•i-22 NATURAL HISTORY UF PLANTS. 



in axillary aud terminal more or less ramified compound racemes ; 

 pedicels 2-4-bracteato (/S'/yp/iom'a ^), or sometimes (Coifwrns^), partly 

 abortive plumose-hirsute. {All warm and temperate regions?) 



30 ? Comocladia P. Br,* — Flowers (nearly of Rims) hermaphro- 

 dite or polygamous, 3 or more rarely 4-merous ; sepals '" and petals 

 alternate, imbricate. Stamens equal in number to petals and alternate, 

 inserted below intervals of central disk lobes; anthers introrse. 

 Germen sessile; styles 3, very short, dilated, stigmatiferous at apex; 

 ovule suspended from basilar funicle. Fruit drupaceous oliviforin ; 

 testa of oblong seed thin ; cotyledons of exalbuminous embryo fleshy, 

 plano-convex ; radicle superior accumbent. — Trees with abundant 

 juice ; ^ leaves alternate, imparipinnate ; folioles opposite often coria- 

 ceous or spinose dentate; flower'' in axillary compound racemes, 

 sometimes subsimple. [Tropical America.^) 



31. Pistacia L.^ — Flowers dioecious apetalous, male calyx small, 

 imbricated, 5-partite or -5-fid ; leaves bractiform. Stamens usually 

 5, inserted round small annular disk ; filaments free short ; anthers 

 2-rimose.^° Germen rudimentary minute or 0. Female calyx 3-5- 

 fid or partite, imbricated. Germen 1-locular;" stjde erect, after- 

 wards divided in 3 unequal or equal branches recurved or revolute, 

 stigmatiferous within ; ovule ascendent, suspended from subbasilar 

 funicle; micropyle introrse superior, obturated with more or less dilated 



I'l. Cup. 194 (not Med. nor Eadd. nor Zea, Gen. n. 5896.— B. H. Gen. 419, n. 2.— March. 



nor Tratt.). — Ozoroa Del. in Ami. Sc. Nat. Aitacnrd. 90, 183. — Locloiiaa Plum. Amcr. (ed. 



aer. 2, xx. 91, t. 1. — Aiiaphreiiium E. Mey. in Burm.), 18 (nee L.). 



Exs. Drer/. — Walp. Ecp. v. 414 ; Ami. ii. 283. * Often subpctaloid. 



' NuTT. in Ton: ct Gr. Fl. N.-Amer. i. 220 — '' Glutinous, nigrescent, sometimes very pun- 



Walp. i. 555. 



* T. Inst. 610, t. 380. 7 Small greenish or purplish. 



3 Spec, about 110. II. B. K. Nov. Gcii. ct Spec. » gpec. about 4. Jacq. Amcr. 12, t. 173, fig. 



t. 603, 604.— Wight et AeN. Prodr. i. 172.— A. 4.— H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Spec. vii. 15, t. 607. 



Gray, Gen. III. t. 150, 160.— Haev. et SoxD. — Grisee. Fl. Brit. W.-Ind. 175. 



Fl. Cap. i. 504.— Bexth. J"/, a'ofpyi. 69; II. '■' Gen. n. 1108.— Adans. Fam. dcs. PI. ii. 



Austral, i. 488.— Geiseh. i^/. Brit. W.-hid. 175. 342.— K. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 1, ii. 329.— DC. 



— Tr. et Pl. in Ami. Sc. Nut. ser. 5, xiv. 288. Prodr. ii. 64.— Spach, Suit a Biiffon, ii. 195.— 



— Olit. Fl. Trap. Afr. i. 436. — Schweinf. Endl. Gen.n. 6893.— B. H. Gen. 419, n. 3.— 



Beitr. Fl. JEthiop. 32 (Anaphreninm), 33.— March, ^(mrarf^. 98, 132, 186, t. 1, 3.— 7V>r/'/«- 



ToRE. in Fmor. Ifep. But. t.T.—CrREti.ctGomi. thus T. Inst. 519, t. 345.— J. Oen. 371.— /."- 



Fl. de Fr. i. 340.— Walp. liep. i. 551 ; ii. 829 ; tisciix T. op. cit. 580. 



V. 414 ; Ann. i. 199, 967 ; ii. 282 ; iv. 447 ; vii. '" Pollen spherical. " Sur I'equateur, quatro 



641. papillcs entourecs d'un halo (P. Tcrcbintlius) ; 



* Jam. 124. — J. Ocn. 370. — Lamk. Tlict.W. hiiit a douze pores irregul. t'pars (P. XorfKO(s)." 

 69 ; Suppl. ii. 325 ; III. t. 17.— K. in Ann. Sc. (H. Mohl, in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 2, iii. 340.) 

 Nat. sur. 1, ii. 341.— DC. Prodr. ii. 65.— Endl. " Cells sometimes 1, 2, effete. 



