TEREBINTHAGE^. 341 



lobes of calyx (?) 4-5-meroiis connate at base, imbricated. Corolla 

 gamopetalous subcampanulate, inserted slightly higher than calyx (at 

 summit of short internode) ; lobes imbricate, finally patent. Sta- 

 mens 4, 5, alternipetalous, inserted at base of corolla ; filaments 

 short; anthers uitrorse 2- rimose, Germen free, 1-locular ; ovide 1, 

 descendent ; mycropyle introrse superior ; style excentric inserted 

 slightly below the rather prominent apex of germen, subcapitate stig- 

 matiferous at apex. Fruit oboval-oblong, emargiuate at apex, inde- 

 hiscent, longitiidinally 2 -winged; wings marginal transversely strio- 

 late nitid ; nucleus linear. Seed subpendulous linear-elongate sul- 

 cate ; coat very thin ; embryo verysmall conical inverted within apex of 

 very densely fleshy-granular albumen. — An herb, sometimes suffii-u- 

 tescent at base, volubile glabrous ; juice milky ; leaves alternate, 

 petiolate wide cordate, entii'e or lobed, membranous, digiti- or pedati- 

 nerved at base ; flowers ^ in furcate cymiferous axillary racemes, 2- 

 chotomous or paniculate, seeund, sessile ebracteate, articulate at con- 

 cave base by a small process of branch. {Trop. Asia^- Indian Arch?) 



in Beiiii. PI. Jar. liar. 246, t. 49. — Exdl. Gch. n. ^ Spec. 1 (according to various authors 4, 5), 



3888'.— B. H. Gill. 355, n. 36.— H. Bn. Allan- .Sell. C. Sumji/ui H. Bn. Adansoiiia. x. 280. 



soiiia, X. 279 ; I'rodr. 25. — reripteri/giitm Habsk. which is Olus sanffiiiiiis RuMPH.BtcJ. Amboiii. v. 



Cat. Burt, livij. 234.— H. Bn. Eujihorb. 668. — 482, t. liQ.—Bwseorea sativa L. Anueii. iv. 133. 



S'wja Ham. (e.x Lindl. luc, cit.). — W. Sp. iv. 895. — Cardiuptiri/s molmcana Bl. 



' Small, white. Rumphia iii. 207, t. 177.— C. lobata K. Be. foe 



- A genus of doubtful place, perhaps on ac- cit. ; in Cat. Wall. n. 8033. — C. suhamata Wall. 



count of its hermaphrodite flowers, with appa- — Hioja sangninaria Ham. — Peripterygium quiii- 



rently a true calyx, belter referred to Mappia. quelobum Hassk. 



