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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



or eoutorted, obtuse or scarcely diLitecI stigma tiferous at apex ; 

 ovules in cell 2, oblique, inserted at middle of internal angle. 

 Capsule^ coriaceous inflated submombraneous or sometimes ligneous 

 (IlarjmU/asfrmn), 2-3-locular, loculicidal ; seeds in cells 1,' 3, arillate 

 at base or to middle ; aril adherent to testa (otherwise glabrous) ; 

 cotyledons of thick exalbuminous embryo hemispherical or obliquely 

 superposed fleshy ; radicle short incumbent. — Trees ; leaves alternate 

 imparipinnate ; folioles alternate glabrous ; flowers ^ in more or less 

 ramified compound-cymiferous racemes; pedicels often long, brae- 

 teolate at base. (Troj). Asia and Oceania.^) 



33 ? Hypelate P. Br.'* — • Flowers polygamo-dioecious regular 

 (nearly of Thou'mca and Plccroxylon)^ 4:-5-raerous ; petals esquamate 

 imbricated or contorted. Stamens 8-iO, interior to disk ; anthers 

 introrse cordate-ovate or subsagittate. Germen and 2 ovules (of 

 Ulppohromus). Fruit globose, dry, coriaceous or fleshy,^ indehiscent ; 

 cells 1-3, 1-spermous. Testa of descendent seed coriaceous or crus- 

 taceous ; radicle of exalbuminous embryo superior uncinate ; cotyle- 

 dons thick iilano-eonvex. — Trees or shrubs ; leaves alternate, pinnate 

 or 3-foliolato, more rarely 1-foliolate ; flowers in short compound-rami- 

 fied sometimes corymbiform cymiferous racemis. {Antilles, Florida.^) 



34. Hippobromus Eckl. and Zeyh.^ — Flowers polygamo- 

 dioecious regular (nearly of Hijpclatc), 5-merous; sepals unequal, 

 imbricated, persistent. Petals 5, small esquamate thick or 

 ( Dnrafoxylon *). Stamens 5-8, interior to complete annular dislc 

 hypogyuous ;' anthers introrse oblong, 2-rimose. Germen (in male 

 flower rudimentary or 0) 2-3-loeular ; style short, 2, 3-lobed stigma- 

 tiferous at apex ; ovules in each cell 2, subcollaterally descendent ; 

 micropyle extrorsely superior. Fruit subglobose or ellipsoid coriaceous. 



1 Large, red or golden in Blaneon, '• sur- 

 rounded by a membranous wing." 



- Greenish, rather largo. 



^ Spec. 6, 7. Bl. Ritmphia, iii. 17i. — Mm. 

 Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. ii. 670; Suppl. i. 199.— 

 Benth. Fl. Aiisti-al. i. 470.— Thw. Emm. PI. 

 Zei/l. 56.— W ALP. Ann. vii. 631. 



< Mist. Jam. 2S0.— PoiR. Diet. Suppl. iii. 83. 

 — 0/MHES8. in jV^m. Miis. xviii. 31. — Spacii. 

 iSuit. a IliiJ/hii, iii. 64. — Endl. Geii. n. 5619. — 

 B. H. Gen. 408, n. 55.— H. B.v. Payer Fam. 

 Nat. 31G.—Exotlica Macf. Fl. Jam. i. 232. A 

 genus with tho following anomalous in the 



order on account of the situation of the micro- 

 pyle and only doubtfully placed here. 



i> Sometimes rather bluish. 



« Spec. 2. Sw. Fl. Ind. Occ. ii. 653, t. 14.— 

 Deless. Ic. Sel. iii. 23, t. 39.— DC. Prod,: . 

 616 {Melicoccre sect. Sp!iicrococca).— J. Mdm. 

 Mm. iii, t. 5-7 {Mebeocca). — Hook. Lnnd. 

 Journ. iii. 226, t. 7.— Giuseu. Fl. Brit. W.-Ii.d. 

 i. 127; Cat. PI. Cub. 46. 



T Enmn. 151 (1834-37). — Kndl. Oei. n. 

 5637.— B. H. n. 402, n. 35. 



8 Dup.-Tn. MSS. (e.'c Boj. in Re,d. Smk. ot 

 B. H. Gen. 408, n. 66).- Baker, Fl. Maurit. 60. 



