310 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



or serrate often coriaceous pellucid-piinctuate ; rachis simple or 

 winged ; flowers crowded in lateral or axillary racemes more or 

 less ramified eymiferous. (All trop, regions.) See p. 260. 



5 ? Crepidospermum Hook, f.^ — Flowers polygamous-diœcious 

 (nearly of Burscra); calyx small, 5-dentate. Petals 5, longer, 

 valvate, incurved at apes. Stamens 5, alternipetalous, inserted 

 below thick pv;lvinate disk ; filaments free ; anthers oblong in- 

 trorse. Germen rudimentary thin subulate. Female fiower? Fruit 

 drupaceous,'^ compressed-subquadrate apiculate ; pyrenas 1-3, cbar- 

 taceous and crustaceous ; seeds 1, 2, descendent ; others usually ab- 

 ortive very small ; cotyledons of exalbuminous horseshoe-shaped em- 

 bryo oblong uncinate-inctu'vcd ; radicle short superior. — A balsamic 

 shrub ; branches elongate-sarmentaceous ; twigs, leaves and inflores- 

 cence i^ubescent ; leaves alternate imparipinnate ; folioles petiolate ser- 

 rate acuminate ; axillary inflorescence of ^MZ-sera. {East Peni.*) 



6. Balsamea Gled.^ — Flowers polygamous (nearly of Burscra) 

 rarely 5-6 merous, very often 4-morous; calyx cupular or urccolar 

 dentate, valvate, persistent. Petals elongate erect or patent at a])ex, 

 valvate or induplicate. Stamens 2-seriate, twice as numerous as 

 the stamens sub-hypogynously or much oftener slightly perigyn- 

 ously inserted with them on margin of usually rather concave recep- 

 tacle ; filaments free, more or less dilated at base ; the oppositi- 

 petalous shorter ; anthers introrse, 2-rimose (effete in female flower). 

 Germen free (rudimentary in male flower), inserted on summit of 

 depressed disk; germen 3- or oftener 2-locular ; style short, stigma- 

 tiferous obtusely 3-4-lobed at apex ; ovules in cell 2, collaterally 

 descendent; micropyle extrorse superior. Drupe ; exocarp 2-6-valved; 

 pyrenas 1-4, 1-spermous; cotyledons of exalbuminous embryo 



1 Oen. 325, n. 10.— March, in Adansonia, à Jittfon, ii. 235.— Endl. Och. n. 5930.— 0. 



viii. 65. Berg, in Sot. Zeit. (1862), 152.— B. H. Geii. 



■ Purple, rather large. 323, 993, n. 4. — March, in Admisonia, viii. 34, 



3 Virescent. 67, t. 2, 5. — Protium Wight et Arn. Prodr. i. 



■> Spec. 1 C. Spriieei Hook. f. loc. cit. (1834), 176 (nee Bukm.).— B. H. Gen. 323, n. 



s Infer/. I'rr7„:,idl.m. (1782), 127, t. 3, fig. 2. ô.— Bemprickia Ehreni). in Liiinœa, iv. 396.— 



(The name best founded according to the laws of B. H. Gen. 327, n. 18. — March, in Adansonia, 



nomenclature andthcreforerightlypreferred.) — v\\\. 69. — Heudelntia A.Rich. Fl. Sen. Tcnt.i. 



Commiphora jAOa. Uort. Schœnlir. ii. (1797), 66, 150, t. 39. — Protionopsis Bl. Mus. Zuffd.-Pat. i. 



t. 249. — Endl. Oen. n. 6881. — Bnhamodcndrum 229, not. — Hitzcria Kl. in Pet. Mossamb. Pot. 



K. in An». Sc. Nat. sor. 1, ii. 348 (1824).— DC. 89.— B. U. Gen. 427, n. 39.— Palsamop/ilœos O. 



Prodi: ii. 76 {Bahamodendron). — Spach. Suit. Berg. loc. cit. 163. 



