TEREBINTHACE^. 331 



branches of inflorescence linear-compressed and striate narrow 

 fasciatc ; one side naked, the other bearing crowded few-flowered 

 alternately 2-seriate sessile glomcrules.^ {Gnianar') 



48 ? Desmostachys Pl.^ — Flowers nearly of Lmiantlwa ; petals 

 linear, valvate. Stamens 5 ; filaments filiform or rather comjiressed, 

 glabrous or very shortly pilose ; anthers introrse, oblong oi- globose- 

 :2-dymous. Germen surrounded at base with disk 5-lobed between 

 filaments, 2-ovidate ; style slender, capitellate or truncate at apex. 

 Fruit ? — Scandent shrubs ; leaves entire or sinuate, membranaceous 

 or coriaceous ; flowers small (articulate) in slender elongated inter- 

 rupted spikes, terminal and solitary or axillary fasciculate.* [Trop. 

 West. Africa, MalasiaJ'') 



49. Apodytes E. Met.*' — Flowers nearly of Laskmfhera ; calyx 

 small, 5-deutate. Petals glabrous, valvate. Stamens 5, alternating 

 with petals shortly coherent or free ; anthers introrse dorsifixed, at 

 base or on both sides 2-lobed. Germen free, naked at base, incrassate 

 or on both sides glandular-appendiculate ; style excentric ■ or 

 oblique, whence sulcate and at base foveolate, afterwards on account 

 of uneriually accrescent subanatropous germen more or less lateral 

 or finally subbasilar, scarcely or not at all capitellate stigmatiferous 

 at apex; ovules 2, collaterally descendent or subsuperposed; micropyle 

 introrse superior. Drupe subbaccate oblique, often compressed auat- 

 ropous (finally apex subbasilar), at base naked or on both sides fleshy- 

 appendiculate ; putamen crustaceous or ligneous. Seed finally (from 

 the anatropy of the pericarp) more or less ascendent ; albumen 

 copious fleshy ; radicle of minute embryo (in the fi-uit apical) finally 

 inferior or lateral. — Trees or shrubs ; leaves alternate entire pen- 

 ninerved coriaceous ; flowers ' in corymbiform ramified cymiferous 

 clusters terminal or axillary. {Asia and trop Africa.^) 



' A genus, it would seem, closely allied to 6488-. — Miers, Ann. Nil. Ili'-t. ser. 2, ix. 387 ; 



Lasicitithera and Krummeria, its place in the CotUrib. i. 56, t. 5. — H. Bx. Adaiisonia, iii. 



order from its unknown fruit somewhat un- 372. — 't Kothapodi/tci Bl. Mus. Lwjd.-Bat. i. 



certain, from its inflorescence analogous to 248. — Unphiostijlis Pl. HooJi. Niger, 25!), t. 28. 



some Artocarpus. — Mieus, Ann, Nat. Hist. loc. cil. 390 ; Contrib. 



' Spec. 1. P. Artocarjn H. Bn. loc. cit. 201. i. 59, t. 6.-11. Bn. Adansonia, iii. 90. 



' MiERS, Ann. Nat. Hist. scr. 2, ix. 398 ; ' Usually email, whitish. 



Contrib. i. 68, t. 9.— B. H. Gen. 350, n. 18. ' Spec, about 10. Wight, fmn. t. 1153.— 



* A genus whose place is uncertain from its Hook. v. Hook. Icon. t. 773 — Bexth. Trans. 



nnlinown fruit, seemingly near Lnsianthera. Linn. Soc, xviii. 083, t. 41. — Oi.iv. Ft. Trop. 



' Spec. 3. Oliv. F/. Trop. Afr. i. 353. Afr. i. 335.— Wai.I'. A^.n. vii. 5G7. 



' AiiN. llool;. Joiirn. iii. 155.— JDkdl. Ocn. n. 



