TEnEBTXTHAPK-'E. 319 



late membraneous, imbricated, in the female flower finally accres- 

 cent. Petals 5, longer, slightly unequal, imbricated. Stamens 5, 

 alternipetalous ; filaments alternating with the same number of 2-fid 

 glands, inserted round shortly cupular receptacle, very unequal ; 

 anthers introrse, 2-rimose. Germen (in male flower 0) obliqixe 

 compressed, 1 -locular ; branches of lateral style 3, unequally long, 

 capitate, stigmatiferous at apex ; ovule inserted at summit of short 

 ascendent funicle ; raicropyle superior. Drupe suborbicular oblique 

 compressed, much sm-j^assed in length by foliaceous accrescent calyx ; 

 epicarp subcrustaceous ; mesocarp densely fleshy (black) ; putamen 

 reniform corneous ; seed ascendent ; cotyledons of exalbuminous 

 embryo rather flat ; radicle aceumbent rather longer. A small glabrous 

 tree ; leaves alternate imparipinnate ; folioles opposite entire coria- 

 ceous ; rachis winged ; flowers in terminal much ramified-compound 

 racemes. [South Africa}) 



24. Loxopterygium Hook. Jun.- — Flowers polygamous (nearly 

 of Jstrnnium) ; calyx 5-lobed, imbricated. Petals same in number, 

 small, imbricated. Stamens equal in number to petals, alternate, 

 inserted below thick annular and obtusely lobed disk ; filaments 

 subulate ; anthers small, introrsely rimose. Germen 1 -locular 

 compressed-winged produced, and 3-capitellate-stigmatiferous ; ovule 

 basilar-erect inserted at summit of funicle ; micropyle inferior. Fruit 

 dry, produced at apex in suberect or falcate wing-shaped veined 

 samara ; testa of inverse seeds membraneous ; cotyledons of fleshy 

 embryo superior plano-convex. — Large trees ; leaves alternate im- 

 paripinnate ; folioles opposite petiolulate or sessile, entire or crenate- 

 dentate ; flowers in mucli ramified axillary racemes " paniculate.'' 

 ( Trop. America.") 



2.5. Botryceras W.^ — Flowers dioecious or polygamous, 4-5- 

 merous ; sepals oblong, imbricated, persistent. Petals same in 

 number alternate reflexed-patent, imbricated. Stamens equal in 

 number, inserted below a rather wide fleshy disk ; filaments free ; 

 antbers introrse, gibbous, :2 -rimose. Germen compressed-ovate ; 



• Spee. 1. L. alata HvEXHO. — Eckl. etZEYH. ■» In Bcrl. Mag. v. 396. — Endl. Q-en. n. 



^Eiium. 152.— Harv. et Sosd. Fl. Cap. i. 524. 5907.— B. H.Gc». 426, n. 33.— IMakch. ^«awrr/. 



— L. latifolia Presl. — AnasijUis angiistifolia 75, ITJ.—LawophyUusTnviiB.I'rodi-.Zl; Fl. 



E. Mey.— ^. latifolia E. Mey. Cap. 153.— Bernh. in Liiinœn, xii. 129-136.— 



- ffe«.419, n. 6.— March. Anacard. 180. Daplmitis SrEEso. tSi/st. i. 370. 



•■< Spec. 2, 3. 



