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bifid plate, loaded with bushy and upright hairs. The ovary has 

 three cells surmounted by a style with trilobate stiginatiferous 

 apex, to which succeeds an ovoid, acuminate achene. The Talisias 

 are trees from tropical America, with compound pinnate leaves. 

 Lecaniodiscus,, inhabiting western tropical Africa, has flowers regular 

 or nearly so, gamosepalous imbricate calyx, and no corolla. The 

 disk, traversed inwardly by ten radiating grooves, like that of 

 Eriocœlum, surrounds an equal number, or nearly so, of stamens 

 with elongated anthers ; and the trimerons gyuœceum becomes a 

 drupaceous fruit, but little fleshy, or an achene analogous to that of 

 Talisia. The Jugeras, trees from the Indian Archipelago, have from 

 three to five imbricate sepals, an equal number of imbricate petals 

 and eight stamens interior to the disk. The jjetals are lined by a 

 cucullate scale. All these characters give them a great resem- 

 blance to Ciipania, Nephelium, and Sapindus, but their entire fruit is 

 analogous to that of the Talisia and Lecaniodiscus, more fleshy, and 

 with three or fom' cells each containing an exarillate seed. Lepis- 

 anthes have very nearly the same flowers, with four or five parts, 

 an imbricate perianth and petals lined by an entire or bilobate cu- 

 cullate scale. But the equally entire fruit has two or thi-ee indé- 

 hiscent cells, and is a drupe with more or less slight mesocarp ; this 

 genus, formed of trees from the Indian Archipelago and Timor, 

 with pari- or impari-pinnate leaves, is then closely allied to the 

 preceding. It is the same with Anomosanthes, whose flower is 

 organised like it, but whose disk, although it completely surrounds 

 the gynaîceum, is more developed on one side than on the other. 

 The fruit is also simple, coriaceous, indéhiscent. It consists of Indian 

 trees. The Macphcrsonia, shrubs of Madagascar, have flowers re- 

 gular in all their parts, analogous to those of the preceding genera, very 

 small petals and a dry, stipitate, globular, indéhiscent fruit ; but they 

 are immediately distinguished by their decompositc-bipinnate leaves. 



The Glennieas are allied both to the preceding genera and to 

 Eriocceltim. They have the five valvate sepals of the latter; and 

 the petals are short, moi'e wide than long. But the trilocular ovary 

 becomes a spherical, fleshy fruit, hardly marked by obtuse grooves 

 corresponding to one, two, or three cells. The seeds are exarillate, 

 and the compound leaves have only one or two paii's of foholes. 

 They are trees from Ceylon. The Schlcicheras, inhabiting tropical 



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