320 NAT ORAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



style short lateral oblique, 3-4-lobecl stigmatiferous at apex ; ovule 

 not far from apex of coll descerLclent ; micropyle superior. Drupe 

 compressed sub-ovate scantily fleshy, persistently accrescent with 

 lateral style ; exocarp narrow winged, thinly veined ; putamen hard 

 pale ; embryo of descendent seed exalbuminous ; cotyledons plano- 

 convex rather fleshy ; radicle short superior. — A glabrous shrub ; 

 leaves alternate petiolate simple serrate coriaceous ; flowers ^ in very 

 ramifled compound terminal racemes ; branches of female inflorescence 

 finally compressed accrescent-dilated thick pectinate incurved and 

 hard ; " bracts persistent. {South Africa?) 



26. Smodingium E. Met.' — Flowers polygamous ; calyx small, 

 5-de.ntate persistent. Petals 5, oblong patent, imbricate, deciduous. 

 Stamens 5, alternipetalous, inserted below annular disk. Germen 

 sessile, 1-locular ; styles 3, capitellate stigmatiferous at apex ; 

 " ovule descendent from summit of cell." Fruit compressed samaroid 

 oblong, unequally winged at margin, vittate on both sides f putamen 

 coriaceous ; embryo of compressed subreniform seeds rather fleshy, 

 exalbuminous ; cotyledons thin unequally-oblong ; radicle superior 

 conical uncinate accumbent. — A glabrous shrub ; loaves alternate 

 petiolate, 3-foliolate ; folioles serrate; flowers" in compound 

 " paniculate " terminal racemes. (South Africa, Mexico.'') 



27 ? Faguetia March.' — Flowers dioecious regular, usually 4- 

 merous; lobes of gamophyllous calyx imbricated. Petals imbricated. 

 Stamens equal in number to petals, shorter alternate; filaments free 

 subulate inserted below slightly perigynous crenulate disk incurved 

 at apex ; anthers introrse, 2-rimose. Germen rudimentary in male 

 flower, free, strictly surrounded by base of disk, 1-locular; style 

 very short, 2-3-stigmatiferous, lobed at apex. 0\mle 1, laterally 

 ascendent, suspended from summit of funicle ; micropyle introrse 

 superior obturated. Fruit long samaroid ** lanceolate sub- falcate, 

 compressed, acute at apex, at base attenuate in long wing ; cell 

 sub-apiculate, 1-spermous ; testa of descendent (immature) seed 

 membraneous ; cotyledons of exalbuminous embryo. 



' Small. Aiiacanl. 83, 178. 



- Hcpresenting a sutfasciate monstrous horn. s Stripes resinous longitudinal blacf. 



■^ Spec. 1. B. laui-iiiiim W. loe. cit. — Hakv. n Small, crowded, 



ct SoNP. Fl. Cap. i. 61i.—LmirophylUis capeii- ' Spec. 3. H. Bn. in Adansmun, xi. 182.- 



sis Thunk. — Daphiiitis capeiisis Si'Reno. loc. Walp. Ami. vii. 6J6. 



oil. s Aiiacard. 84, 176, t. 2. 



■* In exs. Dreg, (ex IIarv. et Sond. Fl. Cop. » Recalls Samara of the Fraxinem. 

 i. 523).— B. H. Gen. 423, n. 17.— March. 



