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alternipetalous (sterile or in female flower) inserted below disk ; 

 receptacle beyond insertion of androcenm more or less elongated and 

 dilated, in female flower often thick disciferous. Germen 2-8- 

 locular 1 (in male flower rudimentary minute, 2-8-partite or sub- 

 entire) ; style very short or more or less elongated, at apex stigma- 

 tiferous dilated, more or less lobed ; ovules in cells 2, descending ; 

 micropyle extrorse superior; fruit fleshy or coriaceous subglobose 

 punctuate, 2-S-locular ; cells 1, 2-spermous. Seed subangular; 

 testa coriaceous ; albumen fleshy ; embryo curved cotyledons oblong 

 foliaceous or linear ; shrubs often sarmentose, unarmed or aculeate ; 

 leaves alternate digitate 3-foliolate, or more rarely 4-xi -foliolate ; 

 folioles entire or crenate pellucid punctuate odoriferous ; flowers 2 in 

 more or less ramified cymiferous axillary and terminal racemes 

 (Trop. Co/it. and Ins. Asia, South- East. Cout. and Ins. Africa 2 ). 



VI. AMYEIDE^]. 



71. Amyris L. — Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamous; re- 

 ceptacle short conical, Calyx gamosepalous, 4-dentate, imbricated, 

 persistent. Petals 4, longer, imbricated, patent at anthesis. Sta- 

 mens 8, hypogynous ; filaments free ; the oppositipetalous shorter; 

 anthers intrcrse, 2-rimose. Germen (rudimentary or sterile in male 

 flower) surrounded at base by pulvinate or thickened disk (in male 

 flower 0, or small), 1-locular ; style terminal short, almost wanting, 

 capitate stigmatiferous at apex ; ovules 2, parietally inserted, col- 

 laterally descending ; micropyle extrorse superior. Drupe globose or 

 ovoid aromatic oily; putamen chartaceous, by abortion 1-spermous. 

 Seed descending; testa membranous; embryo exalbuminous ; 

 cotyledons thick plano-convex punctuate ; radicle superior short. — 

 Trees or shrubs, in all parts glandular-punctuate resinous-aromatic ; 

 leaves alternate and opposite, 1 -3-foliolate or iinparipinnate exsti- 

 pulate ; petiole and rachis sometimes marginate; folioles opposite 

 petiolulate entire or crenate ; flowers in terminal and axillary 



1 Colls oppositipetalous, while the gynrcceurn Prodr., i. 149. — Wight, III., t. 66. — Oliv., 

 is equal to the perianth. Fl. Trup. Afr., i. 306 (part.). — Hakv. & Sond., 



2 Small, whitish, lutescent, or virescent, some- Fl. Cap., i. 446. — Kl., in Pet. Mos., Bot„ i. 87 

 times odoriferous. (Vepris). — Tukcz., in Bull. ITosc. (185S), i. 



3 Spec, ahout 5, very variable. Wall., PI. 413. — Walp., Ann., vii. 52i), 530 (Vepris). 

 As. Ear., iii. 17, t. 232. — Wight & Akn., 



