TEREBINTHAOEM. 315 



ramified compound-cymiferous racemes, axillary or terminal. {South 

 America.) See p. 266. 



14. Sorindea Dup.-Th.^ — Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamous- 

 diœcious (nearly of Schiims), i, 5-merous ; lobes of lobate or den- 

 tate calyx later not contiguous. Petals longer, valvate. Stamens 

 4, 5, altcrnipetalous (in female flower sterile) or in male flower 8-20, 

 inserted from base to middle of annular, or cupular thick disk ; 

 filaments free unequal subulate ; anthers introrse, 2-rimose. Gor- 

 men free (in male flower minute or 0), 1-locular; style thick, stig- 

 matiferous 3-lobed at apex ; ovule subbasilar or laterally inserted, 

 suspended from sumnxit of funiole, and more or less high adnate to 

 walls of germen {Mauria -) ; micropylc superior, usually more or 

 less obturated from dilatation of summit of funicle. Drupe more 

 or less compressed ; endocarp chartaceous or filamentose ; embryo of 

 inverse seeds exalbuminous ; cotyledons thick-fleshy; radicle 

 superior. — Trees or small trees ; leaves alternate, simple or oftener 

 piniiate, flowers ^ in compound axillary and terminal racemes. [Trop. 

 America^ Africa^ and Oceania.*) 



15. Solenocarpus Wight & Arn.^ — Flowers nearly of (6'onWe/a) 

 hermaphrodite, o-merous ; calyx dentate, imbricated. Petals 5, 

 valvate. Stamens 10, 2-seriate, inserted below disk. Germen 1- 

 locular ; style simple thickly clavato, oblique truncate stigmatiferous 

 at apex ; ovule descendent nearly from apex of cell ; micropyle 

 superior. Drupe oblique oblong truncate ; mesocarp oily ; putamen 

 bony ; seed linear ; cotyledons of exalbuminous fleshy embryo, linear ; 

 radicle superior short. — A tree ; leaves alternate imparipinnate 

 collected at summit of twigs; folioles opposite; terminal 

 inflorescence and other characters of Sorindeia.^ {Eastern IndiaJ) 



1 Dvr.-Hu.Oen.Knv.Madag. 23.— K. va. Ann. vii. 11, t. 60.5, 606 (iKawria).— Wight et Akn. 



Sc. Nat. set. 1, ii. 342.— DC. Prodr. ii. 80.— Prorlr. i. 170.— Hook. Bot. Misc. iii. 175.— Tr. 



Spach, Suit, à Buffun, ii. 245.— Endl. Gen. n. et Pl. in Ann. Sc. Nat. sér. 5, xiv. 290 



.5895.— B. H. Qen. 419, n. 4. — March. Anacurd. [Mauria). — Tobr. in Emor. Rep. Bot. t. 7 



42, IGT.—Bupiusia Rich. Guill. et Pere. FL {Lithrœa).— Olio. Ft. trop. Afr. i. 439, 444 



Sen. Tent. i. 148, t. 38. — Endl. Oen. n. 5894. {Trichosci/pha). — Benth. Fl. Austral, i. 490 



— Euroschinus Hook. f. Oen. 422, n. 16. — Tri- {Furoschinus). — 'WKLv.Eep.i. 411,413 {Mauria) 



choseypha Hook. r. op. cit. 423, n. 21 (ex 550; v. 411, 412; Ann. i. \m {Mauria) ; ii. 



March.). 280 ; iv. 446 {Mmiria). 



■ K. in Ann. Sc. Nat. sér. 1, ii. 338.— DC. ■■ Prodr. 171.— Endl. Oen. n. 5900.— B. H. 



Prodr. ii. 73. — Endl. Oen. n. 5903. — March. Gch. 422, n. 19. — March. Anacard. 116, 192. 



loc. cit. 46. — B. H. Gen. 426, n. 34. — Lithrœa <• A genus allied to Sorindeia, ha-snng the 



MiERS, Trav. Chil. ii. 529. — Endl. Gen. n. game perianth and sometimes the same andro- 



5904 (part.). — B. H. Gen. 418 {Rhus). — March. ceum, diffeiing by simple germen and simple 



he. cit. 93, 184. style. 



3 Small, white, yellow or purplish. ' Spec. 1, S. indica Wight et Arn. loc cit. 



■• Spec, about 25. H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Spec. 



