TE R E BINT H A CE3i. 



flowers, small and numerous, are collected at the summits of 

 the branches in clusters generally much ramified and composed of 

 small cymes. 



The carpels become quite fi-ee in Buchanania ^ (fig. 262-264), con- 

 sisting of trees from tropical Asia and Oceania, organized almost the 

 same as the Spondias ; but only one of these carpels has a fertile ovary, 

 containing an anatropous ovule, suspended at the summit of a funicle 

 which rises from the base of the cell. The micropyle is directed up- 

 wards and inwards. In other respects, the flowers are regular with a 

 short calyx, whose five divisions early cease to touch each other, five 

 imbricate petals, and ten stamens arranged on two verticels round 



Huclifouijiia aiigustifvlia. 



. 262. Flower without 

 the corolla (f). 



, 264. Flower without 

 the perianth. 



Fig. 263. Longitudinal 

 section of flower. 



a thick disk. The fruit is a monospermous drupe. Buchanania^ of 

 which twenty species have been described," consists of trees with 

 alternate, simple, entire, coriaceous leaves. The flowers, small and 

 numerous, are arranged in axillary and terminal clusters, more or 

 less ramified, and composed of cymes or glomerules. 



Sclerocarya,^ also closely allied to the Sponrlias, principally to 

 Poupartia, has polygamous flowers with imbricated calyx and corolla, 

 usually pentamerous, and from eight to fifteen stamens in the male 

 flower, whilst the hermaphrodite flower has fewer (partly sterile). But 

 the gynseceum differs from that of the Spondias (with which it was 



' RoxB. Ft. Cwumiuid. iii. 79, t. 282 ; Fl. Lid. 

 ii. 38.5.— DC. Pro(h: ii. 63.— Endl. Gen. n. 

 5919.— B. H. (?(;«. 421, n. 11.— March. Ana- 

 card. 118, WZ.—Coniorjiton Bl. Bijdr. 1156.— 

 Cambessedea K. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 1, ii. 386 

 (nee DC. nee Wight et Arn.). — Launzan 

 BuCHAN. inAsiat. Hes. v. 123. 



- Wight et Abn. Prodr. i. 169.— Deless. Ic. 



Sd. iii. t. 64.— Wight, Icon. t. 81, 101, 237.— 

 Mia. Fl. Ind.-Saf. ii.p. ii. 636; Suppl. i. 523 — 

 Walp. Sep. i. 556 ; v. 416 ; Ann. ii. 286 ; iv. 

 447 -, vii. 645. 



■' HocHST. in J^fora, xxvii. (1844), Bos. Beil. 

 1. — B. H. 6en. 427, n. 40.— Mauch. Anacai-d. 

 30, 161.— BiKEK, FL Mmirit. 62. 



