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NATURAL UISTORY OF PLANTS. 



5-sulcate, stigmatiferous at apex ; ovules in eacli cell 2, descending, 

 superposed ; micropyle extrorse superior. Berry ovoid, 5-locular ; 

 pericarp resinous-lacunose; seeds in cells 1, 2, nidulant ; outer coat 

 pulpy ; testa crustaceous ; albumen fleshy ; embryo axile, albu- 

 minous ; cotyledons wide, membranous ; radicle short, superior. — 

 Glabrous trees or shrubs; leaves alternate, simple or 3-foliolate, 

 coriaceous, minutely glandular-punctuate ; flowers in much ramified 

 terminal cymiferous racemes ; twigs and pedicels thick, articulate 

 (Brazil 1 ). 



02. Acronychia Forst. 2 — Flowers polygamous ; receptacle shortly 

 conical. Calyx short, usually 4-lobed, imbricated, sometimes 

 accrescent after anthesis. Petals 4, longer than calyx, valvate, 

 finally patent or revolute. Stamens 3, 2-seriate ; filaments inserted 

 outside below glandular conical disk, or 4 -S- agonal from impres- 

 sions of filaments, subulate, often ciliate ; anthers introrse, 2-rimose. 

 Germen free, often tomentose ; style terminal, more or less elon- 

 gated, at apex stigmatiferous, 4-sulcate or 4-lobed ; cells 4, opposi- 

 tipetalous ; ovules in each cell 2, descending, subcollateral or super- 

 posed ; micropyle extrorse, superior. Fruit dry or drupaceous, 

 indehiscing or sometimes loculicidally 4-valved, more rarely at apex 

 shortly 4-lobed, 4-agonal ; testa black ; albumen fleshy ; embryo 

 straight ; cotyledons flat, oblong ; radicle straight, superior. — Trees 

 or small trees ; leaves alternate or opposite, 1- or more rarely 

 3-foliolate; folioles entire, pellucid-punctuate ; flowers 3 in ramified 

 cymiferous racemes, sometimes corymbiform, axillary and terminal 

 (Trop. and Subtrop. Asia and Oceania*). 



03. Halfordia F. Muell. 8 — Flowers hermaphrodite (nearly of 

 Acronychia), 5-merous ; calyx short, cupuliform, 5 -dentate. Petals 



1 Spec. 2, 3. A. S. H., PI. Us. Bras., t. 17 j 

 Fl. Bras. Mer., i. 80. 



1 Char. Gen., 53, t. 27 (nee Hook.). — 

 Sciiott, Eutac, 3, t. 2, 3.— Ehdl., Gen., n. 

 5078.— B. H., Gen., 302, 992, n. 67.— Jam- 

 bolifera L., Gen., n. 479 (part.). — Ankenda 

 Hehm., Mus., 73 (ex Endl.). — Doriena 

 Dennst, Ilort. Malab., v. 15 (ex Endl.). — 

 Gin I. on;., Fl. CochincA., ed. olyssip. (1790), 

 232. — Cyminosma (.i;utx., Fruct., i. 280, t. 58. 

 - DC, Prodr., i. 722.— A. Jttss., in Mem. 

 Mus., xii. 105, t. 17, fig. 11. — Huouia Mox- 

 ajiucs., iu M6m. Acad. Lyon, x. 185. 



3 Whitish or yellowish, ordinary or small. 



'' Spec, ad 18. Labill., Sert. Austro-caled., 

 t. 65 (Lawsonia). — Wight, ///., 05 (Cymi- 

 nostna). — Miq., Fl. Ind.-Bat., Suppl., i. 532. — 

 P. Muell., Fragm., iv. 151; Fl. Vict., i. 96. — 

 A. Gkay, Unit. St. JSxpl. Exp., But., i. 233, t. 

 32-34.— Benth., Fl. Austral., i. 366.— Walp., 

 Rep., i. 261 (Cyminosma), 523 ; ii. 815; Ann., 

 \. 159; iv. 416; vii. 530. 



5 Fragm., v. 13, t. 36.— I'.. H., Gen., 992, n. 

 67 a. — 11. Bn., in Adausuuia, x. 328. 



