288 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



follows that the Phytocrenew, inseparable on the whole from the 

 Mapjnece, ought, by connection, to be put in the same family. 

 This is then found divided in five series or tribes whose distinctive 

 characters are as follow : 



I. SpoNDiEiE.^ — Gynajceum, formed of many carpels, independent or 

 united in their ovary. Cells 1 -ovulate. Ovules descendent, with supe- 

 rior and interior micropyle. Seeds exalbumiaous. Leaves simple 

 or compound. — 3 genera. 



II. BuESEREiE.- — Gynasceumwith many carpels (2-G) united below 

 iu a plm-ilocular ovary. Cells 2-ovulate. Ovules descendent, supe- 

 rior and exterior micropyle. Seeds exalbuminous. Leaves com- 

 pound, 1-co -foliolate. — 9 genera. 



III. ANACARDiEiE.'^ — Gyufeceum with one or more carpels, only 

 one of them fertile in the ovary. Siugle cell 1 -ovulate. Ovule 

 having very variable direction,* always having the micropyle directed 

 upwards primatively. Seeds with but little abundant albumen or 

 none. Leaves simple and compound. — 29 genera. 



IV. MAPPiEiE.5 — Gyna3ceum with one or more'' carpels, only one 

 amongst them (rarely two or three) fertile in the ovary. Single cell, 

 1- or more often 2-ovulate. Ovules descendent, with interior and 

 superior micropyle. Seeds with entire or lobate albumen, embryo very 

 small or developed, and provided with large and foliaceous cotyledons. 

 Leaves simple. — 15 genera. 



Y. Phytocrene^.'^ — Gynaeceum constructed like that of Mappiece. 



> Spondiacem K. in Ann. 8c. Nat. ser. 1, ii. close up to the summit. Accordingly it becomes 



362. — Endl. Oen. 1 134. — J. G. Agardh, Tlieor. with age more or less ascendent or descendent, 



Syst. 220. — Spondkce {Anacardiaceai trib. 2) B. a direction which has not, in consequence, much 



H. Gen. 417, 426 (part.). value and which also depends on whether the 



2 Burserna'w K. in Ann. So. Nat. loc. cit. 333. support of the orule may be longer or shorter, 

 — DC. Prodr. ii. 75. — LiNDL. Introd. ed. 2, 110. and carrj' back the insertion of the umbilicus 

 — Endl. Gen. 1135, Ord. 246. — B. H. Geii. to a greater or less heigth. 



321, Ord. 42. — J. G. Ag. op. cit. 219. — March. '^ H. Bn. in Adansonia, ui. 354 ; x. 261, xi. 



in Adansonia, viii. 17. — Bakek, Fl. Maurit. 43. 187. — Icaeinea Benth. ex Lindl. Veg, Kingd. 



— Ami/ridea R.Bii. Coiiffo, loe, cit. — Ami/ridacca: 444 {Olacacece sect.).— B. H. Gen. 344, 330 



Lindl. F<;^. -ffV»i7<^. (1846), 459, Ord. 171. [Olacinca trib. 3). — Icacinacece Miees, Con- 



3 Casxmiieoe (v. Anacardcce) R. Br. Congo, he. trib. i. 34, 48. 



cU. — Aiiacardiacece Lindl. Introd. ed. 2, 166 ; ^ Generally three. 



Teg. Kilujd. 465, Ord. 174.— Endl. Gen. 1127, " Endl. Gen. 828.— R. Bk. in £cnn. Fl. Jav. 



Ord. 245.— B. H. Oen. 416, Ord. 63. — L. Bar. 244.— B. H. ffc«. 354 (Otoci'w. trib. 4).— 



March. Bes Tcic/iinthacics [Anacard.') . . .Paris H. Bx. in DC. Prodr. xvii. 7. — Artncarpearum 



(1869). — Baker, Fl. Maurit. 61. — Sumaeliincm gen. Bl. Bijdr. 483. — Lindl. Yeg. Kingd. 271. 



DC. Frodr. ii. 66. — Thecul, in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, viii. 147 



■• It is inserted in the internal angle of the (nee 148, in not.). — P Cardiopteridcw R. Br. loc. 



cell, but at a very variable point (and that often cit. 248. — Bl. Rumphia, iii. 205. — Sohnizl. 



in the same type) of its length, from the base leonogr. fasc. 14, — H. Bn. Frodr. he. cit. 25. 



