396 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



thick plano-convex, curved or sometimes convohite.^ — Trees or shrubs ; 

 leaves alternate pinnate or simi^le (Pajtpœa '); folioles entii-e, dentate 

 or serrate ; the lowest sometimes smaller (Pometiay suborbicular 

 stipuliform ; flowers in axillary and terminal subsimple or more or 

 less ramified compound-cymiferous racemes.^ [Trop. rcg. of Old 

 World.*) 



8. Podonephelium H. Bn. — Flowers polygamous-dioecious 

 (nearly of Nq)Jielium) ; calyx short cupular, shortly 5-dentate or 

 sometimes subentire. Petals 0. Stamens 5-8 (in female flower or 

 few fertile or antherless) exserted below rudiment of gynseceum, 

 interior to cupular crenulate ciliate disk ; filaments fmally exserted ; 

 anthers oblong introrse versatile, 2-rimose. Gormen inserted at summit 

 of thick cylindrical or subclavate erect podogyuium, 3-lobed ; cells 

 1-ovulate ; style short, afterwards 3-fid ; branches linear revolute, 

 inwardly stigmatiferous to aj)ex. Fruit 3-coccous, placed at 

 summit of podogynium ; sterile cocci usually 2 ; fertile 1 (or more 

 rarely 2, 3) subglobose, depressed at apex, longitudinally obtusely 

 sulcate drupaceous ; flesh scanty subcoriaceous ; putamcn thin ; testa 

 of ascendent subglobose seed, clothed with fleshy (arilloid) indumen- 

 tum adhering at nearly every part except at 3-angular spathe round 

 chalaza ; cotyledons of thick exalbuminous embryo plano-convex 

 fleshy superposed ; radicle short arched conoid incumbent descendent. 

 — A small tree ; leaves alternate abruptly pinnate ; folioles alternate 

 from base very unequally falciform penniveincd reticulate small 

 veined ; flowers in racemose composite cymiferous clusters axillary 

 to upper leaves ; pedicels articulate.'' [Neiv Caledonia, Lifu.^) 



9. Xerospermum Bl.' — Flowers polygamous-diœcious regular, 

 4-merous ; sepals decussately imbricated ; exterior smaller. Petals 4, 

 alternate, short or very shortly subspathulate, rather villose at margin, 

 esquamate. Stamens 8, short, interior to annular disk ; filaments 



' EOKL. et Zeyh. Emm. 53.— Endl. Oeii. n. 241 {SapiHdm).—'Vn^. Eiiiim. PL Zcyl. 57,408 



6635.— HooK.7co«.t.352.— B.H.Gi;(.407,n.51. (PoHWiia).- Mm. Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. ii. 653, 



• 2 FoRST. Prodr. v. 74 (part.) ; Char. Gen. 668 (Pometia), 569 {Spamghea) ; Suppl. i. 608. 



109, t. 55.— B. H. Qen. 407, n. 52.— Irina Bu — Benth. Fl. Austral, i. 464.— W alp. Hep. i- 



Bijdr. 230.— Cambess. Mém. Mm. xviii. 24.— 420 ; t. 364 ; Aim. ii. 220 ; vii. 630, 631 



Endl. Oen. n. 5607. — EccrcmantlmsTinf.Sook. {Spanoghea, Pappœa). 



Kew Jimrti. vii. 272, t. 9. 'A genus allied to Sapindiis, and hence to 



2 A genus allied to Euphoria by seed and Nephelium, principally distinct by cocci of fruit 



fruit, differing principally in nature of calyx. being stipate with elongated podogynium. 



■" Spec, ad 20. DC. Prodr. i. 611 {Euphoria). ^ Spec. 1. P.stipitatiim H. Bn, in Jdansonta, 



— Wight, Icon. t. 43. — Blanco, Fl. de Filip. xi. 246. — Cupania stipitata Panch. herb. ! 



287 {Euphofia).—HA^\. et Sond. Fl. Cap. i. ' Rumphia, iii. 99.— B. H. Qen. 405, n. 46. 



