412 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



tudinally rimose ; connective dorsal thick shortly subconical sub- 

 basifixed. Sepals of female flowers 4, 5, free or subfi'ee. Disk 

 small 3-4-lobed. Germen elongate 2-3-locular ; empty cells 1-2 ; the 

 other 2-ovulate ; ovules 2, inserted at base of septa (sometimes incom- 

 plete) ascendent ; micropyle extrorsely inferior ; styles 2, 3, unequal 

 subulate recurved everywhere stigmatiferous. Fruit capsular much 

 compressed subsamaroid elongated-2-3-winged, oblong elliptical or 

 lanceolate ; seeds compressed ; cotyledons of exalbuminous embryo 

 oblong rather flat ; radicle short inferior. — Glabrous or incano- 

 pubescent (bitter) shrubs ; leaves alternate imparipiunate ; leaflets co, 

 alternate entire, articulate, deciduous J flowers dense in axillary and 

 terminal elongated racemes.^ {Mexico, Antilles.^) 



42? Akania Hook F.^ — " Flowers regular hermaphrodite ; tube'*' 

 of calyx hemispherical, lined within with disk ; lobes 5, short, 

 imbricate. Petals 5, inserted in faux, very shortly unguiculate 

 rotundate, imbricate. Stamens 5-9, hypogynous ; filaments short ; 

 anthers linear-elongate. Germen free pubescent narrow-ovoid 

 indistinctly o-gonal, 3-locular ; style short, stigmatose at apex 

 capitellate ; ovules in cells 2, superjiosed, descendent. Fruit...? — 

 A very glabrous tree " ; leaves alternate imparipiunate ; leaflets 

 alternate petiolulate elongate-lanceolate acuminate spinoso-dentate 

 coriaceous clear reticulate; " flowers ° in axillary and externally- 

 winged" freely branched pubescent panicles."^ [Eastern Australia.^) 



43 ? Llagunoa E. and Pav.^ — Flowers monoecious or polygamous 

 apetalous siibii'regular ; receptacle widely cupuliform unequal, lined 

 within with a glaudulous submembranous and irregular suboblique 

 and crenate disk. Sepals 5, subequally 3-angular foliaceous, valvate 

 or slightly imbricate. Stamens 8, interior to disk and inserted vindcr 



' A genus abnormal in the order, in some ^ " Pedales et ultra." 



respects on account of its bitterness approach- ^ Belonging to this genus perhaps is (from 



ing thetiuas8ian/i«?«cicB, inothersrereiio^/tffa'rt; B. H. G«». 1000) Apiocarpos Montkouz. Mem. 



with the habit and leaves of the Liijuminoste. Acad. Lyon, x. 190. 



2 Spec. 2, 3. Benth. PI. Hartweg. n. 67 ^ Spec. 1. A. Eillii Hook, f.— Benth. Fl. 

 {Mimos. Gen. Nov.?). — Griseh. J/. Brit. W.- Austral, i. 471. — Cupania Itieens F. Muell. 

 Ind. 141 ; Cat. PI. Cub. 50.— Walp. Ann. iv. Fragm. iii. 44. 



382 ; vU. 638. 'J Prodr. 126, t. 28.— Cambess. M&m. Miis. 



3 Qen. 400, n. .59. xviii. 34.— Endl. Gai. n. 6624.- B. H. Gen. 



* lleccptacle concave 't 409, n. 68. — Amirola Peks. Syn. ii. 565. — DC. 



• " Mediocribus, longe pedicellatis, ebrao- Prodr. i. 616. — Or6ii/n;/a Behteb. Merc. Chil. 

 teatis." 737, ex C. Gay (not Mart.). 



