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wide depressed. Sepals 3-6, unequal tomentose, imbricated, deci- 

 duous. Stamens co, free, oo-seriate subperigynous ; receptacle be- 

 tween base of filaments more or less glandular ; anthers subovate, 

 introrse (?), longitudinally rimose. Germen (in male flower rudi- 

 mentary) ; style small, 3-5-fid; in female flower globose, 1-locular, 

 surrounded by go short staminodes ; styles 3—6, patent, apex stigma- 

 tiferous thickened. Berry globose ;' seeds cc, nidulant in pulp, 

 exterior pulpy ; testa crustaceous ; albumen fleshy ; embryo axile, 

 straight ; radicle cylindrical ; cotyledons foliaceous, suborbicular. — A 

 large tree; leaves alternate cordate serrate, 5 -nerved at base; petiole 

 rather long, hence glanduliferous ; stipules 2, small, caducous; 

 flowers 2 in axillary and terminal racemes on long subcernuous 

 branches ; male pedicel slender, elongated {Jajjanr). 



III. SAMYDE^]. 



10. Saniyda L. — Flowers regular hermaphrodite apetalous ; re- 

 ceptacle concave, more or less cupulate or campanulate. Sepals 4-6, 

 connate to greater or less height, equal or unequal (coloured) ; prse- 

 floration much imbricated. Stamens 8-co , inserted in the throat ; 

 filaments more or less high in tube of perianth, more or less long 

 adnate connate ; anthers 2-locular, introrse 2-rimose. Germen free, 

 inserted at bottom of receptacle, 1-locular; style at apex capitate 

 stigmatiferous ; placentas 3-8, parietal, cc -ovulate. Fruit coriaceous- 

 fleshy, subglobose or ovoid, finally 3-5-valved at apex. Seeds go, 

 angular ; aril fleshy ; hilum ventral ; testa crustaceous ; embryo 

 axile, small ; cotyledons foliaceous. — Shrubs ; leaves alternate, 2- 

 tichous, pellucid-punctuate, base articulate and furnished with small 

 stipules ; flowers (large), axillary, solitary or sometimes cymose 

 {Western India). See p. 278.' 



11. Guidonia Plum. 4 — Flowers nearly of Samyda, smaller; tube 

 of perianth longer or shorter ; lobes 4—6, sometimes petaloid, imbri- 



1 Cherry of small size, glabrous, golden, eat- 4 Plum., Gen., t. 24 (1703). — L., Gen., etl. 2 

 able. (1742), 520. — H. Bn., in Adansonia, x. 251.— 



2 Pale yellow, and female smaller than male. Casearia Jacq., Stirp. Amer. (1763), 132, t. 85. 



3 Spec. 1. I.polycarpa Maxim., loc. cit. — DC, Prodr., ii. 48. — Endl., Gen., n. 5060. — 

 partly translated and reedit. in Ann. Sc. Nat., Payer, Fam. Nat., 94. — B. H., Gen., 796, 

 ser. 5, vii. 378. u. 1. 



