fiAPIXDACE.l^. 407 



arched aecumbcnt ascendent.— A tree ;' leaves approximately alternate 

 or subopposite, crowded at snmmit of twigs, abruptly pinnate, 

 folioles oj^posite oblique subtrapezoid obtuse or refuse,' entii-e; 

 flowers - in axillary ramified cymifevous racemes.^ {South Africa*) 



;31. Melicopsidivim II. Bn. — Flowers regular polygamous; 

 sepals 5, unequal, much imbricated. Petals 5, alternate, longer 

 orbiculate concave, glandular fimbriate at margin, imbricate. 

 Stamens o, alternipetalous, interior to regular disk outwardly between 

 the petals prominent-5-angular ; filaments hypogynous very corru- 

 gate-plicate, finally long exserted ; anthers (effete in female flower) 

 ovoid, introrsely 2-rimose. Germen (rudimentary in male flower) 

 central, .3-4-locular ; style terminal straight or slightly curved, simple 

 stiginatiferous scarcely incrassato at apex ; ovules in cells 2, inserted 

 at middle of internal angle, oblique or subhorizontal. Fruit capsular, 

 3-4-coccous ; cocci solute from woody filiform-3-partite columella, in- 

 wardly dehiscent ; endocarp subpergamentaceous ; exocarp finally dry 

 thinsolubile. Seeds in cells 1, 2, globose-subhippocrepiformexarillate ; 

 testa crustaceous(dark); cotyledons of exalbuminous embryo amply 

 foliaceous much convolute; radicle long terete arched. — A small tree ; 

 leaves alternate petiolate, 3-foliolate; folioles oblong -lanceolate obtuse 

 subcoriaceous ; flowers in terminal corymbiform ramified-cymiferous 

 racemes slightly shorter than upper leaves." [N.- Caledonia!') 



32. HarpuUia Roxb. ' — Flowers regular dioecious or polygamous, 

 4- or raove varely (Ilatjmlliasfnim^) 5-merous; sepals equal and petals 

 same in number alternate longer esquamate imbricated. Disk very 

 small or 0. Stamens 5-S, hypogynous (in female flower rudimentary) ; 

 filaments central erect elongated ; anthers introrse. Germen (rudi- 

 mentary in male flower) 2-3-locular; style short or elongate, straight 



' Bark bitter. dons. It presents apparently the regular form 



2 Small, ebractcate. of Cossiyna or Loxodiscus. Leaves of Zanihoxy- 



^ "A genus approaching the Simarubem in lo>i. 

 many points." (B. H.) ' Spec. 1. M. Infuliatiim 11. Bx. Adnitsonia, 



* Spec. 1. P. utile EcKL. & Zeyh. loc. eit.~ xi. 243. 

 Harv. Thcs. Cap. i. 11, t. 17.— Harv. & Soxn. ' Fl. Jiicl. i. G4.5.— B. U. Geii. 407, n. 64.— 



Fl. Cap. i. 243. — Walp. R(p. i. 422 j Ann. vii. Tina Bl. Ilijdr. 23.5 (part.), not Riem. et ScH. 



C37. • — Otoiii/cJiiiimBh. Jlump/iia, iii. 180. — Blancoa 



' A genu8 not unlike HarpuUia, differing Bl. luc. cit. 181. — Daiiiitnp/wriix Zirr. ISIJdr. 



chiefly in its 3-foliate leaves, petals, evolute Nat. Wet. v. 181 {T/iaimtophoriis?). — Stnpto- 



disk, nature of capsule, exarillatc; seeds, very ulii/ma Tnw. llook. Kew Jourii. vi. 298, t. 9 A. 

 long radicle and convolute foliaceous cotylc- " II. B.\. Adniisoiiia, xi. 242. 



