BUT 'ACE 'M. 507 



subsessile ; germens 1-locular; styles same in number, inserted at 

 internal angle of germen at or slightly above base, free, capitellate 

 stigmatiferous at apex ; ovules in each cell 2-5, collaterally descend- 

 ing, 1 incompletely anatropous ; micropyle extrorse, superior. Drupes 

 1 -5, free, slightly fleshy ; putamen hard ; embryo exalbuminous, 

 fleshy ; cotyledons convolute-plicate ; radicle short, superior. — Trees 

 (not bitter) ; branches slender ; leaves alternate, simple, petiolate ; 

 stipules minute, caducous ; flowers in few-flowered axillary ra- 

 cemes (?) ; pedicels slender, 2-bracteolate at base 2 {Subtroj). Australia*). 



104. Tariri Aubl. 4 — Flowers dioecious, 3-5-merous ; petals longer 

 than calyx, imbricated or subvalvate, more rarely 0. Stamens equal 

 in number to petals and opposite them (sterile in female flower). 

 Glands alternipetalous, equal in number to stamens, free or connate. 

 Gynseceum seated on summit of disk, 2, 3-merous ; germen single, 

 2-3-locular ; style erect, more or less long 2, 3-fid at apex ; lobes 

 recurved, inwardly stigmatiferous ; ovules in cells 2, collaterally de- 

 scending ; micropyle extrorse, superior, usually blocked with thick 

 obturator. Berry oliviform 1, 2-locular ; cells 1-spermous; seeds 

 descending ; testa thin ; embryo exalbuminous ; cotjdedons (?) undi- 

 vided, adhering to coats ; position of radicle . . . ? — Trees or shrubs 

 usually intensely bitter ; leaves alternate imparipinnate ; folioles 

 entire ; flowers 5 in spikes or racemes, usually elongated pendulous 

 cymiferous, terminal or leaf-opposed 6 [Trop. America}). 



105? Spathelia L. 8 — Flowers polygamous; receptacle convex. 

 Sepals 5, usually coloured, imbricated or subovate. Petals 5, alter- 



1 Sub 2-seriatis. 6 A genus nearly related to Spathelia, Bur- 



2 A genus nearly rel ited by its flowers to seracea, Chailletia, and 2-ovulate Fuplwrbiacece. 

 Picrasma and Suriana. By 1-carpellary species, 7 Spec, ad 20. Tui., in Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 

 strongly pointing to Cneoridium, only dis- 3, vii. 257. — Benth., Sidph. Voy., Bot., 166 

 tinguislied from it by ovules and seeds. Some- (Cieca). — Seem., Voy. He)-., Bot., 95, t. 24 

 what related to Hypliandra by ninre polygamous {Picramnia). — Pl., in Hook. Lond. Joum., v. 

 species. 578. — Giuseb., Ft. Brit. W.-lnd., 14 (Pi- 



3 Spec. 2. F. Muell., loc. cit. — Benth., cramnid). — Tb., loc. cit., 354 {Picramnia). — 

 Fl. Austral., i. 374. — Waip., Ann., vii. 540. Walp., Ann., i. 168; iv. 429; vii. 512 (Pi- 



4 Guian., Suppl., 37, t. 390 (1775). — Tb., in cramnia). 



Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 5, xv. 353. — Picramnia Sw ., 8 Gen., n. 373. — J., Gen., 371. — PoiK., 



Prodr., (17S3), 27; Fl. Lid. Occ, i. (1797), Diet., vii. 309.— Lauk., III., t. 200.— G.ektx., 



217, t. 4. — Schreb., Gen.,n. 1517.— J., Gen., Fruct., i. 278, t. 58. — K., in Ann. Sc. Nat., 



370. — Endl., Gen., n. 5941. — B. EL., Gen., si'r. 1, ii. 357. — DC, Prodr., ii. 84. — Endl., 



315, n. 28. — H. Bn., in Adansonia, xi. fuse. 1. Gen., n. 5979. — B. H., Gen., 315. — Spathe P. 



5 Small, somewbat purple or virescent. Br., Jam., 187. 



