830 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



style short lateral oblique, o-4-lobcd stigmatiferous at apex ; ovule 

 not far from apex of cell descendent ; micropyle superior. Drupe 

 compressed sub-ovate scantily fleshy, persistently accrescent with 

 lateral style ; exocarp narrow winged, thinly veined ; putaraen hard 

 pale ; embryo of descendent seed exalbuminous ; cotyledons plano- 

 convex rather fleshy ; radicle short superior. — A glabrous shrub ; 

 leaves alternate petiolate simple serrate coriaceous ; flowers ^ in very 

 ramified compound terminal racemes ; branches of female inflorescence 

 finally compressed accrescent-dilated thick pectinate incurved and 

 hard ; " bracts persistent. {South Africa.^) 



26. Smodingium E. Mey.' — Flowers polygamous ; calyx small, 

 .5-deutate persistent. Petals .5, oblong patent, imbricate, deciduous. 

 Stamens 5, alternipetalous, inserted below annular disk. Germen 

 sessile, 1-locular ; styles 3, capitellate stigmatiferous at apex ; 

 "ovule descendent from summit of cell." Fruit compressed samaroid 

 oblong, unequally winged at margin, vittate on both sides f putamen 

 coriaceous ; embryo of compressed subreniform seeds rather fleshy, 

 exalbuminous ; cotyledons thin unequally-oblong ; radicle superior 

 conical uncinate aecumbeut. — A glabrous shrub ; leaves alternate 

 petiolate, 3 -folio! ate ; folioles serrate; flowers" in compound 

 " panicidate " terminal racemes. (South Africa, Mexico/) 



27 ' Faguetia March.* — Flowers diœcious regular, usually 4- 

 merous; lobes of gamophjdlous calyx imbricated. Petals imbricated. 

 Stamens equal in number to petals, shorter alternate ; filaments free 

 subulate inserted below slightly perigynous crenulate disk incurved 

 at apex ; anthers introrse, 2-rimose. Germen rudimentary in male 

 flower, free, strictly surrounded by base of disk, 1-locular; style 

 very short, 2-3-stigmatiferous, lobed at apex. Ovule 1, laterally 

 ascendent, suspended from summit of funicle ; micropyle introrse 

 superior obturated. Fruit long samaroid " lanceolate sub- falcate, 

 compressed, acute at apex, at base attenuate in long wing ; cell 

 sub-apiculate, 1-spermous ; testa of descendent (immature) seed 

 membraneous ; cotyledons of exalbuminous embryo. 



' Small. Anacard. 83, 178. 



- Uepresenting a subfasciate monstrous horn. » Stripes resinous longitudinal black. 



^ Spec. 1. B. laurinum W. loc. cit. — Harv. <■ Small, crowded, 



et SoNi). Fl. Cap. i. 524. — Laarophylliis capen- ? Spec. 3. H. Bn. in Adaiisotiin, xi. 182. — 



sis Thunb. — Daphititis capensis Spkeno. loc. Walp. Ann. vii. 6-i6. 



ei^ 8 jiiacard. 84, 176, t. 2. 



•■ In cxs. Bleu, (ex Harv. et Sond. Fl. Cap. '> Recalls Samara of the Frnxineœ. 

 i. 523).— B. H. Gen. 423, n. 17.— Maech. 



