402 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



entire, indéhiscent drupaceous or coriaceous ; cells 2, 3 ; seeds out- 

 wardly more or less pulpy ; cotyledons of exalbuminous embryo 

 thick more or less unequal and curved. — Trees or shrubs ; leaves 

 alternate pari- or imparipiunate ; folioles opposite or subopposite 

 entire ; flowers ^ in axillary and terminal subsiraple or ramified cymi- 

 ferous racemes. (Ind. Arch.-) 



20 ? Anomosanthes Bl.^ Flowers polygamo-diœcious regidar 

 (nearly of Sapindus or Cupania) ; sepals 5, imbricated. Petals 5, 

 imbricated, furnished within with small scales. Stamens 8, rather 

 short interior to thick annular glabrous disk, at first thinner or 

 emarginate, thence thicker. Germen 3-locular ; style short, stigmati- 

 ferous entire or 3-lobed at apex. Fruit 3 -agonal, sub-entire or sub- 

 3-lobed ; seeds exarillate ascendent ; cotyledons of thick exalbuminous 

 embryo superposed unequal. — Glabrous or tomentose trees ; leaves 

 alternate imparipiunate ; inflorescence of Jagera or Lepisanthis* (East. 

 Conf. India., Ltd. Arch.'') 



21. Macphersonia Bl." — Flowers polygamous regular ; sepals 5 

 (coloured), much imbricated. Petals 5, alternate, small, very small 

 (or 0) wide obovate-subspathulate uuequally-lacerate imguiculate 

 esquamate. Stamens 8, interior to crenate cuj)ular disk ; filaments 

 in male flower inserted below rudiment of gynœceum, 2-plicate, in 

 geniculate bud, finally subulate exserted ; anthers introrse, 2-rimose, 

 Germen (rudimentary in male flower) central substipitate, 3-locular ; 

 style short stigmatiferous 3-lobed at apex ; ovule in cells solitary as- 

 cendent ; micropyle extrorsely inferior. Fruit stipitate obliquely 

 globular apiculate smooth, 1 -3-locular ; 2 cells effete. Seed ascendent ; 

 hihim wide scantily arillate ; testa thick ; embryo fleshy. — Very 

 ramifled small trees ; leaves alternate crowded, 2-pinnate ; raches and 

 petioles sometimes subalate ; leaflets crowded opposite or alternate, 

 entire or crenulate, oblique at base ; flowers ''' in axillary more or 

 less ramified compound-cymiferous racemes, articulate bracteolate. 

 {Malacca.^) 



' Usually whitish. to be preserved) allied to preceding by regular 



- Spec, about 4. DC. Frodr. i. 608, n. 18 (Sap- perianth, by unequal disk tending to Pancorin. 

 ■i»rf((s).— Mm. Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. ii, 502. Gen. ^ Spec. 2, 3. Wight et Ami. Fnxh.i. 111.— 



vix servandum. Wight, /W. 141. 



3 Rmnphia, iii. 151.— B. H. Gen. 402, n. « Rtimphia, iii. 156.— B. H. Gen. 402, n. 34. 



36. ^ Small, white. 



■* A genua (probably when better known not ' Spec. 2. H. Bn. Adansonia, xi. 240. 



