112 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



tudinally rimose; connective dorsal thick shortly subconical suh- 

 basifixed. Sepals of female flowers 4, 5, free or subfree. Disk 

 small 3-4-lobed. Germen elongate 2-3-locular ; empty cells 1-2 ; the 

 other 2-ovulate ; ovules 2, inserted at base of septa (sometimes incom- 

 plete) ascendent ; micropyle extrorsely inferior ; styles 2,3, unequal 

 subulate recm-ved everywhere stigmatiferous. Fruit capsular much 

 compressed subsamaroid elongated-2-3-winged, oblong elliptical or 

 lanceolate ; seeds compressed ; cotyledons of exalbuminous embryo 

 oblong rather flat ; radicle short inferior. — Glabrous or incano- 

 pubescent (bitter) shrubs ; leaves alternate imparipinnate ; leaflets oo, 

 alternate entire, articulate, deciduous ; flowers dense in axillary and 

 terminal elongated racemes.^ {Mexico^ Antilles.^) 



42 ? Akania Hook f.^ — " Flowers regular hermaphrodite; tube* 

 of calyx hemispherical, lined within with disk ; lobes 5, short, 

 imbricate. Petals 5, inserted in faux, very shortly unguiculate 

 rotundate, imbricate. Stamens 5-9, hypogynous ; filaments short ; 

 anthers linear-elongate. Germen free pubescent narrow-ovoid 

 indistinctly 3-gonal, 3-locular; style short, stigmatose at apex 

 capitellate ; ovules in cells 2, superposed, descendent. Fruit...? — 

 A very glabrous tree " ; leaves alternate imparipinnate ; leaflets 

 alternate petiolulate elongate-lanceolate acuminate spinoso-dentate 

 coriaceous clear reticulate ; " flowers ® in axillary and externally- 

 winged'^ freely branched pubescent panicles."''' [Eastern Australia.^) 



43 ? Llagunoa E. and Pav.^ — Flowers monœcious or polygamous 

 apetalous subirregular ; receptacle widely cupuliform unequal, lined 

 within with a glaudulous submembranous and irregular suboblique 

 and crenate disk. Sepals 5, subequally 3-angular foliaceous, valvate 

 or slightly imbricate. Stamens 8, interior to disk and inserted under 



' A genus abnonual in the order, in some • " Pédales et ultra." 



respects on account of its bitterness approach- ' Belonging to this genus perhaps is (from 



ing theQuassiani?«/r7C(œ,inother87'errfi«<Affre(S B. H. Gen. 1000) Apiocarpos Montrouz, Mém. 



with the habit and leaves of the Ltyuminosœ. Acad. Lyon., x. 190. 



2 Spec. 2, 3. Benth. PI. Eartweg. n. 67 ' Spec. 1. A. Billii Hook, f.— Benth. Fl. 

 {Mimos. Gen. Nov. P). — Griseb. Fl. Brit. W.- Austral, i. 471. — Cupania lucens F. Muell. 

 Ind. 141 ; Cat. PL Cub. 60. — Walp. Ann. iv. Fragm. Hi. 44. 



382 ; vii. 638. a Prodr. 126, t. 28.— Cambebs. Mém. Mus. 



3 Qcn. 409, n. 59. xviii. 34.— Endl. -Gai. n. 5G24.— B. H. Gen. 

 ■< Receptacle concave ? 409, n. 58. — Amirola Pers. Syn. ii. 565.— DC. 

 • " Mediocribus, longe pedicellatis, ebrao- Pndr. i. 616. — Orbignya Berter. Merc. Chil. 



teatis." 737, ex C. Gay (not Mart.). 



