BUTACE2E. 511 



soon unequally capitate, stigmatiferous, hence sulcate. " Drupe 

 dry, nuciform, ovoid, subcompressed ; putamen osseous ; seed amphi- 

 tropous, exalbuminous; embryo fleshy; cot3 T ledons ovate, flat; radicle 

 very short, superior." — Very bitter small trees; leaves alternate, 

 simple, elongated, entire, petiolate ; flowers' in axillary compound 

 racemes 2 {Fiji Islands*). 



111? Kceberlinia Zucc. 4 — Flowers hermaphrodite; receptacle 

 shortly conical. Sepals 4, small, free, imbricated, deciduous. Petals 

 same in number, alternate, con volute-imbricate, deciduous. Stamens 

 8, 2-seriate ; filaments free ; anthers ovate, introrsely 2~rimose. 

 Germen stipitate, 2-locular ; style subulate, obtuse stigmatiferous 

 at apex ; ovules ex, inserted on dissepiment, <x -seriate, descendent 

 or subtransverse. Fruit subbaccate, subglobose, apiculate with 

 persistent style ; pericarp thinly fleshy, interior pulpy, oligosper- 

 mous. Seeds descending, " carinate-cochleate ; testa crustaceous, 

 rugulose-striolate ; albumen thin ; eml)ryo annular ; radicle supe- 

 rior." — A subaphyllous shrub, ramified, eglandular, glabrous; 

 branches crowded, spinescent ; leaves alternate, minute, squami- 

 form, caducous ; flowers 5 in short racemes placed below apex of 

 lateral branches 6 {Texas, Mexico'). 



X. CNEOBE.E. 



112. Cneorum L. — Flowers hermaphrodite, 4- or oftener 3- 

 merous ; receptacle shortly columnar, exterior glandular. Sepals 

 small, more or less connate at base, persistent, in pra?floration not 

 contiguous. Petals same in number, longer, imbricated, caducous. 

 Stamens equal in number to petals, and alternate with them ; 

 filaments inserted in pits of disk, free, subulate ; anthers in- 

 trorse, 2-rimose. Germen placed at summit of receptacle ; cells 

 prominent, opposite petals, equal in number to them; style central, 



i Small. 5 Small, white. 



2 A genus scarcely distinct. Is it not rather 6 A genus enumerated at the end of Pltto- 

 a form of Soulamea ; second cell of germen sporum (ENi/i.) or Simaruiea (H. H.). It also 

 abortive ? appears somewhat allied to Zygophyllum. 



3 Spec. 1. A. sov.lamoidis A. Ghat, loc. cit. 7 S^ec. 1. K. spinosa Zucc, loc. oil. — A. 



4 In Flora (1832), Beibl., ii. 73, 74; in Gkav, PI. Wright., i. 30 j ii. 2G.— \Vali\, H^k, 

 Milnch. Denslc. (1S38), ooS. — Enpi ., Gen., n. i. 25S. 



5670.— B. II., Gen., 315, n. 30 



