318 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



suspended from funicle. Fruit long stipitate, enlarged at base by- 

 stellate patent foliaceous mucli accrescent petals, subglobose, reniform 

 or depressed, indeliiscent. Cotyledons of thick seed conformed 

 to cell, plano-convex ; radicle short accumbent ascendent. — Large 

 trees with varnish like sap ; leaves alternate simple entii-e coriaceous 

 exstipulate ; flowers ^ in axillary much compound-ramified racemes. 

 (Maluisia, Bornea, Birmah.^) 



'21. Astronium Jacq.^ — Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamous 

 (nearly oi Mclanorrhoea) ; sepals 5, or orbicular (coloured), imbricated, 

 finally accrescent and scarious, persistent round base of fruit. 

 Petals 5, alternate, sometimes in female flower small squamiform, 

 imbricated. Stamens 5, alternipetalous, inserted below base of 

 annular .5-lobed disk; filaments free short; anthers (eff'ete in female 

 flower), introrse, 2-rimose. Gormen sessile, 1-locular; style 

 branches 3, short; inserted at summit of germen, stigmatiferous at 

 apex ; ovule descendent from wall of cell near apex ; micropyle 

 superior. Fruit drupaceous or coriaceous, oblong or subglobose 

 rostrate, involucratc with foliaceous calyx ; testa of oblong seed 

 membraneous ; radicle of exalbuminous embryo short straight accum- 

 bent ; cotyledons straight plano-convex. — Large trees ; leaves alter- 

 nate imparipiunate, folioles opposite, entire or creuate ; flowers * 

 crowded in much ramified-compound axillary and terminal racemes. 

 {South trap. Cont. America and Antilles.'') 



22. Parishia Hook, Jun.'^ — Flowers (nearly of Astronium) 4- 

 merous ; sepals valvate. Petals oblong, erose, imbricated. Fruit 

 ovoid tomentose, surrounded by 4 large obtuse veined sepals. Other 

 characters of Astronium. — A choice tree ; leaves alternate impari- 

 piunate ; folioles GO, alternate petiolate coriaceous; inflorescence 

 large (ferruginous-tomentose) nutant. {Malaisia.'' ) 



2-3. Loxostylis Spreng.' — Flowers polygamous ; sepals 5, lanceo- 



' Medium. — March, in Aftr. VidJ. Medd. KJob. (1873), 



= Spec. 3, 4. Walp. Ecp. i. 555. 413.— "Walv. Ann. vii. 646. 



' S/!)-;;. ^»;<!)-. 2Gl,t. 181, fig. 96.— K.in^MH. " In Tiaiis. Linn. Soe. xxiii. 169, t. 26.— B. 



Sc. Nat. ser. 1, ii. 341.— DC. Prodr. ii. 65.— H. Ocn. 424, n. 24. 



Endl. Ocn. n. 5909.— B. H. Gen. 423, 1000, n. ' Spec. 1. P. insignis Hook. p. he. cit.— 



24. — March. Anac. 77, 199 (part.). — Mijracro- Astronium insigneM.ii.-B.cn. Anacard. 79, 179. 



druun Allem. in Trab. Cmnm. Sc. de E-cpl. Sect. ' E.x Reichr. fc. Exot. t. 205.— Eckl. et 



Bot. 3, t. 1, 2. Zeyh. Uniim. PI. Cap. 162.— Ekdl. Gen. n. 



* Small, Lractoate. 5908.— B. H. Oen. 421, n. 12.— March. 



* Spec. 8, 9. Gni.sEH. Fl. Brit. W.-Ind. 176, Anacard. 80, ISO.— Annsyllis E Met. in exs. 

 — Tu. et Pl. in Aim. So. Nat. ser. 5, xiv. 288. Drig. (ex. Endl.). 



