TEREBINTHACEM. 317 



ally 5, the margins inserted vertically on elongate o-agonal receptacle ; 

 but the micklle internal face of the stalk free ; ' limb contorted or more 

 rarely imbricated, finally patent. Stamens equal in number to petals 

 iilternating with them ; filaments superposed to spurs of receptacle, 

 inserted higher, otherwise fr'ee; anthers introrse, 2-rimose. Germen 

 stipitate oblique subglobose slightly gibbous ; style eccentric erect, 

 simple, stigmatiferous at apex ; ovule in cell 1 -basilar descendent 

 from summit of funicle. Fruit subbaccate, corticate deformed, hence 

 sulcate ; seed conformed to cell with accrescent testa ; ' cotyledons 

 of exalbuminous embryo connate ; radicle short obtuse incurved. — 

 Trees ; leaves alternate petiolate simple oblong coriaceous ; flowers ^ 

 in much ramified-compound axUlary and terminal racemes. {Intl. 

 Arch. Malacassia.^) 



19. Swintonia Griff.' — Flowers hermaphi-odite ; lobes of small 

 calyx, round imbricated. Petals 5, longer, adnate to base of cyHu- 

 ch'ical receptacle elongated between them and insertion of stamens 

 and calyx, imbricated, much accrescent. Stamens 5, alternipetalous 

 hypogynous free ; anthers introrse, 2-rimose. Germen sessile on 

 summit of ovoid receptacle, 1 -locular ; style straight, disciform 

 stigmatiferous at apex ; ovule basilar suspended from summit of 

 funicle. Fi-uit cb-upaeeous subch-y ('?), petals accrescent foliaceoiis 

 stipate ; seed ? — A large glabrous tree ; leaves alternate simple 

 oblong-lanceolate entii-e pellucid-punctiiate ; flowers in large terminal 

 much racemose-compound clusters. {Malaisia^ Sumatra.^) 



20. Melanorrhoea Wall.'^ — Flowers hermaphrodite (nearly of 

 Sivinioniu) ; sepals 5, valvate, unequally-cut in calyx or calyptrate 

 deciduous coherent. Petals elongate, contorted or imbricated, 

 accrescent after anthesis ; stamens co sometimes very numerous, 

 inserted on receptacle, tUlated at base into a thick disk ; filaments 

 slender erect ; anthers introrse. Germen stipitate oblique, 1 -locular ; 

 style simple, stigmatiferous not dilated at apex ; ovule basilar 



' Receptacle laterally clothed with the same «?««. 421, 1001, n. 14.— IMabch. Aiiacard. Ill, 



numher. 188. — Aslropetalum Gkifk. Nottil. iv. 411. — 



- •' Succo balsameo atro farcta." Ananxopctalum Teysm. ct BiNx. in Joitrii. But. 



■■' Fla\-id or ochraceiis." Neerl. i. 308. 



' Spec. 6, 7. Bl. in Flora (1825) ; Bijdi: ^ Spec. 1. S.Jlorida Griff, loc. eit. 



1159; Mits. Lugd.-Bat. 182, t. 39.— Mw. Fl. ' PL As. Mar. i. 9, t. 11, 12.— Endl. Gcii. n. 



Lid.-Bat.l p. ii. 622.— Walp. Map. i. 5.5.5; v. 5910.— B.H. Ge». 421,n. 13.— March, yfjiaracrf. 



415; ^«H. ii. 283. 114, 187. 



' " In Duchtre Jttv. Bot. ii. 330."— B. H. 



