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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



other genera, in i^artiGulav A7iogeissus, Buchenavia, Bucida, Chuncoa, 

 Conocarpus, Pentaptera, Bamatuella, which we can separate from it 

 only as sub-genera. Terminalia proper has hermaphrodite, poly- 

 gamous or dioecious flowers, the narrow receptacle of which, after 



Terminalia mauritiana. 



Fig. 23G. Flower (J). 



Fij?. 235. Floriferous branch. 



Fig. 237. Long, 

 sect, of flower. 



enveloping the ovary, immediately expands into a cup similar to that 

 of Comhretum, and bears four or &ve valvate sepals, two series of 

 stamens inserted around the base of the style, ordinarily surrounded 



by a hairy epigynous disk annular or 



Tenuinalia {Auo^elssus) lei.carpa. j^^^^^ j^ ^^^ Uuilocular OVary are 



Ji I 17 found two or three descending ovules 



A!wjto1i- ][ similar to those of Laguncularia. 



j3S//^=^ Jttt^^^ ^^^ fruit, not, as usual, crowned with 



SW^H^ mH Vv ^^^^ caducous calyx, is very variable 



^'^^^ ^li JIMii .'■ii [j^ appearance, consistence, and form. 



In Badamia^ Myrobalanus, and Pa- 

 mcea, it is ovoid, with a roundish or 

 angular put amen. In Cato.jpija and 

 Anogeissus, it is compressed or dilated 

 into two marginal wings (fig. 238, 239). In Chuncoa, species whose 

 leaves are frequently opposite and furnished with two glands at the 

 base of the inferior surface, it is small, coriaceous, and prolonged to 

 2-5 expanded membranous wings. In Pentaptera^ the leaves of 

 which have ordinarily the same characters, the putamen is osseous 

 or woody, aod the wings are 5-7 in number. BamatuGlla^ from 



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Fig. 238. Capitulc 

 of fruit. 



Fig. 239. Single 

 fruit (i). 



