408 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



or contorted, obtuse or scarcely dilated stigma tifcrous at apex ; 

 ovules in cell 2, oblique, inserted at middle of internal angle. 

 Capsule 1 coriaceous inflated submembraneous or sometimes ligneous 

 [Harpullinstrum), 2-3-locular, loculicidal; seeds in cells 1, 2, arillate 

 at base or to middle ; aril adherent to testa (otherwise glabrous) ; 

 cotyledons of thick exalbumiuous embryo hemispherical or obliquely 

 superposed fleshy ; radicle short incumbent. — Trees ; leaves alternate 

 imparipinnate ; folioles alternate glabrous ; flowers - in more or less 

 ramified compound-cymiferous racemes ; pedicels often long, brac- 

 teolate at base. {Trop. Asia and Oceania.^) 



33 ? Hypelate P. Br."* — Flowers polygamo-diœcious regular 

 (nearly of Thoidnea and Pkeroxijloii), 4-5-merous; petals esquamate 

 imbricated or contorted. Stamens 8-iO, interior to disk ; anthers 

 introrse cordate-ovate or subsagittate. Germen and 2 ovules (of 

 IIlp2)ohromus). Fruit globose, dry, coriaceous or fleshy,^ indéhiscent ; 

 cells 1-3, 1-spermous. Testa of descendent seed coriaceous or crus- 

 taceous ; radicle of exalbuminous embryo superior uncinate ; cotyle- 

 dons thick plano-convex. — Trees or shrubs ; leaves alternate, pinnate 

 or 3-foliolatc, more rarely 1 -foliolate ; flowers in short compound-rami- 

 fied sometimes corymbiform cymiferous racemes. {Antilles, Florida.^) 



34. Hippobromus Eckl. and Zeyh.''' — Flowers polygamo- 

 diœcious regular (nearly of Hypelate), 5-merous; sepals unequal, 

 imbricated, persistent. Petals 5, small esquamate thick or 

 ( Doratoxjjlon *). Stamens 5-8, interior to complete annular disk 

 hypogynous; anthers introrse oblong, 2-rimose. Germen (in male 

 flower rudimentary or 0) 2-3-locular ; style short, 2, 3-lobed stigma- 

 tiferous at apex ; ovules in each cell 2, subcollaterally descendent ; 

 micropyle extrorsely superior. Fruit subglobose or ellipsoid coriaceous, 



' Large, red or golden in Blaiicon '• sur- order on account of the situation of the micro- 

 rounded by a membranous wing." pyle and only doubtfully placed here. 



- Greenish, rather large. * Sometimes rather bluish. 



:< Spec 6, 7. Bl. Rumiihia, iii. 174.— Mia. « Spec. 2. Sw. Fl. Jnd. Occ. ii. 6.53, t. 14.— 



Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. ii. 570 ; Suppl. i. 199.— Deless. Ic. Sel. iii. 23, t. 39.— DC. Prodr. . 



Benth. Fl. Austral, i. 470.— Thw. Eimm. PI. 615 {Melicoccœ sect. Sphœrococca) .—3 . Méni. 



Zfi/l. ô6. — Wai,t. Ami. vii. GSl. Mus. iii. t. 5-7 {Melicocca). — Hook. Loud. 



■• Hist. Jam. 280.— PoiR. Diet. Suppl. iii. 83. Jotmi. iii. 226, t. 7.— Griseb. Fl. Brit. W.-Iiid. 



— Cambess. in Mém. Mus. xviii. 31.— Spach. i. 127; Cat. PL Cub. 46. 



.S'«i7. à iiwjft", iii. 64.— Endl. «?CT. n. 5619.— TErmm. 151 (1834-37). — Endl. Gen. n. 



B. H. Oen. 408, n. 55.- H. Bn. Pai/er Fam. 6637.— B. H. Gw. 402, n. 35. 



Nat. 316.— Erotheii Macf. Fl. Jam. i. 232. A •* Dup.-Th. MSS. {ex Bo.t. in Herk Hook, et 



genus with the following anomalous in the B. H. ffcH. 408, n. 66). — Bakeu, Fl. Manrit. 60, 



