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membranous contortuplicate ; radicle short superior. — Trees or bal- 

 samic shrubs; branches often spinescent; leaves alternate, 1-3 -folio- 

 late or imparl pinnate ; folioles entire or serrate ; flowers axillary or 

 lateral, shortly or long racemose ; racemes sometimes fasciculate, 

 cymiferous, more or less ramified and composite. {South West, and 

 Tropical Cont. ami ins. Fast. Asia.^) 



7? Dasycarya Liebm.-. - -- Flo\yers polygamous; receptacle 

 shortly cuimlar, clothed inwardly with disk 10-crenate at margin 

 annular clasping base of germen. Sepals 5, free or scarcely 

 connate at base, valvate, persistent. Petals 5, alternate, longer, in- 

 duplicate-valvate or scarcely imbricated. Stamens 10, 2-seriate 

 verticillate ; filaments exterior to disk free ; alternipetalous slightly 

 longer ; anthers introrse, 2-rimose. Germen (rudimentary in male 

 flower) free ; style short, stigmatifcrous at apex, 3-r5-lobed ; cells 

 2-ovulate; ovules collaterally descendent incompletely anatropous 

 subfalcate ; micropyle extrorse superior. Drupe scantily fleshy rather 

 villoso ; putamen usually 3-locular ; seeds in cells 1-3 solitary ; 

 radicle of exalbuminous rather thick embryo superior inflexed. — A 

 tree grey or tawny -haired ; leaves alternate collected at summit of 

 twigs imparipinnate ; folioles opposite, very shortly petiolulate, 

 entire acumiuate ; flowers in axillary slender alternately cymiferous 

 spikes. (3fc.vico.^) 



8 ? Paiveusea Welw.* — Flowers diœcious apetalous ; male calyx 

 minutely oblique or gibbous, unequally-6-8-lobed, imbricated. Sta- 

 mens 6-8, inserted round crenate disk ; filaments fi-ee thin; anthers 

 basifixed short ; cells 2 -laterally rimose. Female calyx larger than 

 male. Germen free, 2-locular, surrounded at base by six staminodes 

 ciliate hypogynous, sometimes connate in ring ; branches of short 

 style 2, reniform stigmatiferous at apex; ovules in cells 2-nate de- 

 scendent ; micropyle extrorse superior.^ Fruit (immature) stipate by 



' Spec, about 15, Forsk. Descr. JEij.-Arab. [Balsamodendron) ; ii. 830 ; Ann. ii. 289 {Bid- 



1^ l^Amyris). — Roxn. Fl. Ind. ii. 244 [Amijris). smnodendron) ; ™. 546 [Balsamodendron), 547 



— Arn. in Ann. Nat. Hist. iii. 87. — Hakv. et [Biilsanwphlœos), 648 [Hitzeria). 



SoND. Fl. Cap. i. 526 {Balsamodendron).— ^ In Viddens/c. Meddel. XJolienh. {1&53), 9S.— 



KoTSCH. et Peye. in PI. Tinn. ii. t. 5, B.— B. H. Gen. 427, n. 38.— Makch. Anacard. 160. 



Hook. f. in Hook. Kew Jottrn. i. 259, t. 8, 9. — ■' Spec. 1. B. grisea Liebm. Ibc. cit. — Walp. 



ScHWEiNF. Beitr. Fl. ^th. i. 30.— Oliv. Fl. Ann. iv. 447. 



Trop. Afr. i. 324 [Balsamodendron), 328 [Eem- ^ In Trans. Linn. Soe. xxvii. 20, t. 7.— B. IT. 



prichitt), 450 [ffitzeria). — H. Bn. in Adansoma, Gen. 993, n. 5 n. 



xi. 180.— Walp. Hep. i. 557 [Protinm), 558 ^ Obtm-ated ? 



