506 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



suborbiculate ; radicle superior, attached to broader side of cotyle- 

 dons. — A very tall tree ; leaves alternate paripinnate ; flowers in 

 compound cyniiferovis terminal racemes. ( Western India}) 



28. Elutheria Ecem.- — Flowers 4-merous ; sepals short pubescent 

 imbricate. Petals longer, imbricate or contorted, finally patent. Sta- 

 mens 8 ; filaments connate in tube 8-dentate at apex ; teeth 2-fid ; 

 anthers sessile in hollows oblong ; connective produced beyond the 

 introrsely rimose cells to a subulate ligule. Germen furnished at 

 base with shortly stipitiform disk, 4-locular ; style slender, apex 

 stigmatose discoid ; ovules '3o, 2 -seriate in each cell. Fruit an elongate 

 ovoid capsule ; pericarp papyraceous, 4-valvate ; valves attenuated ^ 

 on both sides, free fi'om incomplete septa. Seeds co, compressed and 

 produced downwards to long membranous imbricate wing ; nucleus 

 compressed crustaceous surrounding the somewhat thick (green) em- 

 bryo ; cotyledons flat oval ; radicle short exserted ; albumen fleshy. 

 — Tomeutose* shnibs or bushes; leaves alternate im paripinnate ; 

 leaflets opposite sessile ; flowers axillary solitary or in spurious cymi- 

 ferous racemes. {Columhia, PeruJ') 



29 ? Carapa Adbl.*' — Flowers 4-5-merous ; calyx short imbri- 

 cate, equally fid or partite. Petals longer, contorted, finally reflexed. 

 Stamens 8-10; filaments connate in urceolate tube; lacinia) of 

 8- 10-dentate or fid tube entire or 2-partite [Xylocarjms) ;'' anthers 

 introrse enclosed, inserted in hollows of tube. Germen surrounded 

 at base with thick disk ; cells 4, 5, oppositipetalous ; style short, apex 

 disciform stigmatose very dilated ; ovules in each cell oo (2-8), 

 2-scriate. Fruit capsular spherical or ovoid woody or fleshy ; cells 

 1-5 ; septa thin sometimes vanishing ; seeds in cells 1 or few large 

 more or less deformed by mvitual pressure or pyramidally angled and 



• Spec. 1. C. tttbiilaris A. Juss. loc. cit. — conspccific with the Cohimhian.) 



WitiHT and Abn. Prodr. i. 122.— Wight, III. « Oviaii. Suppl. 33, t. 387.— Lamk. Did. i. 



t. bd.—Swietenia Chickrassa EoxB. Fl. hid. ii. C21 ; ///. t. 301.— DC. Pndr. i. 626.— A. Jrss. 



390. — iS. rillosa Wight. — PUujiotaxis villosa Me/inc. 90, t. 9.— Svach, Suit, a Siifoii, iii. 202. 



Wall. Cat. — Endl. Oeii. n. 5544.— B. H. Oeii. 338, n. 29. 



= Si/nops. 122 (not P. Br.).-B. H. Oeii. 330, — H. Bn. rai/er Fum. Nat. iOrj.—Fersooniu W. 



n. 4. — tichmaiileea Kahst. Fl. Cotiimb. Sp. Sd. i. Spce. PI. ii. 331 (not Mich, nor ^ti.).—Racapa 



187, t. 93. lioiM. Si/twps. 123. — Touloucouna HoiM. toe. cit. 



3 Those referring to 5«'i<-to(((r. ^ Schreb. Oen. n. 646. — Kcen. A. Juss. 



* Habit of some Cumnia:. Mdiac. 91, t. 9. — PoiR. Diet. viii. 806 ; Suppl. 

 « Spec. 1, 2. H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Spec. vii. t. 510.— Spach, Suit, a Bvffim, iii. 204.— Endl. 



276{Sapw(hicea .'). — Hook. Icoii.t. 129 [Gnarca). Oen. n. 65io.— Orniiatum KacN. in Naturf. x.x. 

 — Tk. Ann. Se. Nut. fcr. 5, xv. 376.— Walp. — ilunosmna Gri^y. Notul. iv. b02. 

 Ann. xii. 500. (A Peruvian plant apparently 



