BUTACEJE. 



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at internal angle of germen above the middle, afterwards cohering 

 among themselves in a thick, obovoid, stigmatiferous mass, reflexed, 

 thickened at apex. Fruit cocci 3, rostrate at apex, 2-valved; endo- 

 carp solute ; seeds oblong ; embryo . . . ? — A small glabrous tree, 

 glandular-punctulate, and fragrant ; leaves alternate, petiolate, 3- 

 foliolate, punctulate; flowers 1 in long pedunculate axillary cymes, 

 often 2, 3-chotomous, few-flowered ; pedicels foliaceous, bracteate 2 

 (Jamaica 3 ). 



52? Melanococca Bl 4 — Flowers hermaphrodite; receptacle short. 

 Calyx short, 5, 6-fid, valvate, persistent. Petals same in number, 

 obtuse. Stamens 5, 6, alternipetalous, outwardly inserted below 

 thick depressed annular disk ; filaments free, short ; anthers in- 

 trorse, 2-rimose. Carpels 5, 6, more or less coherent by short 

 laterally stigmatiferous styles ; ovules in each germen solitary. 

 Drupes 1-4, oblique, globose, succulent ; putamen unequally lenti- 

 cular, bony, tuberculate or rugose. Seed compressed- reniform, 

 sinuous umbilicate ; testa membranous ; albumen thin ; embryo 

 curved ; cotyledons subovate, flat ; radicle cylindrical, ascending, 

 slightly shorter. — A small tree, simply ramified ; branches, leaves, and 

 inflorescence tomentose ; leaves alternate, imparipinnate ; folioles 

 4-7 -jugate, subopposite, entire, epunctuate, veined ; flowers in axil- 

 lary and terminal ramified panicles 5 (N. Guinea'''). 



53. Comeurya H. Bn. 7 — Flowers hermaphrodite (?) ; receptacle 

 shortly cupuliform or pateriform, inwardly clothed with obscure 

 crenate disk. Sepals 5, imbricated, and petals same in number, 

 alternate, longer, at apex slightly imbricated or contorted, inserted 

 at margin of receptacle. Stamens 10, 5 are oppositipetalous, shorter, 

 inserted with perianth ; filaments filiform ; anthers introrse, linear- 

 oblong, versatile, 2-rimose. Carpels 5, oppositipetalous, free ; germens 



1 Whitish-lutescent, rather large, fragrant. 



2 A genus made into an order as a very ano- 

 malous medium between Butaceee and Ochnacem, 

 on account of tbe spiral insertion of tbe leaves of 

 perianth and tbe indefinite number of stamens. 

 All parts of the plant glandular and odoriferous. 



3 Spec. 4. P. pteleoides Walp., loc. clt. — 

 Pachystigma pteleoides Hook., in Bot. May., t. 

 4470. 



4 Hus. Lugd.-Bat., i. 236 (Anacardiacece). 

 — B. H., Gea., 2<J8, u. 52. 



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5 A genus, on account of little known flowers 

 very uncertain, " characterib. permult. Zan- 

 thoxylo quadrat" (B. H.), but with inodorous 

 and epunctuate leaves. It also seems to bear 

 some affinity to the MurycomcB among tbe 

 Simarubea as to the structure of leaves and 

 flowers, but tbe plant is not bitter. Flowers 

 generally polygamous, pericarp epunctuate. 

 Chiefly from description of Blume. 



6 Spec. 1. M. tomentosa Bl., loc. cit. 



7 In Adansunia, x. 32U. 



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