608 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



nipetalous longer ; anthers subcordate apiculate introrse, 2-rimosc, 

 versatile. Germen immersed at base of disk, depressed ovoid, 3-locii- 

 lar ; style short, apex stigmatose obscurely 3-lobed ; ovules in cells 

 to 8, in 2 series. Capsule ovoid-oblong coriaceous, loculicidal; valves 

 3, septiferous in middle ; columella 0. Seeds imbricate, and inserted 

 at margins of septa, unequally alate ; hilum lateral ; cotyledons of 

 exalbuminous embryo plano-convex ; radicle short. — A tall tree ; 

 wood hard yellow ; leaves abruptly pinnate ; leaflets obtuse entire ; 

 flowers ^ in terminal and axillary compound ramose cymiferons racemes. 

 {East India?-') 



32. Flindersia R. Br.^ — Flowers hermaphi-odite ; sepals 5, short, 

 imbricate, sometimes connate at base. Petals 5, longer, imbricate, 

 finally patulous. Stamens 10, exterior to cupular or shortly tubular 

 rather thick subeutire or crenate disk, 2-seriate ; oppositipetalous 

 shorter, often anantherous or ; filaments free, incurved at apex ; 

 anthers short suborbiculate or subcordate, introrse, 2-rimose. Gormen 

 immersed at bottom of disk free ; cells 5, oppositipetalous, more or 

 less prominent at back, and sometimes glandulose at apex ; style in- 

 serted in depressed summit of germen, apex stigmatose capitate- 

 5-lobed ; ovules in cells 4-a) , 2-seriate in internal angle. Capsule 

 oblong woody, verrucose or echinate at back, septicidal 5-vaWate; 

 valves free from septiferous and finally 5 -partible columella. Seeds 

 ascendent compressed on both sides in septa, above or on both sides 

 produced to imbricate wing ; hilum lateral at base ; cotyledons of 

 transverse exalbuminous embryo thick foliaceous ; radicle short. — 

 Trees or shrubs ; leaves opposite or alternate, imparipinnate or 1-3- 

 foliolate ; rachis alate {Strueleckia) ;* leaflets entire, punctate below; 

 flowers crowded in terminal or axillary very ramose compound cymi- 

 ferous racemes, articulate.* {Tropical and suhtrojncal Oceania.^) 



' Small, white. Gen. n. 6555. 



■^ Spec. 1. C. Swieknia DC. loc. cil.— Wight ■• Strzelecki/a F. Muell. JTook. Kcw Joiirn. ix. 



and Am. Prodr. i. 123.— Wight, III. t. 56 W.s.— 308. 



WALr. Hep. i. i36.—Steiet. nia CHnroxijIon Roxn. * Small, white. 



Fl. Coromand. 46, t. 64.— W. Sjjee. ii. 557.— PoiR. « RuMrit. Ilerb. Amboin. iii. 201, t. 129 [Arhor 



Diet. Suppl. iii. 575, n. 4. radiiIifera).—U\(i. Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. ii. 547.— 



'^ Flind. Toy. ii. 59, t. 1.— DC. Prar/n i. 625. — F. Muei.l. Fraeim. i. 65; iii. 25 ; Jourii. 



— A. Juss. Meliae. 101.— Spach, Suit, a Biiffan, Fharm. Sue. Vict. ii. 44.— Bekth. Fl. Austral, i. 



iii. 172.— Endl. 0,n. n. 5554.— B. H. Ge„. 340, 3S8.— Paxch. ct SisB. Bois N. Caleel. 228. — 



n. 37.— H. Bn. Fai/er Fam. Nnt. 407.— Ojle;/a Walp. &y>. i. 436 ; Aim. vii. 561. 

 A. CuNN. 3ook. Sot. Misc. i. 246, t. 54.— Endl. 



