TEREBINTHA OEM. 



Tapirira (fig. 302, 303) is also closely allied to Sorindeia by the 

 diplostemonous flowers and unicarpellary gynseceum, with the same 

 insertion of the descendent ovule; but they have an imbricated 



Tapirira [Odina) Wodier. 



Fig. 302 Male flower {{). 



Fig. 303. Longitudinal section of male flower. 



corolla like Schiniis ; and, on the other side, if we only consider the 

 gynESCoum of the male flowers, which, although sterile, is formed of 

 four or five carpels in great part independent, they affect the closest 

 affinities with the Spondias, especially those of the sub-genus Pou- 

 pariia (fig. 258), only differing from them by a unilocular ovary and 



GUtta Benghas. 



Fig. 304. Hermaphrodite Fig. 307. Hermaphrodite flower, 

 flower (f). the perianth removed. 



Fig. 306. Longitudinal section of 

 hermaphi-odite flower. 



fruit. They are trees and shrubs, sometimes climbing, with irajjari- 

 pinnate leaves, having 4- or 5-merous flowers, which have been ob- 

 served in all tropical regions of the globe, except Australia.^ 



Gluta (fig. 304-307) has very nearly the same organisation 



1 We can only doubtfully place near Tapi- 

 rira, Hœmatostaphis Barieri, a small tree from 

 western tropical Africa, with compound impari- 

 pinnate leaves, whose male flowers are trime- 



rous, with imbricate diplostemonous perianth, 

 and the fruit a drupe with hard stone, containing 

 a descendent exalbuminous seed. The female 

 flower is unknown. 



