498 NATURAL niSTOIiY OF PLANTS. 



conical, more or less sulcate column, stigmatiferous, thickened or 

 not so at apex; ovules in germens solitary, descending;; micropyle 

 extrorse, superior. Drupes 5 (or by abortion fewer), seated on com- 

 mon receptacle; endocarp more or less thick and hard; coats of 

 solitary cell-like seed thin; embryo exalbuminous thick; cotyledons 

 amygdaloid, plano-convex, equal or unequal ; radicle superior, very 

 short, retracted, usually cuboid. — Intensely bitter trees or shrubs ; 

 leaves alternate, imparipinnate, or more rarely 1-3-foliolate ; folioles 

 opposite, entire ; rachis more or less articulate between juga ; flowers 

 in terminal and axillary racemes, simple or oftener ramified, often 

 cymiferous ; pedicels articulate, bracteolate {Tropical America and 

 Africa) . See p. 411. 



86. Simaruba Aubl. 1 — Flowers dioecious, nearly of Quassia (or 

 Aritha) ; calyx short, 5-dentate or 5-lobed, imbricated. Petals free, 

 patent at apex, contorted. Stamens 10 (effete in female flower), 

 inwardly appendiculate ; receptacle dilated be} T ond insertion, de- 

 pressed, subhemispherical. Carpels 5 (of Quassia), seated on summit 

 of receptacle (sterile in male flower). Drupes 1-5, sessile, patent, 

 and seed of Quassia. — Bitter trees ; leaves alternate pinnate, folioles 

 alternate entire ; flowers 2 in axillary terminal simple or more or less 

 ramified cymiferous racemes {Tropical America?). 



87. Hannoa Pl. 4 — Flowers nearly of Quassia (or Aruba) poly- 

 gamous-dioecious, 4-merous ; male calyx at first closed, afterwards 

 unequally 2, 3-parted, torn. Petals 5, contorted or imbricated, inte- 

 rior villous. Stamens 10 (sterile in female flower), inwardly enlarged 

 in scales inserted below depressed-10-crenate dilatation of receptacle 

 where 4-6 carpels of Quassia (sterile in male flower) are placed. 

 Drupes 1-0, oblong, subreniform ^small fleshy; seed and embryo 

 of Quassia. — A small bitter tree; leaves alternate imparipinnate; 

 folioles long petiolulate coriaceous glandular at apex ; flowers 5 



1 Guian., ii., 856, t. 331,332.— EC, in Ann. vi. 16.— A. S. H., PI. Us. Bras., t. 5; Fl. 

 Mas., xvii. 423; Prodr., i. 733.— A. Juss., in Bras. Mer., i. 70. — Gkiseb., Fl. Brit' W- 



m '''"-< *»■ 514, t. 27, fig. 44.— Spacii, Ltd., 139.— Ciiapm., Fl. S. Unit. St. 67.— 



Suit, a Buffon, ii. 371. — Endl,, Gen., n. Seem., Voy. Her., Bot., 95.— Te., in Ann,. Se 



5LS63.-B. II., Gen., 309, n. 5. Nat., ser. 5, xv. 357.— Walp., Ann., i. 163 i 



2 Small, ordinary. vii. 537. 



3 Spec. 3, 4. Lamk., III., t. 343, fig. 2 « In Hook. Loud. Journ., v. 566 — B H., 

 (Quassia).— Gjeetn., Fruct., i. 340, t. 70, fig. 1 Gen., 308, n. 3. 



(Quassia). — H. B. K„ Nov. Gen. et Spec, 5 Small, white, odoriferous. 



