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bifid plate, loaded with bushy and upright hairs. The ovary has 

 three cells surmounted by a style with trilobate stigraatiferous 

 apex, to which succeeds an ovoid, acuminate achene. The Talisias 

 are trees from tropical America, with compound pinnate leaves. 

 Lecaniodiscus, inhabiting western tropical Africa, lius flowers regular 

 or nearly so, gamosepalous imbricate calyx, and no corolla. The 

 disk, traversed inwardly by ten radiating grooves, like that of 

 Erioccehmi, surrounds an equal number, or nearly so, of stamens 

 with elongated anthers ; and the trimerous gynteceum becomes a 

 drupaceous fruit, but little fleshy, or an achene analogous to that of 

 Talisia. The Jac/eras, trees from the Indian Archipelago, have from 

 three to five imbricate sepals, an equal number of imbricate petals 

 and eight stamens interior to the disk. The petals are lined by a 

 cucuUate scale. All these characters give them a great resem- 

 blance to Cupania^ Nephelium^ and Sapindus, but their entii'e fruit is 

 analogous to that of the Talisia and Lecamodiscus, more fleshy, and 

 with three or four cells each containing an exarillate seed. Lcpis- 

 anthes have very nearly the same flowers, with four or five parts, 

 an imbricate perianth and petals lined by an entire or bilobate cu- 

 cullate scale. But the equally entii'e fruit has two or three inde- 

 hisceut cells, and is a cb'upe with more or less slight mesocarp ; this 

 genus, formed of trees from the Indian Archipelago and Timor, 

 with pari- or impari-pinnate leaves, is then closely allied to the 

 preceding. It is the same with Anomosanthes, whose flower is 

 organised like it, but whose disk, although it completely surrounds 

 the gynsoceum, is more developed on one side than on the other. 

 The fruit is also simple, coriaceous, indehiscent. It consists of Indian 

 trees. The Macphersonia^ shrubs of Madagascar, have flowers re- 

 gular in all their parts, analogous to those of the preceding genera, very 

 small petals and a dry, stipitatc, globular, indehiscent fruit ; but they 

 are immediately distinguished by their dccumposite-bij)innate leaves. 



The Glennieas are allied both to the preceding genera ami to 

 Erioccehmi. They have the five valvate sepals of the latter; and 

 the petals are short, more wide than long, liut the trilucular ovary 

 becomes a spherical, fleshy fruit, hardly marked by obtuse grooves 

 corresponding to one, two, or three cells. The seeds are exarillate, 

 and the compound leaves have only one or two paii's of folioles. 

 They are trees from Ceylon. The tSchleicheras, inhabiting tropical 



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