410 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



bricated or subvalvato. Petals 5, alternate, osquamate, imbricate. Disk 

 orbicular- cupular, interior to perianth, radiately-fi-sulcate within. 

 Stamens -5, altcrnipotalons, interior to disk ; filaments inserted 

 below gynteceum, lodged at base in grooves of disk ; anthers introrse, 

 2-rimose. Germcn (rudimentary in male flower) 2-locular ; style 

 short curved ; apex laterally stigmatiferons, subentrre or sub-2- 

 lobed ; ovule in cell 1, descendent or transverse, sometimes sub- 

 ascendent. Drupe ; putamen thin, 1-2-spermous ; testa of oblong- 

 seed, membranous ; cotyledons of exalbuminous curved embryo 

 plicate-foliaceous ; radicle ascendent. — A free ; twigs angular ; 

 leaves ^ alternate imparipinnate ; rachis winged ; folioles suboppositc 

 (5-8-jugate), articulate at base, crenate ; flowers" in large ramified 

 cymiferous racemes. {East Ind?) 



38. Ganophyllum Bl.* — Flowers polygamo-diœcious apetalous 

 (nearly oï Filicium) ; male calyx small cujnilar, G-fîd, valvate. Stamens 

 5-7, inserted between puberulose lobes of hypogynous disk ; fila- 

 ments free exserted ; anthers oblong introrse. Germen rudimentary 

 central. Female flower...? — A tree;' twigs angular and leaves 

 alternate imparipinnate, lepidote with waxlike scales ; folioles 8-jugate 

 falcate entire coriaceous ; flowers ^ in compound-ramified axillary 

 racemes. [Philippine Is. N.-G-uinea^ Australia [?].') 



39. Dodonsea L.^ — Flowers diœcious or j^olygamous apetalous ; 

 sepals 2-0, sometimes minute, imbricated or valvate. Stamens 4-8 

 (or more rarely 9-12), central (rudimentary or infernale flower), in- 

 serted in non- or slightly-glandular receptacle ; filaments free usually 

 short ; anthers introrse oblong, sub-4-agonal, 2-rimose. Germen (in 

 male flower rudimentary or 0) surrounded at base by small disk 

 enclosing the stamens when present outside or between the lobes, 



' The younger onea with twigs iuid peduncle known to us, F. Muell. (Fragni. vii. 24) is 



often covered with waxlike scales. Biirseracea, partly the same, as regards the fruit, 



■ Small, white. as Euroschiims fulcattis Benth. Fl. Austral. 



' Spec. 1. F. dccipiens Tuw. luc. cit. — Plerido- i. 490. The genus remains very doubtful. 



phylliim itecipieiis ÏHW. — Sims decipieiis Wioht ' Geii. n. 85.5 (not Plum.). — Adans. Fam. des 



& Akn. Frudr. i. 172.— Wight, III. t. 75. P/. ii. 342.— J. Gin. 375.— Lamk. Diet. ii. 292 ; 



* Mus. Lngd.-Bat. i. 320.— B. H. Gen. 326, Suppl. ii. 494; HI. t. 304.— DC. Prodi: i. 616. 



n. 12. — March. Adansonia, viii. 37, 68 [Burse- — Cambess. in Mem. Mus. xviii. 35. — Spach, 



raci-te.) ■ Suit, à Biiffon, iii. 68.— Endl. Gen. n. 5626.— 



5 " Balsamifera." A. Gi!ay, Gen. 111. t. 182.— B. H. Oen. 410, n. 



" Small, greeuish, ebracteate. 63. — H. Bn. Payer. Fam. Nat. 319. — Baker, 



7 Spec. 1, 2. MiQ. Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. ii. 655. Fl.Mnurit. 60. — FrnjileurosmaBAUTh. PI. Prei-s. 



G. falcatum, from the description most recently ii. 228. 



