■17H NATURAL IIlsTOUy OF PLANTS. 



or globular sack, supporting six to ten sessile and enclosed anthers. 

 The ovary, destitute of disk, has 3-5 uui-or bi-ovulate cells, and the 

 loculicidal, capsular fruit contains seeds surrounded by a tleshy aril. 

 In another sub-series whose principal genus is Epicharis^ the sessile 

 anthers are also enclosed in a long tube near the summit of which 

 they are inserted ; moreover, the disk, taking a large development, 

 forms round the ovary a thick tube not adhering to it. In the species 

 of Epicharis, all natives of tropical Asia and Oceania, the flowers 

 have a cupuliform calyx, valvate or more or less imbricate, four to 

 seven valvate petals, rarely imbricate, and a diplostemonous andro- 

 ceum, whose tube is free or, more rarely, adherent below to the 

 corolla. The biovulate cells are two to five in number, and the fruit 

 is a loculicidal capsule. Cahralca represents in South America the 

 same floral type, with a pentamerous and imbricate calyx and corolla. 

 The fruit is not known ; the inflorescence occupies the axil of the 

 imparipiunate leaves. Sandoricuin, closely allied to the preceding 

 genera by the imbricate perianth, androceum and disk, is distin- 

 guished by the slight concavity of the receptacle, rendering 

 inferior the base of the ovary and slightly perigynous corolla, as 

 well as by the Ave deep, erect, and contiguous divisions of the stig- 

 matiferous apex of the style and the fleshy indéhiscent fruit. It 

 consists of trees from the Moluccas with trifoliolate leaves. Chisocheton 

 has almost the flower of Epicharis with the tubular and narrow bud 

 of Dasijcolcimi. The polygame- dioecious flowers are tctramcrous, 

 with .5-8 stamens, and the disk is free, tubular. It consists of trees 

 from tropical Asia and Oceania, whose fruit is capsular, and the 

 leaves compound-pinnate. 



III. SWIETENIA SEEIES. 



The small flowers of Sivietenia'^ (flg. 471-47G) arc hermaphrodite 

 and regular. The convex receptacle bears a short patulous calyx, 



1 L. Oe». n. 575.— J. Gen. 266.— Gjehtn. Fain. Nat. idd—Mahagoni Casteb. ILH. 2 



Fruct. ii. 89, t. 9C.— Deskouss. Diet. iii. 678 t. 8, (e,x Adans. Fain des I'l. ii. 343). 



(part.). — DC. Prodi: i. 625. — Turp. Bid. Sc. —Guidoiiia Adans. loc. cit. (not Plum. Gen. t. 



Nat. Atl. t. 170.— A. Ji'ss. Mcliac. 96, t. 11.— 2i).—Cidrtis Mill. Diet. 2 (not Endl. loc. cit.) 



Spach, Suit, à Buffon, iii. 163. — Endl. Gen. n. — Roia Scur. Iiitrod. n. lOH. 

 5549.— B.' H. Gen. 338, n. 30.— H. B.\. Payer 



