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107. Harrisonia E. Br. 1 — Flowers hermaphrodite ; calyx short, 

 4, 5-fid. Petals 4, 5, longer, rather thick, valvate. Stamens 8-10, 

 inserted round annular or shortly cupular {Lasiolepis") disk ; fila- 

 ments free, enlarged at base in scales, entire or shortly 2 -fid ; 

 the oppositipetalous slightly shorter ; anthers introrse, 2-rimose. 

 Germen free ; cells 4, 5, oppositipetalous, more or less prominent 

 at back ; styles same in number, connate or free at base, stigma- 

 tiferous slightly dilated at apex ; ovule in cells solitary, descending ; 

 micropyle extrorse, superior. Drupe globose or depressed, with 

 2-5-pyrena ; pyrena perforated, 1-spermous ; seeds curved ; testa 

 rather thick ; embryo scantily albuminous ; 3 cotyledons conduplicate 

 at middle ; radicle short, superior. — Glabrous 4 spinescent shrubs ; 

 spines often 2-nate ; leaves alternate, 1-3-foliolate or imparipinnate ; 

 folioles entire or few-dentate ; flowers in axillary cymes ; pedicels 

 bracteolate at base {Australia, Malay. Arch!'). 



108? Irvingia Hook, f. 6 — Flowers hermaphrodite, 4-5-merous ; 

 sepals short, free, connate at base, imbricated. Petals longer, im- 

 bricated, patent. Stamens 8-10, 2-seriate ; filaments inserted below 

 thick elevated pulviform disk, free ; more or less plicate in bud ; the 

 oppositipetalous shorter ; anthers short, introrse, 2-rimose. Germen 

 seated at summit of depressed disk, 2-locular ; style simple, curved 

 in bud, stigmatiferous more or less capitellate at apex ; ovule in 

 each cell solitary, descending, incompletely anatropous ; micropyle 

 extrorse, superior. Drupe thick, ligneous, oblong or shortly ovate, 

 compressed ; flesh scanty ; putamen hard ; albumen fleshy, copious 7 

 or ; 8 embryo inverse; cotyledons 9 flat, foliaceous or plano-convex, 

 amygdaloid; radicle short, superior. — Glabrous insipid epunctuate 

 trees ; branches annulate at nodes ; bud blocked by axillary stipules, 

 convolute in acuminate more or less curved cone (finally marked 

 with the annular cicatrix) ; leaves alternate, simple, entire, coria- 



1 Ex A. Jr/SS., in Mem. Mus., 517, xii. t. 28, — Benth., Fl. Austral, i. 376.— Walp., Ann., 

 fig. 47 (nee Adans., nee Hook.). — Endl., Gen., i. 165. 



n. 5967. — B. H., Gen., 314, n. 25. — Ebelingia 6 In Trans. Linn. Soc, xxiii. 167. — B. H., 



Reicub., Comp., 199. Gen., 314, 993, n. 24. — H. Bn., in Adamonia, 



2 Benn., PI. Jav. Ra*„ 202, t. 42.— Pl., in viii. 91. 



Hook. Bond. Journ., v. 570. "' In 7. Smithii Hook, p., the cotyledons of 



3 Greenish. which are foliaceous. 



4 Dry nigrescent. 8 In I. Gabonensi (H. Bn., loc. cit. — /. Bar- 



5 Spec. 2, 3. Gaudich., in Freycin. Voy., terl Hook, p.), with plano-convex cotyledons. 

 Bot., t. 103.— Miq., Fl. Ind.-Bat., Suppl., 209. 9 In I. Smithii virescent. 



