TEREBINTHACEJE. 327 



usually opposite ; flowers in compoimd-cymiferoiis racemes terminal 

 or in the axils of the upper leaves. {Trop. South Jmerica.) 



40 ? Pentaspadon Hook. Jun.~ — Flowers hermaphrodite (nearly 

 of Holigurna) ; lobes of short calyx slightly imbricated, afterwards 

 not contiguous. Petals imbricated. Stamens 10, inserted round 

 disk, of which 5 alternipetalous are fertile ; anthers introrse ; others 

 oppositipetalous same in number smaller stei'ile, glandular-capitate 

 at apex. Germ en 1 , inserted at summit of rather concave receptacle ; 

 style lateral, stigmatiferous at apex ; funicle inserted laterally on 

 wall of germen below style, bearing a suspended ovule at apex. 

 Fruit ? — A tall tree ; leaves alternate imparipinnate ; axillary in- 

 llorescenee and other characters of Iloligarna, Sorindeia or Drimi/- 

 cat'pus^. {Borneo and Sumatra^) 



41? Corynocarpus FoEST.^ — Flowers hermaphrodite; sepals 5, 

 unequal, connate at base, imbricated. Petals 5, alternate longer, im- 

 bricated. Stamens 6, fertile opposite petals and adnate to them at base ; 

 filaments otherwise free ; anthers introrse 2-rimose, Staminodes (?) 5, 

 alternipetalous glauduliform. Germen free, 1-locular ; style siibapical, 

 capitellate stigmatiferous at apex ; ovule 1, descendent, inserted below 

 apex ; micropyle superior, ventral below insertion ; raphe dorsal. Fruit 

 drupaceous ; putamen thin coriaceous flbroiis ; cell of seed strictly 

 filled ; testa membranous, veined ; cotyledons of thick embryo plano- 

 convex ; radicle short superior. — Glabrous small trees ; leaves 

 alternate simple integerrimous penninerved ; flowers in terminal 

 ramified cymiferous racemes.'' {Nevj Zealand."^) 



1 Spec, about 4. March, he. cit. 162.— Walp. "" Char. Gen. 31, 1. 16.— L. fil. Siqipl. 156.— 



Ann. iv. 448. J. Oen. 288.- Lamk. Vict. i. 107 ; 111. t. 143.— 



-Tram. Linn. Sue. xxiii. 168, t. 24 (1860). A. Cuhn. in Ann. Nat. Mist. iv. 260.— Endl. 



— B. H. Cm. 419, n. 5.—Nijthuprotium Miq. (?<.«. n. 4232 l.—B. H. G(;j(.42.5,n.32.— March. 



Fl. Ind.-ISat. Suppl. i. 527 (1861).— B. H. Gen. Anacard. 59, 167.— H. Bn. in Adansonia, x. 



326, n. 13 (iJ«)-«()(ff).— March. Anacard. 92, 264 ; xi. 203. — Merretia Solanu. MSS. (ex 



185. Endl.). 



' A genua hence allied to the preceding, ^ A genus anomalous in order, formerly 



whence Tnpirira, from a section of which reckoned among the Berberidaccai, Ardisicee, 



Odina differs only by carpel, hence closely con- and Mi/rsinea. 



necting the Anaenrdiece with Spondias. ^ Spec, perhaps 2, ono South Caledonian, the 



* Spec. 1. P. Motlei/i HooK. P. loc. cil. — other 6'. lavigatus FoiiST. — IIook. p. Fl. Kov. 



Nothoprotinm sumatiannm Mm. loc. cit.; Ann. Zd. i. 48; Uandb.N.-Zeal. Fl. iG.—Bot. Mag, 



Mus. Lugd.-TSat. iii. 90. t. 4379. 



