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female flower hypogynous cuj)ular ; germen 2-4-celled ; ovules 

 2-nate ; style branches 2, 4, pctaloid-clilatecl multi-partite reflexed 

 rigid persistent. Fruit more or less fleshy or suberous, usually 

 pyramidate-3-coecous ; seed exarillate ; cotyledons of albuminous 

 embryo wide curved, auriculate 5-plinerved at base ; one convex, 

 the other concave. — Trees ; juice sometimes viscous resinous or cera- 

 ceous ; twigs strong subangular nodose ; leaves alternate collected 

 at summit of twigs, petiolate simple penninerved glabrous coriaceous ; 

 male flowers crowded in short capitate pedunculate catkin ' ; bracts 

 few wide petaloid^ inserted at summit of peduncle, and the whole of 

 the bud-shaped inflorescence at fii'st involucrate ; female axUlary or 

 supra-axillary solitary pedunculate. {Trop. East, and West. Africa 

 Cont. and Iiis.^) 



136. Bischoffia Bl.* — Flowers dioecious apetalous; male nearly 

 of Ilymcnocardia (or Securincga) ; sepals 5, subimbricate or induplicate- 

 subcucuUate. Stamens same in number opposite, inserted below 

 rudiment of short gynseceum crenulate 5-lobed at apex; anthers 

 adnate, laterally or extrorsely rimose. Female calyx 5-partite. 

 Germen 3-4-locular, surrounded at base with 4, 5, or staminodes ; 

 cells 2-ovulate ; style branches entire recurved. Fruit subfleshy ; 

 endocarp pergamaceous, 3-coccous ; seeds exarillate scantily albumi- 

 nous. — Trees; leaves alternate petiolate pinnate- o-foliolate ; folioles 

 crenate-dentate penninerved petiolulate ; flowers ^ in more or less 

 ramified compound axillary racemes. {Asia and warm Oceania.^) 



137. Piranhea H. Bn.'^ — Flowers, it seems, dioecious ; sepals 4-6, 

 finally patent, imbricated. Stamens oo (8-15); filaments free exserted, 

 inserted on convex receptacle ; glands intermixed nearly same in 

 number unequally-capitate shortly stipitate ; anthers iutrorse sub-2- 

 dymous, longitudinally rimose. Female calyx 6-partite ; folioles 2- 

 seriate imbricated. Germen surrounded at base by 6 glands (stami- 

 nodes ?) ; cells 3, opposite exterior sepals; style branches 3, subulate 



1 Simulating a large ilower. Journ. xiv. 298. — Sti/lodisciis Benn. Fl. Jav. 



2 When dry red, sometimes very fragrant. Rar. 133, t. 29. — Endl. Oen. n. 5858'. 

 '' Spec, ad 7. M. Aug. in Flora (1864), 617; * Male very small crowded. 



in Seetn. Journ. i. 332. — H. Bn. in Adansonia, ^ Spec. 1, 2. EoxB. FL Ind. iii. 728 [Andrach- 



i. 81 ; ii. 43 j xi. 176. ne).— Hook. Icon. t. 844.— Wight, Icon. t. 1880 



■ * Bijdr. 1168 (Sischofa). — H. Bn. Euphorb. {Microclus). — Dcne. in Jaequem. Voy. Bot. 152, 



594, t. 26, fig. 25-32.— BI. Arg. Frodr. -478.- t. 154.— Walp. Ann. i. 524. 



Microclus Wight et Arn. in Edinb. New. Phil. ^ In Adansonia, vi. 236, t. 6. 



