510 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



ceous, petiolate; flowers 1 in terminal and axillary compound-ramified 

 racemes 2 (Trop. West. Africa'). 



109. Soulamea Lamk. 4 — Flowers potygamous, 3-merous, more 

 rarely 4-5-merous ; receptacle short. Sepals free or connate at 

 base, valvate or imbricated. Petals same in number, alternate 

 longer, usually linear-patent, imbricated or subvalvate. Stamens 

 double in number to petals, 2-seriate (in female flower sterile or 0) ; 

 filaments free, naked; anthers short extrorse, 2-rimose. Glands 

 opposite petals, equal in number to them, thick subtruncate, some- 

 times unequally lobed. Germen (in male flower rudimentary or 

 oftener 0) free, compressed, 2-locular ; styles 2, short distant, 

 capitate, recurved, stigmatiferoas at apex; ovules solitary in cells, 

 descending, incompletely anatropous ; micropyle extrorse, superior. 

 Fruit indehiscent, obcordate, dry, coriaceous, marginally winged; 

 wings short, thick or wide, submembranous, veined ; endocarp lig- 

 neous, 2-locular. Seeds solitary in cells, affixed at middle or de- 

 scendent ; testa membranous ; albumen thin ; embryo inverse ; 

 cotyledons elliptical or oblique oblong; radicle short, superior. — 

 Bitter glabrous or villous trees and shrubs ; leaves alternate, long 

 petiolate, simple 3-foliolate or imparipinnate ; flowers 5 in spikes or 

 racemes, simple, axillary, cymiferous [Warm Subtrop. Oceania'). 



110? Amaroria A. Gray/ — Flowers 1 -sexual, male nearly of 

 Soulamea, " 3-merous, 3-androus ; stamens alternipetalous ; anthers 

 subsessile ; 3 lobes of fleshy disk 2-fid." Female flowers 4, 5-merous ; 

 sepals short, persistent, and petals same in number, alternate narrow 

 patent. Staminodes (?) 5-10, inserted below thick crenate disk. 

 Germen excentric, unequally-ovid, 1-locular; ovule 1, descending, 

 incompletely anatropous ; micropyle extrorse, superior ; style short, 



1 Small, odoriferous, whitish or yellow. Gen., 313, n. 22. — Cardiocarpus Reinw., in 



2 A genus scarcely of this series, hence agree- Syll. PI. Ralisb., ii. 14. — Cardiophora 

 nig with Balanite by its insipid epunctua.e Benth., in Hook. Lond. Journ., ii. 216. 

 leaves, its insertion of gynaiceum, and its s Minute. 



drupaceous fruit ; whence better perhaps con- 6 Species about 8, 1 of Molucca (Rex ama~ 



net-led with Burseracece. roris Rumph.), most of warm southern regions. 



3 Spec. 2 (v. 3, 4, quar., of which 2 are 3m- Hassk., in Bull. Soc. Bot. de Fr., x. 374. — Be. & 

 perfectly known). Oliv., Ft. Trop. Afr., i. Ge., in Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 5, hi. 229; in Nouo. 

 313. — Walp., Ann , vii. 511. Arch. Mm:, iv. t. 37. — Walp., Ann., i. 168; 



4 Diet., i. 449. — J., Gen., 129.— DC, Prodr.. vii. 541. 



i. 335 (Polygale(e).—A. S. H., et Moq., in 7 Unit. St. Fxpl. Fxped., Bot., 337, t. 40.— 



Mem. Mus., xix. 334. — Endl., in Ann. Wien. B. H.. Gen., 314, n. 23. 

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