TEREB1NTHACE2E. 327 



usually opposite ; flowers in compouncl-cymiferoiis racemes terminal 

 or in the axils of the upper leaves. {Trop. South Jmerica.) 



40 ? Pentaspadon Hook. Jtjn,^ — Flowers hermaphrodite (nearly 

 of HoUgarua) ; lohes of short calyx slightly imbricated, afterwards 

 not contiguous. Petals imbricated. Stamens 10, inserted round 

 disk, of which 5 alteruipetalous are fertile ; anthers introrse ; others 

 oppositipetalous same in number smaller sterile, glandular-capitate 

 at apex. Germen 1, inserted at summit of rather concave receptacle ; 

 style lateral, stigmatiferous at apex ; funicle inserted laterally on 

 wall of germen below style, bearing a suspended ovule at apex. 

 Fruit ? — A tall tree ; leaves alternate imparipinnate ; axillary in- 

 florescence and other characters of Holigarna, Sorindeia or Drhny- 

 carpiis^. [Borneo and Sumatra.^) 



41? Corynocarpus FoRST.5 — Flowers hermaphrodite; sepals 5, 

 unequal, connate at base, imbricated. Petals 5, alternate longer, im- 

 bricated. Stamens 5, fertile opposite petals and adnate to them at base ; 

 filaments otherwise fi-ee ; anthers introrse 2-rimose, Staminodcs (?) 5, 

 alteruipetalous glanduliform. Germen free, 1-locular ; style subapical, 

 capitellate stigmatiferous at apex ; ovule 1 , descendent, inserted below 

 apex ; micropyle superior, ventral below insertion ; raphe dorsal. Fruit 

 drupaceous ; putamen thin coriaceous fibrous ; cell of seed strictly 

 filled ; testa membranous, veined ; cotyledons of thick embryo plano- 

 convex ; radicle short superior. — Glabrous small trees ; leaves 

 alternate simple integerrimous penniuerved ; flowers in terminal 

 ramified cymiferous racemes." {Netv Zccdand?) 



1 Spec, about 4. March, loc. cit. 162.— Walp. ^ Char. Gen. 31, 1. 16.— L. fll. Siqjpl. 156.— 



Ann. iv. 44S. J. Oen. 2S8.— Lamk. Diet. i. 107 ; 111. t. 143.— 



-Trans. Linn. Soc. xxiii. 168, t. 24 (1860). A. Cunn. in Ann. Nat. Mist. iv. 260.— Endl. 



— B. H. <?c». 419, n. h.—Nothoprotium Mia. G=w. d. 4232 l.—B. H. <?<!«.425,n.32.— March. 



Fl. Ind.-ISat. Suppl. i. 627 (1861).— B. H. Gen. Anacard. 59, 167.— H. Bn. in Adansonia, x. 



326, n. 13 (Burserea).—MA-RCK. Anacard. 92, 264 ; xi. 203.— Merretia Soland. MSS. (ex 



186. ' Endl.). 



^ A genus hence allied to the preceding, " A genus anomalous in order, formerly 



whence Tapirira, from a section of which reckoned among the Berheridacece, Ardisiea, 



Odina diifers only by carpel, hence closely con- and Mi/rsinetc. 



necting the Anacardiece with Spondias. 7 Spec, perhaps 2, one South Caledonian, the 



■* Spec. 1. P. Motkiji Hook. f. loc. cit. — other C. lavigatus Pohst. — Hook. f. Fl. Nov. 



Nothoprotium sumatrannm Mm. loc. cit. ; Ann. Zel. i. 48 ; Bandb. N.-Zeal. Fl. 46.— Bot. Mag. 



Mus. Lugd.-Bat. iii. 90. t. 4379. 



