M ELI ACE JE. 4!)U 



5, siibobovatc, imbricate. Stamens 5 ; tube short cupular disciform 

 entire ; anthers sessile exsertcd deltoidly ovate ; connective ovate 

 surmounting the marginal (disjoined) cells. Germen short, 1-locular ; 

 placentse 2, scarcely reaching the middle of the cell; ovules on 

 each placenta 2, collateral ; stigma sessile subglobose, entire or 

 obscurely 2-lobed. Fruit globular indéhiscent, 1-locular ; seeds 

 1, 2, enclosed in a thin aril (?) ovoid ; cotyledons of exalbuminous 

 embryo thick superposed ; radicle minute. — A moderate sized tree ; 

 the younger parts slightly tomentose ; loaves impari- or subpari-pin- 

 nate ; leaflets opposite entire ; flowers ^ in axillary and terminal 

 panicles." " [Eastern subtropical Australia.^) 



13. Guarea L.* — Calyx 3-G-dentate or partite or fid, valvate or 

 imbricate. Petals 3-6, exserted, erect, valvate or more rarely 

 imbricate. [Kuagcu.^) Stamens twice as many as the petals ; 

 filaments connate in entii'e or crenate tube, externally free from 

 corolla or very rarely connate with it ; anthers enclosed introrse. 

 Germen nude at base or glandulose-stipitate, sometimes swelling 

 more or less into continuous or distinct glandules ; cells 2-5 ; style 

 erect shoj-t, apex stigmatose disciform. Ovules in cells 1, 2, 

 descendent ; or one more or less obliquely ascendent. Capsule 

 lignose or coriaceous, smooth, costate or tuberculate, loculicidally 

 2-5- or oftener 4-valvate ; seeds quite covered by aril ; cotyledons 

 of exalbuminous embryo superposed fleshy ; radicle short dorsal. — 

 Trees or shrubs ; " leaves pinnate, opposite or alternate ; flowers ^ in 

 axillary subsimple, racemose or compound cymiferous racemes. 

 ( Trop ical Am erica. ^) 



14. Dasycoleum Turcz.'* — Flowers nearly of Guarea^ narrower ; 

 calyx cupular short subcntire or obtusely dentate. Petals 5, 

 coriaceous, subvalvate, finally recurved. Stamaus 5 ; ^'^ anthers 



' Small. ' Small or rather large, white. 



' A genus in most points very near BfAtowifS, '. Spec, about 30. Vent. Ch. de PI. t. 41. ■ 



differing in the form of its anthers, and most H. B. K. Nov. Oen. et Spic. v. 217. — A. S. 



distinct in the nature of its ovary. H. PI. Us. Bras. t. 71; Fl. Bras. 3£ei: ii. 



' Spec. 1. 1£. sapiadiiiaF.Uv ELL. t. 100. — Griseb. M. Si it. TV.-Ind. 130. 



* Maniiss. 1305.— J. Gen. 26-5, 431.— Lamk. Turcz. BtiU. Muse. (1863), i. 589.— H. B.v. 

 Diet. ii. 5; Suppl. ii. 820; Ill.t. 301. — UC. Ai1aiisonia.x.lV>. — Is.. Ann. Se. Nat. sér. &,-il\. 

 Prodi: i. 623.— Spach, Suit, à Biiffon, iii. 199.— 367 {Ruar/en), 368.— W ALP. Reii. i. 434 ; ii. 817 ; 



A. Juss. Meliac. 87, t. 8. — ExDL. n. 5543.— -4nH. vii. 556. 



B. H. Ge». 33.5, 994, n. 19.—? Ziirlva Tex. in ' «k«. Mjsc. (1858), i. 414.— B. H. Gfii. 33.5, 

 Duch. llev. Bot. ii. 127 (ox B. H.). n. 20. 



^ Karst. Fl. Cotuinli. ii. 51, t. 120. '° Flowers according to B. II. 10 androus. 



• Sometimes odorous. 



