TEREBINTH AOE.^. 339 



cular or unequal-obovate, entire or emarginate, 3-5-nerved at base, 

 — A high scandent sarmentose shrub ; wood ijorons ; leaves alternate 

 petiolate entire or dentate, 7-9-nerved at cordate base, acute or acu- 

 minate ; flowers in supra-axillary simple or slightly ramified slender 

 elongated racemes ; each 1-bracteate ; pedicel bearing below apex 

 a short 4-6-partite membranous open calycule ^ scarcely removed 

 from perianth, (India."^) 



64. Pyrenacantha Hook,^ — Flowers (nearly of Natsiatum ; 

 diœcious ecalyculate ; leaves of perianth 3-5, partly free, valvate. 

 Stamens same in number alternate (in female flower very small and 

 sterile) inserted under the glabrous or hairy rudin^cnt of the gynse- 

 ceum ; anthers introrse ; connective dorsal glandulose ; cells at base 

 and apex distinct, longitudinally rimose. Germen 1-locular {oî Natsia- 

 tum); stigma sub-sessile discoid raultiradiate ; ovules collateral ; micro- 

 pyle introrse superior obturate by haii'S springing from funicle. Drupe 

 (nearly of Natsiatum) rather compressed ; putamen outwardly rugu- 

 lose, inwardly spinulescent-verrucose, 1-spermous ; cotyledons of albu- 

 minous embryo large foliaceous, 3-5-nerved at base. — Scandent 

 shrubs or undershrubs ; branches slender ; leaves alternate petiolate, 

 pilose or rather scabrous, entire, dentate, or lobed, 3-5-nerved at 

 base; flowers in supra-axillary spikes, with 1, 2 superposed 

 gemmules; male long filiform; female spicato-capitate or by abortion 

 1-flowered, naked at base.* [Trop, and South Africa, India.'') 



65, Chlamydocarya H. Bn,^ — Flowers diœcious; male.,.?; 

 female 4-merous (nearly of Pi/rcnacantha ) ; leaves of jjerianth sub- 

 free or connate at base, reflexed at apex, Staminodes 4, alternate. Ger- 

 men sessile, I -Jocular, 2-ovulate; style short thick tubular afterwards 

 cut in 00 linear erect stigmatiferous lobes. Drupe unequally com- 

 pressed, adnate to middle with cupuliform accrescent receptacle, 

 otherwise free and enclosed within and crowned with persistent peri- 



i "Calycem" (Auctt.). Si/st. i. 373 (not Schott). — Sardiim Soland. 



. 2 Spec. 11 N. herpeticum Ham. loc. cit.— Miq. MSS. (ex H. Bn. Prodi:). 



Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. i. 797 (Nansiatum). — Walp. * A genua very near Natsiatum, scarcely dif- 



Rep. i. 98. — Sijcios pentandnis W^all. Cat. fering excepting in its ecalyculate flowers, and 



' Bot. Misc. ii. 107, t. Suppl. 10 ; Niger, 1.5. perhaps better referred to a section of that 



— Endl. Gen. n. 1893. — Tul. Ann. Se. Nat. sér. genus. (H. Bn. Prodr. loc. cit.) 



3, XV. 251 {P!/renacanthus).—B..\BN. Pull. Soc. s Spec, about 6. Harv. T!u:s. Cap. i. 12, t. 23. 



Sot. de Fr. iv. 991; Et. Ge'n. Euphori. .662; — Sond. iiJi«œ(J,xxiii. 107. — ^.Bs.Adansonia, 



Prodr. IS.— Adelanl/ius En-dl. Gen. n. 6839; x. 270. 



Suppl. ii. 31.— H. Bn. Euphorb. dQi.—Caeanilla « Adansouia, x. 276 ; Prodr. 20. 

 TpuNB. Prodr. 31. — Moldenhamra Spreno. 



