suppl, i. 306.— A. Gkay, 

 Bot. Unit. Slates Fxpl. Exp., t. 54, 55.— 

 KoKTH., Verh. Nat. Gesch., 259, t. 70.— For 

 tile species of various countries see Walp., Rep., 

 ii. 7 ; V. 647 ; .4mm., ii. 463 j iv. 644. 



