410 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



bricated or subvalvate. Petals 5, alternate, esquamate, imbricate. Disk 

 orbicular- cupular, interior to perianth, radiately-5-sulcate within. 

 Stamens 5, alternii)etalous, interior to disk ; filaments inserted 

 below gynpcceum, lodged at base in grooves of disk ; antheis introrse, 

 2-rimose. Germen (rudimentary in male flower) 2-locidar; style 

 short curved ; apex laterally stigmatiferous, subentire or sub-2- 

 lobed ; ovule in cell 1, descendent or transverse, sometimes siib- 

 ascendent.' Drupe ; putamen thin, 1-2-spermous ; testa of oblong 

 seed, membranous ; cotyledons of exalbuminous ciirved embryo 

 plicate-foliaceous ; radicle ascendent. — A tree ; twigs angular : 

 leaves > alternate imparipinnate ; rachis winged ; folioles subopposite 

 (5-8-jugate), articulate at base, crenate ; flowers " in large ramified 

 cymiferous racemes. (East Ind.^) 



38. Ganophyllum Bl.' — Flowers polygamo-dioecious apetalous 

 (nearly oi" Filicmm) ; male calyx small cupular, -5-fid, valvate. Stamens 

 5-7, inserted between puberulose lobes of hypogynous disk ; fila- 

 ments free exserted ; anthers oblong introrse. Germen rudimentary 

 central. Female flower...? — A tree;^ twigs angular and leaves 

 alternate imparipinnate, lepidote with waxlike scales ; folioles 8-jugate 

 falcate entire coriaceous ; flowers ^' in compound-ramified axillary 

 racemes. [Pliilippine Is. N.-Guinea^ Australia [?].') 



39. Dodonsea L.^ — Flowers dioecious or polygamous apetalous ; 

 sepals 2-5, sometimes minute, imbricated or valvate. Stamens 4-8 

 (or more rarely 9-1 2), central (rudimentary or infemale flower), in- 

 serted in non-or slightly-glandular receptacle ; filaments free usually 

 short ; anthers introrse oblong, sub-4-agonal, 2-rimose. Germen (in 

 male flower rudimentary or 0) surrounded at base by small disk 

 enclosing the stamens when present outside or between the lobes, 



' The younger ouea with twigs and peduncle known to us, F. Muell. (Fragm. vii. 24) is 



often covered with waxlike scales. liiirsei-acea, partly the same, as regards the fruit, 



2 Small, white. as £iiruse/iiiius fnleulus Benth. Fl. Auxhal. 



^ Spec. 1. F. decipieiisTuw. Inc. cit. — Fteridu- i. 490. The genua remains very doubtful. 



pliyllitm (lecipieiis Thw. — Rhus dcripieiis Wight ' Gen. n. 8.35 (not 1'lum.). — Adans. Fam. rft.s 



& AUN. I'riidr. i. 172.— Wight, 111. t. 75. Pt. ii. 342.— J. Gen. 375.— Lamk. Diet. ii. 29'.i ; 



< Miis. Lui/d.-Bat. i. 320.— B. H. Gcii. 32G, Snppl. ii. 494; III. t. 304.— DC. Prodi: i. 61G. 



n. 12. — March. Adansonia, viii. 37, 68 [Burse- — C'ambess. in M^in. Mux. xviii. 35. — Spach, 



riicic.) Suit, a Buffon, iii. 68. — Endl. Geii. n. 5626. — 



» " Balsamifera." A. Ghay, Qe». 111. t. 182.— B. H. Oeii. 410, n. 



" Small, greenish, ebracteate. 63. — H. Bn. Payer. Fam. Nat. 319.' — Baker, 



? Spec. 1, 2. MiQ. Fl. Iiid.-Bat. i. p. ii. 655. Fl. Miiurit.60. — FnijilewosmaBAnTL. PI. Preim. 



G. fnlctum, from the description most recently ii. 228. 



