404 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



Stamens 8, interior to annular disk ; filaments in male flower elon- 

 gated ; anthers extrorse, 2-rimose. , Gynœcenm of Schleichcra 2-3- 

 mcrous. Drui:)e subfleshy or dry ; putamen crustaceous ; cells 1, 2, 

 1-spermous. Seed suberect, outwardly pulpy ; cotyledons of 

 straight embryo thick. — Trees ; leaves alternate paripinnate ; folioles 

 opposite sessile, 2-3-jugate ; flowers in slender elongated simple or 

 ramified clusters.^ ( Central America.'') 



'lb. Huertea E. and Pav.^ — Flowers polygamous (nearly of 

 Melicocca or Schleichcra) ; receptacle rather concave. Sepals 5, 6, 

 and petals same in number alternate, imbricate. Stamens equal 

 in number to alternate petals, slightly perigynous with perianth ; 

 filaments free alternating with as many small glands of disk ; 

 anthers introrse, 2-rimose. Germen free except at base ; cells 2, incom- 

 plete from vanishing septum ; ovule in each ascendent from inner 

 angle; micropyle extrorsely inferior ; style erect, acutely 2 -fid stig- 

 matiferous at apex. Fruit subdrupaceous, 1-spermous ; seed. . .? — A 

 tree ; wood fulvescent ; leaves alternate imparipinnate ; folioles 

 ublong-acute serrulate, at base sometimes unequally 2-glandular ; 

 flowers in axillary and terminal much compound ramified racemes.* 

 {Peru and Cuha?) 



26. Aleetryon G.iîrtn.'' — Flowers polygamo-diœcious apeta- 

 lous ; calyx lobes 4, 5, villous within, imbricated. Stamens 5-8 (in 

 female flower effete or 0) ; filaments inserted between lobes of thick 

 disk ench-cling them at base ; anthers introrse, 2-riniose. Gormen 

 (rudimentary or in male flower) 1-locular, unequally-obcordate, 

 produced above sometimes to dorsal wing, sometimes to a small stj^le, 

 stigmatiferous at simple or shortly 2-3-lobed apex ; ovule in cell 1, 

 subbasilar ascendent ; micropyle extrorsely inferior. Fruit turgid, 

 woody or crustaceous, indéhiscent or subtransversely unequally- 

 broken ; testa of ascendent subglobose seed crustaceous nitid, sur- 



' A genus very nearly allied to Schkichera. alied to the preceding, differing in the septum 



- Spec, about 2. jAca. Amer. t. 72 {Meli- of the germen being incomplete. 



cocctis). — H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Spec. v. 150. — * Spec. 1. H. glanthdosa R. et Pay. loc. cit. — 



Tr. et Pl. Ann. Sc. Nat. eér. 4, xvHi. 377. — S. Citbciisis Griseb. Cat. PI. Cub. 66. 



GuiSEB. Fi. Brit. W.-Ind. 127. " Fruct. i. 216, t. 46.— PoiR. Diet. Suppl. i. 



' Prodr. 34, t. 6 ; Fl. Per. iii. 5, t. 227, fig. a. 288.— DC. Prodr. i. 617.— Cambebs. Mem. Mus. 



—DC. Protlr. ii. 90.— Endl. Gen. n. 1134. — xviii. 37.— Endl. Gen. n. Ô627.— B. H. Gen. 



a. 11. Gen. 428, n. 44.— March. Auaeard. 196. 410, n. 66.— H. Bn. Payer. Fam. Nat. 319.— 



■■ A genus hitherto doubtfully reckoned Aleetryon A. Ounn. Ann. Nat. Mist. iii. 318. 

 among the Terehinthacece (trib. Spondias) nearly 



