31C NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



IG ? Tapirira Aubl.^ — Flowers polygamous, 4-5-merous, nearly 

 of Sorindcia and Notlioprotium ; sepals and petals imbricated. 

 Stamens twice as numerous as petals inserted below cupular disk. 

 Grermen in male flower 4-5-merous, more or less immersed in disk 

 and free from the style except at base; in female flower 1-locular; 

 styles thick, 3-5 truncate or capitellate stigmatiferous at apex ; ovule 

 inserted somewhat below apex of cell, descendent ; micropyle supe- 

 rior. Drupe compressed ; exalbuminous seed and other characters 

 of Sorindcia. — Erect or scandent trees or shrubs; leaves alternate, 

 imjiaripinnate ; folioles often opposite ; inflorescence of Sorindeia or 

 Sjwiidias. {Tropical Asia, Africa, and America.^) 



17 ? Hsematost aphis Hook, f.^ — Flowers dioecious 3-merous, 

 subregular or slightly ii-regular ; male calyx small, 3-fld, imbricated, 

 afterwards subvalvate. Petals 3, longer, often unequal, imbricated. 

 Stamens 6, 2-seriate ; filaments .slender, inserted outside between 

 2-fid, 3 lobes of interior disk ; 3, alternipetalous, much longer ; 

 anthers small, introrse, 2-rimose. Female flower ? Fruit drupa- 

 ceous oblong ; * putamen bony ; cell inwardly subcarinate ; seed 

 descendent ; embryo ? — A small glabrous tree ; leaves alternate 

 imparipinnate, collected at summit of twigs deciduous; folioles 

 alternate petiolulate oblong ; flowers * in elongated axillary racemes 

 much ramified " paniculate ; " pedicels bracteate at base. {Tropical 

 West Africa.'') 



18. Gluta L.'^ — Flowers hermaplu-odite, 4-6-or oftener 5-merous ; 

 calyx subspathaceousvalvate, unequally-broken, caducous. Petals usu- 



' Guian, i. (177.6), 470, t. ISS.^Joncr/iictia in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 5, xiv. 293.— Netto, in 



ScHiiEB. Got. (1789), 308.— rff;;(V!V( i.aen.{n?<'d), Ann. Sc. Nat. 8er. 5, v. 85, t. 9 (0«?i«a).— Oliv. 



372. — PoiK.in Lam/..Dict.vn.5S3.- — Lamk. III. t. i'l. trap. Afr. i. 445 {Odina). — Mia. Fl. Inil.- 



2%-i.—V)C. Prodi: ii. 90.— Endl. Gcii.n. 5943.— Hat. i. p. ii. 622 (0*»ff).— Walp. Rep. i. 5oU. 



B. H. Gen. 423, n. 20.— Maech. Anacard. 34, v.412 {Udina), 416 ; Ann.ii. 280 ; iii.843 {Odina) ; 



103. — Salaherria Neck. Elem. n. 985. — Pegia vii. 646 {Odina). 



CoLEBU. in Trnnf. Linn. S'jc. xt. 564. — Ctjrtn- 3 In Tians. Linn. Sue. xxiii. 169, t. 25.— B. 



earpa H. B. K. Nov. Oen. et Spec. vii. 20, H. Gen. 422, n. 18. — Makch. Anacard. 2'J, 



t. 609. — Odina Eoxb. Ft. Ind. ii. 293.— 100. 



Endl. Qm. n. 5898. — March, loc.cit. 38. — B.H. ■< " Vvt£ sanguinoaj subsimilia, edulis." 



Ocn. 423, 1001, n. li.—Phlebochiton Wall, in * Small, white. 



Trans. Med. fl Phil. Soc. C'alc. vii. 230.— Endl. <> Spec. 1. B. liartcri Hook. f. loc. cit.—Oi.i\. 



Gen,. Suppl. iii. 100. — Lannca GuiLL. ct Peke. Fl. trup. Afr. i. 443. — -Walp. Ann. vii. 646. 



Fl. Sen. Tent. \. 153, t. 4,2.—Hari>ep!ii/llum T Mantis'!. 293.— J. Gen. 4:27.-1)0. Prodr. i. 



Beenh. ox Kravss, in Flora (1844), 3-19.— 601.— Enl.l. Gen. n. 5911.— B. H. Gen. i21, n. 



7r/)//yfH iff (part.) Jungh. in «o/7' (1844), 624 10.— March. Anacard. 112, 189.— Si/ndesmis 



(ex Uassk. Cat. Sort. lioff. 247). Wall, in Ro.vb. Fl. Ind. ii. ZU.—Stagmaria 



■^ Spec, about 25. Harv. et So.nd. Fl. Cap Jack, Mai. Misc. ex. Moo/i. Comp, to Bat. Mag, 



i. a03 (Odina), i)2i{i[arpep/igtlHm).—rL.(;tTB. i. 267. 



