MELIACEJS. 499 



5, siibobovate, imbricate. Stamens 5 ; tube short cupular disciform 

 entire ; authors sessile exserted dcltoidly ovate ; connective ovate 

 surmounting the marginal (disjoined) cells. Germen short, 1-locular ; 

 jjlacentae 2, scarcely reaching the middle of the cell; ovules on 

 each placenta 2, collateral ; stigma sessile subglobose, entire or 

 obscurely 2-lobed. Fruit globular indehiscent, 1-locular; seeds 

 1, 2, enclosed in a thin aril (?) ovoid ; cotyledons of exalbuminous 

 embryo thick superposed ; radicle minute. — -A moderate sized tree ; 

 the younger parts slightly tomontose ; leaves imparl- or subpari-pin- 

 nate; leaflets opposite entii-e ; flowers Mn axillary and terminal 

 panicles." " [Eastern subtropical Australia.^) 



13. Guarea L.* — Calyx 3-6-dentate or partite or fid, valvatc or 

 imbricate. Petals 3-G, exserted, erect, valvate or more rarely 

 imbricate. iMaageu.^) Stamens twice as many as the petals ; 

 filaments connate in entu'e or crenate tube, externally free from 

 corolla or very rarely connate with it ; anthers enclosed introrse. 

 Germen nude at base or glandulose-stipitate, sometimes swelling 

 more or less into continuous or distinct glandules ; cells 2-5 ; style 

 erect short, apex stigmatose discifurra. Ovules in cells 1, 2, 

 descendent ; or one more or less obliquely ascendent. Capsule 

 lignose or coriaceous, smooth, costate or tuberculate, loculicidally 

 2-5- or oftener 4-valvato ; seeds quite covered by aril ; cotyledons 

 of exalbuminous embryo superposed fleshy ; radicle short dorsal. — 

 Trees or shrubs ; " leaves pinnate, opposite or alternate ; flowers ^ in 

 axillary subsimple, racemose or compound cymiferous racemes. 

 [Tropical America.^) 



14. Dasycoleum Turcz.^ — Flowers nearly of Giiarea, narrower ; 

 calyx cupular short subcntire or obtusely dentate. Petals 5, 

 coriaceous, subvalvate, finally recurved. Stamens 5 ; '" anthers 



' Small. ' Small or rather largo, white. 



' A genua in most points vety naaT Bcddnmea, '. Spec, about 30. Vest. C'/i. de PL t. 41. — 



(liffeiing in the form of its anthers, and most H. B. K. Nov. Ovn. et S/ifc. v. 217. — A. S. 



distinct in the nature of its ovary. If. P/. Vs. Bras. t. 71; Fl. Bras. Mer. ii. 



^ Spec. 1. 7/. m/«V/«)/ff F. MuKLL. t. 100. — Griseb. Fl. Brit. W.-Incl. 130. — 



* Muntiss. 1305.— J. Gen. 2G.5, 451.— Lamk. Turcz. Bidl. Muse. (1863), i. 689.— II. Bn. 

 ilic<. ii. 5 ; Suppl. ii. 820 ; /«. t. 301.— DC. .<if/a«»»»m, x. 110.- -Tr. .c/«». Sf. 2Vff<. ser. 5, xv. 

 Prodr.i. 623.— Spack, Suit, a Biiffm, iii. 199.— 367 (Ruiym), 308.— W alp. Brp.i. 434; ii. 817 ; 



A. Juss. Mclltic. 87, t. 8.— Endl. n. 5543. — ^nn. vii. 556. 



B. II. Geii. 335, 994, n. 19.—? Zurha Ten. in ' Bull. Mrsr. (1858), i. 414.— B. II. Gai. 335, 

 Dtich. Hev. But. ii. 127 (e.x B. H,). n. 20. 



i Karst. pi. Culitmh. ii. 51, t. 120. '" Flowers according lo B. 11, lU androiis. 



* Somutinics odorous. 



