BUTACEJE. 519 



XIII ? COEIAEIE^]. 



125. Coriaria Nissol. — Flowers regular, hermaphrodite or poly- 

 gamous ; receptacle depressed conical. Sepals 5, imbricated per- 

 sistent. Petals 5, alternate, usually shorter than sepals, interior 

 carinate, fleshy, accrescent after anthesis. Stamens 10, 2-seriate ; 

 filaments usually free, or sometimes 5 (exterior) adnate to keel of 

 petals, hypogynous or subhypogynous ; anthers (effete in female 

 flower) introrse, 2-rimose. Carpels 5, alternipetalous, or more 

 rarely 6-10 free, inserted at summit of receptacle. Grermen free 

 (effete in male flower) ; styles same in number ; free, long, flexuous, 

 everywhere stigmatiferous ; ovules solitary in cells descending ; 

 mi cropyle introrse superior. Fruit of 5-10 cocci, included in fleshy 

 petals, finally compressed to solute receptacle, scarcely drupaceous, 

 finally dry ; seeds descendent ; testa membranous ; albumen ? thin 

 membranous, sometimes hard ; embryo ovate compressed fleshy ; 

 cotyledons plano-convex ; radicle short superior. — Unarmed shrubs, 

 sometimes sarmentose ; branches angular ; buds squamose ; leaves 

 opposite or 3-nate, entire, 1-5 -nerved, exstipulate ; flowers axillary, 

 solitary or in racemes sometimes densely flowered ; pedicels brac- 

 teate, or sometimes folio-stipitate {Med. Reg. Temp. Asia, South- West. 

 America, and N. Zealand). See p. 432. 



XIY. SURIANEiE. 



126. Surianea Plum. — Flowers hermaphrodite; receptacle sub- 

 plane at apex. Sepals 5, imbricated, persistent. Petals same in number 

 alternate, very short unguiculate, imbricated or contorted. Stamens 

 19, 2-seriate; filaments free ; anthers short sub-2-dymous, introrsely 

 rimose (in shorter stamens), oppositipetalous, sometimes wanting. 

 Carpels 5 opposite petals, free ; germen shortly stipitate, ] -locular ; 

 style inserted at base of internal angle, slightly thickened, stigma- 

 tiferous at apex ; ovules in cells 2, collateral, descending, very in- 

 completely anatropous ; raphe very short introrse inferior ; mi- 

 cropyle extrorse superior. Fruit-carpels 5 (or fewer) furnished with 

 persistent styles and calyx, drupaceous ; mesocarp thin rather fleshy ; 

 putamen 1 -locular; seed ascendent rather compressed, campylo- 

 tropous ; embryo exalbuminous uncinate ; cotyledons rather flat, 



