818 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



suspended from funicle. Fruit long stipitate, enlarged at base by- 

 stellate patent foliaceous much accrescent petals, subglobose, reniform 

 or depressed, indéhiscent. Cotyledons of thick seed conformed 

 to cell, plano-convex ; radicle short accumbent ascendent. — -Large 

 trees with varnish like sap ; leaves alternate simple entire coriaceous 

 exstipulate ; flowers ^ in axillary much compound-ramified racemes. 

 {Malaisia, Bornea, Birmah.^) 



"ll. Astronium J-icq.' — Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamous 

 (nearly of Mclamrrhœa) ; sepals 5, or orbicular (coloured), imbricated, 

 finally accrescent and scarious, persistent round base of fruit. 

 Petals 5, alternate, sometimes in female flower small squaraiform, 

 imbricated. Stamens 5, alternipetalous, inserted below base of 

 annular 5-lobed disk ; filaments free short ; anthers (effete in female 

 flower), introrse, 2-rimose. Germen sessUe, 1-locular; style 

 branches 3, short ; inserted at summit of germen, stigmatiferous at 

 apex ; ovule descendent from wall of cell near apex ; micropyle 

 superior. Fruit drupaceous or coriaceous, oblong or subglobose 

 rostrate, involucrate with foliaceous calyx; testa of oblong seed 

 membraneous ; radicle of exalbuminous embryo short straight accum- 

 bent ; cotyledons straight plano-convex. — Large trees ; leaves alter- 

 nate imparipiunate, folioles- opposite, entire or crcnate ; flowers '^ 

 crowded in much ramified-compound axillary and terminal racemes. 

 [South trop. Cont. America and Antilles}) 



22. Parishia Hook, Jttn." — Flowers (nearly of Astronium) 4- 

 merous ; sepals valvate. Petals oblong, erose, imbricated. Fruit 

 ovoid tomentose, surrounded by 4 large obtuse veined sepals. Other 

 characters of Astronium. — A choice tree ; leaves alternate impari- 

 piunate ; folioles GO, alternate petiolate coriaceous; inflorescence 

 large (ferruginous-tomentose) uutant. [3IalaisiaJ) 



23. Loxostylis Spreng.® — Flowers polygamous ; sepals 5, lanceo- 



1 Medium. —March, in Aftr. Vidd. 3Icdd. Ejob. (1873), 



- Spec. 3, 4. -Waip. Rep. i. 555. 413.— W alp. Ann. vii. 646. 



3 S<(->ï;. ^me»-. 261,t. 181, fig. 96.— K. in^Jiw. ' In Tiaiis. Linn. Soc. xxiii. 169, t. 26. — B. . 



Sc. Nat. sér. 1, ii. 341.— DC. Prodr. u. 65.— H. Qcn. 424, n. 24. 



Endl, Gen. n. 5909.— B. H. Ge)i. 423, 1000, n. ' Spec. 1. P. wsignis Hook. f. he. cit.— 



24.— March. Anac. 77, 199 (part.). — Myraero- Astronium in.iiffne1d.Ancu. Anncard. 79, 179. 



draoH Allem. in Trab. Comm. Sc. de Expl. Sect. « Ex Reichb. Ic. E.rot. t. 205.— Eckl. et 



Bot. 3 t. 1 2. Zeyh. Emim. PI. Cap. 162. — JLvdl. Oen. n. 



■1 Small, 'bracteate. 5908.— B. H. Gen. 421, n. 12.— March. 



* Spec. 8, 9. Griseb. Fl. Brit. W.-Ind. 176. dnacard. 80, 180.— ^«asyWts E Met. in exa. 



— Tr. et Pl. in Ann. Sc. Nat. sér. 5, xiv. 288. Dreg. (ex. Endl.). 



