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X AIT HAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



stemonous. Ovary plurilocular, surrounded by a thick pulviniform 

 disk. Ovules solitary, descending, with exterior and inferior micro- 

 pyle. Style single. Fruit drupaceous, with bony stone, mono- 

 spermous. Seed exalbuminous j embryo fleshy. — Thorny shrubs of 

 the Old World, with 2-foliolate leaves ; insipid, not punctuate. — 

 (1 genus.) 



IX. Quassie.e. 1 — Flowers hermaphrodite or declinous, regular, 

 isostemonous or diplostemonous. Stamens often furnished with a 

 scale within the base of their filament. Grynseceum inserted imme- 

 diately above the androceum, or separated from it by a receptacular 

 internode more or less elongated. Carpels oppositipetalous, equal in 

 number or inferior to that of the petals, free {Equassia), or united 

 (Picramniece) 2 in the ovary, united, or more rarely free, in the styles. 

 Ovules generally solitary, and descending, with exterior and superior 

 micropyle (more rarely 2— oc). Fruits dry, rarely dehiscent or sama- 

 roid, generally fleshy. Albumen fleshy, or nil. — Woody plant-, 

 mostly natives of warm countries, with simple or compound ex- 

 stipulate leaves, and of which all parts, usually provided with, glan- 

 dular punctures, are generally intensely bitter. — (27 genera.) 



X. Cneore^e. 3 — Flowers hermaphrodite, 3-4-merous, isostemo- 

 nous. Ovary with. 3, 4 cells, often divided into secondary uniovulate 

 cells. Ovules 1, 2, anrphitropous, descending, with superior and 

 exterior micropyle. Fruit drupaceous, with 3, 4 shells, indehiscent, 

 the stone often 2-locellate. Seeds albuminous, with recurved em- 

 bryo.- — Shrubs, slightly bitter, with alternate simple leaves, punc- 

 tuate upon the edges, and axillary flowers collected in cymes. — 

 (1 genus.) 



XI. Zygophylle.e. 4 — -Flowers hermaphrodite, regular or irregular, 

 rarely apetalous. 5 Stamens hypogynous, equal in number to the 

 petals, or double or triple in number, with free filaments, often 

 accompanied by a scale w r ithin the base. Gynreceum sessile or sti- 

 pitate, with several cells (2-12), superposed to the petals when thej r 



1 Simarubece DC, Diss. Ochnac. (in Aim. 

 Mus., xv'.i. 323; ]'rodr., i. 733, Ord. 752.— 

 A. I ess., in Mem. litis., xii. 512. — Ag., op. cit., 

 223.— B. H., Gen., 306, Ord. 40. — Sima- 

 'rcce men., Anal, du Fr„ 21, (1808). — 

 LlNDL., Tntrod., ed. 2,120; Veg. Kingd., 4,76, 

 Old. 179.— Enj)L., Gen., 1113, Old! 219.— 

 Ailanthece Ao., op. cit., 223. 



- Picramnieee B. H., Gen., 307, 313, Trib. 2. 



3 Cneorea: Webb, in Hook. LoiiJ. Journ., i. 



(1812), 251. — Ag., op. cit., 228, t. IS. — 

 Pteleacece (part.) K., loc. cit. — DC, Prodi'., ii. 

 83. — Connaracece (part.) Exdl., Gen., 1141. 



4 R. En., in Mind. Voy., ii. 515 (1814).— 

 DC, Prod,-., i. 703, Ord. 50.— A. Juss., in 

 Mem. Mm., xii. (1825), 450. — Endl., &'<->., 

 1161, Ord. 253.— Ag., op. cit., 205, 1. 18.— B. H., 

 Gen., 262, Ord. 37. — Zygophyllacea Lindl., 

 Introd., ed. 2, 133; Veg. Kingd., 478, Ord. 180. 



6 In Augea (?). 



