316 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



16 ? Tapirira Aubl.^ — Flowers polygamous, 4-5-merous, nearly 

 of Sorindcia and Notlwprotmn ; sepals and petals imbricated. 

 Stamens twice as numerous as petals inserted below cupular disk. 

 Germen in male flower 4-5-merous, more or less immersed in disk 

 and free from the style except at base ; in female flower 1 -locular ; 

 styles thick, 3-6 truncate or capitellate stigmatiferous at apex ; ovule 

 inserted somewhat below apex of cell, descendent ; micropyle supe- 

 rior. Drupe compressed ; exalbuminous seed and other characters 

 of Sorindeia. — Erect or scandent trees or shrubs; leaves alternate, 

 imparipinnate ; folioles often opposite ; inflorescence of Sorindeia or 

 Spondias. {Tropical Jsia, Africa, and America.'^) 



17 ? Hsematostaphis Hook, f.^ — Flowers diœcious 3-merous 

 subregular or slightly irregular ; male calyx small, 3-fld, imbricated 

 afterwards subvalvate. Petals 3, longer, often unequal, imbricated 

 Stamens 6, 2-seriate ; filaments slender, inserted outside between 

 2-fld, 3 lobes of interior disk ; 3, alternipetalous, much longer 

 anthers small, introrse, 2-rimose. Female flower ? Fruit drupa- 

 ceous oblong ; * putamen bouy ; cell inwardly subcarinate ; seed 

 descendent ; embryo ? — A small glabrous tree ; leaves alternate 

 imparipinnate, collected at summit of twigs deciduous ; folioles 

 alternate petiolulate oblong ; flowers ^' in elongated axillary racemes 

 much ramified " paniculate ; " pedicels bracteate at base. {Tropical 

 West Africa.*^') 



18. Gluta L.''' — Flowers hermaj)lu"odite, 4-6-or oftener 5-merous ; 

 calyx subspathaceous valvate, unequally -broken, caducous. Petals usu- 



' Gui'iii. i. (1775), 470, t. 188. — Joncfjuctia in Ann. So. Nat. sér. 5, xiv. 293.— Netto, in 



ScuuEii. G(«. (1789), 308.— Tff^iVia J.Gct.(1789), Ann. Sc. Nat. sér. 5, v. 86, t. 9 {Odiita). —Ohiv. 



372.— roiK.in iff»«/wi);'c(.Tii.583.— Lamk. /?^. t. Ft. trop. Aft: i. 445 (Orfjaa).— MiQ. Fl. Ind.- . 



283.— DCP/w/r. ii. 90.— Endt,. Gre.n. 5943.— i?rr/. i. p. ii. 622 (Orfj««).— Walp. Rep.i.ààH. 



B. H. Gen. 423, n. 20.— Mahch. Aiiacaid.U, v.412 (Cf/iraw), 416 ; ^«n.ii. 280; iii.843 (0(?î«b) ; 



103.— 6'ofa Jen-iet Neck. Elem. n. 9Sô.—Feffia \n. GiO {Odiiia). 



CoLEBB. in Ti-nns. Linn. Soc. xv. 564.— Ci/it'j- '■> Iji Tran^. Linn. Soc. xxiii. 169, t. 25.— B. 



carpa H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Spec. vii. 20, H, Gen. 422, n. 18. — March. Avacard. 29, 



t. 609. — Odiiia Eoxii. Fl. Ind. ii. 293.— 160. 



Endl. Oin. n. 5898. — March, ioc.cit. 38. — B.H. ■■ " Uv£e sanguinefe subsimilis, eduUs." 



Gen. 423, 1001, n. ii.—FhUhocUton Wall, in * Small, white. 



Trans. Med. et Phil. Soc. Calc. vii. 230. — Endl. ^ Spec. 1. B. Barteri Hook. f. loc. cit. — Oliv. 



ff(«. Suppl. iii. lOO. — Lannea Guill. et Peku, Fl. trop. Afr.\. m. — Walp.^m;;. ■s'ii. 646. 



Fl. Sen. Tent. i. 153, t. 4,2.—Harpep/ii/tlum ? Mantis^. 293.— J. Gen. 427.— DC. Prodr. i. 



Bernh. ex Kkauss, in Flora (1844), 349.— 501.— Endl. Gen. n. 6911.— B. H. &». 421, n. 



]Firtgenia {p3.Tt.) JuNOH. in J'focfl (1844), 624 10. — March. Anacard. 112, 189. — Syndesmia 



(ex Hassk. Cat. Hort. Bo;/. 247). Wall, in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. Zli.—Stagmaria 



^ Spec, about 25. Harv. et Sond. Fl. Cap. - Jack, Mai. Misc. ex. Hook. Comp. to Bot. Mag, 



i. 603 (Orf(««), à24,{B:arpephyllim).—Vi..eiTn. i. 267. 



