TEREBINTHACEX. 311 



membranous contortuplicate ; radicle short superior. — Troos or bal- 

 samic shrubs; branches often spinescent; loaves alternate, i-3-folio- 

 late or imparipinnate ; foliolcs entire or serrate ; flowers axillary or 

 lateral, shortly or long racemose ; racemes sometimes fasciculate, 

 cymiferous, more or less ramified and composite. [South West, and 

 Tropical Cont. and ins. East. Asia.^) 



7? Dasycarya Liebm.'-. -- Flowers polygamous; receptacle 

 shortly cupular, clothed inwardly with disk 10-crenate at margin 

 annular clasping base of germen. Sepals 5, free or scarcely 

 connate at base, valvate, persistent. Petals 6, alternate, longer, in- 

 duplicate-valvate or scarcely imbricated. Stamens 10, 2-seriate 

 verticillate ; filaments exterior to disk fi'ee ; alternijietalous slightly 

 longer; anthers introrse, 2-rimose. Germen (rudimentary in male 

 flower) free ; style short, stigmatiferous at apex, 3-5-lobed ; cells 

 2 -ovulate ; ovules collaterally descendent incompletely anatro^^ous 

 subfalcate ; micropyle extrorse superior. Drupe scantily fleshy rather 

 villose ; putamen usually 3-locular ; seeds in cells 1-3 solitary ; 

 radicle of exalbuminous rather thick embryo superior infiexed. — A 

 tree grey or tawny -haii'ed ; leaves alternate collected at summit of 

 twigs imparipinnate; folioles opposite, very shortly petiolulate, 

 entire acuminate ; flowers in axillary slender alternately cymiferous 

 spikes. (Mc.vi'co.^) 



8 ? Paiveusea Welav.* — Flowers dioecious apetalous ; male calyx 

 minutely oblique or gibbous, unequally-6-8-lobed, imbricated. Sta- 

 mens 6-8, inserted round crenate disk ; filaments free thin ; anthers 

 basifixed short ; cells 2-laterally rimose. Female calyx larger than 

 male. Germen free, 2-locular, surrounded at base by six stam^odes 

 ciliate hypogynous, sometimes connate in ring ; branches of short 

 style 2, reniform stigmatiferous at apex ; ovules in cells 2-nate de- 

 scendent ; micropyle extrorse superior.^ Fruit (immature) stipate by 



' Spec, about 15, Forsk. Deser. JEij.-Arab. {Bahamodendron) ; ii. 830; Ann. ii. 289 {Bal- 



79 {Amtjris). — Roxit. Fl. Ind. ii. 244 [Amyria). samodendron) ; vii. 546 [Balxamodendron), 547 



— AuN. in Ann. Nut. Hist. iii. 87. — Hauv. et [Balmmophlmos), G48 (Hilzeria). 



SoND. Fl. Cap. i. 526 {Bahamodcndron) . — ^ In Viddensk. Meddcl. Kjohmh. (1853), 98.— 



KoTScii. et Peyk. in fl. Tinn. ii. t. 5, B. — B. II. (?«(. 427, n. 38.— March, ^xocffrrf. 160. 



Hook. v. in Koulc. Kciv Joum. i. 259, t. 8, 9.^ •* Spec. 1. D. grisca Libum. Inc. cit. — Wali". 



Scii'i\-Ei.vi-. Beitr. Fl. JEth. i. 30.— Oi.iv. Fl. Ann. iv. 447. 



Trop. Afr. i. 324 [Bahnmodcndron), 328 [Hem- ' in Trans. Linn. Snc. xxvii. 20, t. 7.— B. II. 



prielnn), 450 {[lilzeriu). — 11. Bn. in Adnnsonia, Gen. 993, n. 5 n. 



xi. 180.— Wai,!'. Itcp. i. 557 [Protium), 558 '• Obturated ? 



