TEREBINTH AGEM. 317 



ally 5, the margins inserted vertically on elongate 5-agonal receptacle ; 

 but the middle internal face of the stalk free ; ^ limb contorted or more 

 rarely imbricated, finally patent. Stamens equal in number to petals 

 alternating with them ; filaments superposed to spiu's of receptacle, 

 inserted higher, otherwise free ; anthers introrse, 2-rimose. Gerraen 

 stipitate oblique subglobose slightly gibbous ; style eccentric erect, 

 simple, stigmatiferous at apex ; ovule in cell 1-basilar descendent 

 from summit of funicle. Fruit subbaccate, corticate deformed, hence 

 sulcate ; seed conformed to cell with accrescent testa ; " cotyledons 

 of exalbuminous embryo comiato ; radicle short obtuse incurved.— 

 Trees; leaves alternate petiolatc simple oblong coriaceous; flowers ^ 

 iu much ramifled-compound axillary and terminal racemes. {Ind. 

 Arch. Malacassia}) 



19. Swintonia Griff." — Flowers hermaphrodite ; lobes of small 

 calyx, round imbricated. Petals 5, longer, adnate to base of cylin- 

 drical receptacle elongated between them and insertion of stamens 

 and calyx, imbricated, much accrescent. Stamens 5, alternipetalous 

 hypogynoxis free ; anthers introrse, 2-rimose. Germen sessile on 

 summit of ovoid receptacle, 1 -locular ; style straight, disciform 

 stigmatiferous at apex ; ovule basilar suspended from summit of 

 funicle. Fruit drupaceous subdry (?),• petals accrescent foliaceous 

 stipate ; seed ? — A large glabrous tree ; leaves alternate simple 

 oblong-lanceolate enth'e pellucid-punctuate ; flowers in large terminal 

 much racemose-compound clusters. {Malaisia^ Sumatra!') 



20. Melanorrhœa Wall.^— Flowers hermaphrodite (nearly of 

 Sivintonla) ; sepals 6, valvate, unequally-cut in calyx or calyptratc 

 deciduous coherent. Petals elongate, contorted or imbricated, 

 accrescent after anthesis ; stamens oo sometimes very numerous, 

 inserted on receptacle, dilated at base into a thick disk ; filaments 

 slender erect ; anthers introrse. Germen stipitate oblique, 1 -locular ; 

 style simple, stigmatiferous not dilated at apex ; ovule basilar 



1 Receptacle laterally clothed with the same Gen. 421, 1001, n. 14.— March. Aiiacard. Ill, 



numher. 188. — Astropetalum Grifp. Notul. iv. 411. — 



3 " Succo balsameo atro farcta." Anauxopetalum Teysm. et Binn. in Jouni. But. 



■' Flavid or ochracexis." Nccrl. i. 368. 



^ Spec. 6, 7. Bl. in Flora (1825) ; Bijdr. ^ Spec. 1. S.florida Griff, foe. cit. 



1159; Mus. Zwffd.-Bul. 182, t. 39.— MiQ. Fl. ' Ft. As. Jim: i. 9, t. 11, 12.— Endl. Qeii. n. 



Ind.-Bat. \. ^. ii. 622.— Walp. Eep. i. 655 j v. 5910.— B.H. (?f«. 421, n. 13.— March, ^«amj-d. 



415; Ami. ii. 283. 114, 187. 



^ "In Duchtre Rev. Bot. ii. 330."— B. H. 



