404 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



Stamens 8, interior to annular disk ; filaments in male flower elon- 

 gated ; anthers extrorse, 2-rimose. Gynoeceum of Schleicheru 2-3- 

 merous. Drupe subfleshy or dry ; putamcu crustaceous ; cells 1, 2, 

 l-sjiermous. Seed subei-ect, outwardly piilpy ', cotyledons of 

 straight embryo thick. — Trees ; leaves alternate paripinnate ; folioles 

 opposite sessile, 2-3-jugate ; flowers in slender elongated simple or 

 ramified clusters.^ (^Central America.^) 



25. Huertea K. and Pav.^ — Flowers polygamous (nearly of 

 3hlicocea or Schleiehera) ; receptacle rather concave. Sepals 5, 6, 

 and petals same in number alternate, imbricate. Stamens equal 

 in number to alternate petals, slightly perigynous with perianth ; 

 filaments free alternating with as many small glands of disk ; 

 anthers introrse, 2-rimose. Germen free except at base ; cells 2, incom- 

 plete fi-om vanishing septum ; ovule in each ascendent from inner 

 angle; micropyle extrorsely inferior ; style erect, acutely 2 -fid stig- 

 raatiferous at apex. Fruit subdrupaceous, l-sj^ermous; seed...? — A 

 tree ; wood fulvescent ; leaves alternate im paripinnate ; folioles 

 oblong-acute serrulate, at base sometimes unequally 2-glandular ; 

 flowers in axillary and terminal much compound ramified racemes.* 

 {Peru and CubaJ') 



26. Alectryon G.^rtn." — Flowers polygamo-dioecious apeta- 

 lous ; calyx lobes 4, 5, villous within, imbricated. Stamens 5-8 (in 

 female flower effete or 0) ; filaments inserted between lobes of thick 

 disk encircling them at base ; anthers introrse, 2-rimose. Gormen 

 (rudimentary or in male flower) 1-locular, unequally-obcordatc, 

 produced above sometimes to dorsal wing, sometimes to a small stylo, 

 stigmatiferous at simple or shortly 2-3-lobed apex ; ovule in cell 1, 

 subbasilar ascendent ; micropyle extrorsely inferior. Fruit turgid, 

 woody or crustaceous, indehisccnt or subtransversely unequally- 

 broken ; testa of ascendent subglobose seed crustaceous nitid, sm-- 



' A genus very nearly allied to Schleiehera. alied to the preceding, differing in the septum 



- Spec, about 2. Jacq. Amer. t. 11 {Mdi- of the germen being incomplete. 



eoecus). — H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Spec. v. 1.30.— ^ Spec. 1. S. glamlulo.sa R. et Pav. fcc. cit.— 



Xk. et Pl. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 4, xviii. 377. — S. Ciibcnsis Griseb. Cat. PI. Cut. 66. 



Oriseb. Fl. Brit. W.-Ind. 127. " Fi-uct. i. 216, t. 46.— Pom. Bict. Suppl. i. 



^ rrodr. 34, t. 6 ; Ft. Per. iii. 5, t. 227, fig. a. 288.— DC. Prodr. i. 617.— Camhess. J\Um. JUiis. 



—DC. Prodr. ii. 90.— Endl. Om. n. 1134.— xviii. 37.— Endl. Ge/K n. 5627.— B. H. Gen. 



B. H. Gen. as, n. H.~Makcb. Auiicard. 195. 410, n. 65.— H. Bn. Payer. Fam. Nat. Sid.— 



■I A genus hitherto doubtfully reckoned Alectryon A. Cunn. Ann. Nat. Mist. iii. 318. 

 among the Terehinthuccff: (trib. Spondias) nearly 



