TEREBINTH ACEM. 315 



ramified compoimcl-cymifcrous racemes, axillary or terminal. [South 

 America.) Sec p. 206. 



14. Sorindea Dup.-Th.^ — Flowers hermaphi-odite or polygamous- 

 dioecious (nearly of Schinus), 4, -5-merous ; lobes of lobate or den- 

 tate calyx later not contiguous. Petals longer, valvate. Stamens 

 4, 5, alternipetalous (in female flower sterile) or in male flower 8-20, 

 inserted from base to middle of annular, or cupular thick disk ; 

 filaments free unequal subulate ; anthers introrse, 2-rimose. Gor- 

 men free (in male flower minute or 0), 1-locular; style thick, stig- 

 matiferous .3-lobed at apex ; ovule subbasUar or laterally inserted, 

 suspended from summit of funicle, and more or less high adnate to 

 walls of germen {3Iauria^); micropyle superior, usually more or 

 less obturated from dilatation of summit of funicle. Drupe more 

 or less compressed ; eudocarp chartaceous or filamentose ; embryo of 

 inverse seeds exalbuminous ; cotyledons thick-fleshy; radicle 

 superior. — Trees or small trees ; leaves alternate, simple or oftener 

 pin:iate, flowers ^ in compound axillary and terminal racemes. {Trap. 

 America^ Africa^ and Oceania.*) 



1-5. Solenocarpus WiGnT & Arn.^ — Flowers nearly of («S(:>r/«(7(>/a) 

 hermaphrodite, 5-meroi;s ; calyx dentate, imbricated. Petals 5, 

 valvate. Stamens 10, 2-seriate, inserted below disk. Germen 1- 

 locular ; style simple thickly clavat;^, oblique truncate stigmatiferous 

 at apex ; ovule descendent nearly from apex of cell ; micropyle 

 superior. Drupe oblique oblong truncate ; mesocarp oily ; putamen 

 bony ; seed linear ; cotyledons of exalbuminous fleshy embryo, linear ; 

 radicle superior short. — A tree ; leaves alternate imparipinnate 

 collected at summit of twigs ; folioles opposite ; terminal 

 inflorescence and other characters of Sorindeiaf' {Eastern India.'') 



1 Dup.-Th. Om.Nov. Madag. 23.— K. 'mAnn. vii. 11, t. 605, 606 (iIf«Mm).— Wiqht et Aim. 

 Sc. Xat. ser. 1, ii. 342.— DC. Prodr. ii. 80.— Prmb: i. 170.— Hook. Bot. Misc. iii. 175.— Tb. 

 Spach, Suit, a Buffoii, ii. 245. — Endl. Geii. n. et Pl. in Ann. Sc. Not. ser. 5, xiv. 290 

 5895. — B. n. Gen. 419, n. 4. — March. Anncnrd. (Waiiria). — Torr. in Emor. Pep. But. t. 7 

 i2, U7.—Diq>uisia Rich. GuiLL. et F err. Fl. [Lithraa). —Oj,ia. Fl. trop. Aft: i. 439, 444 

 Sen. Tent. i. 148, t. 38.— Endl. Gen. n. 6894. (Trichosciipha). — Benth. Fl. Austrai. i. 490 

 — Euroschinxs HoOK. f. Oai. 4£2, n. 16. — Tii- {Euroschinus). — WAhv. Rep.i. ill, il3 {Mauria) 

 choseypha Hook. f. op. cit. 423, n. 21 (ex 550; v. 411, 412; Ann. i. 199 {Afauria) ; ii. 

 March.). 280 ; iv. 446 {Maitria). 



2 K. in Ann. Sc. Nat. s&T. 1, ii. 338.-1)0. » Prodr. 171.— Endl. Gen. n. 5900.— B. U. 

 Prodr. ii. 73.— Exdl. Gen. n. 6903,— March. Gen. 422, n. 19.— March. Anacard. 116, 192. 

 he. cit. 46. — ^B. II. Gen. 426, n. 34. — Lithnna " A genus allied to Sorindcia, having the 

 MiERS, Trnr. Chil. ii. 529. — Endl. Gin. n. same ju'rianth and sometimes the same andro- 

 5904 (part.). — B. H. Gen. 418 (Rhus). — March. ccum, difl'ering by simple germen and simple 

 foe. cit. 93, 184. stylo. 



^ Small, white, yellow or purplish. ' Spec. 1, «S'. Indica Wight ct Arn. loc cit. 



* Spec, about 25. H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Spec. 



