M E LI A CE, E. 503 



wood of stem, bracteate or ebractoato, articulate. (Tropical and 

 te7nj7crate Asia and Oceania}) 



21 ? Cabralea A. Juss.'' — Flowers nearly of ^^/e/^ar/s, 5-inerous; 

 calyx short and petals obtuse much longer very imbricate. Stamens 

 10; anthers enclosed at top of tube 10-crenate at mouth, alternating 

 with teeth of tube. Germen surrounded by wide tubular disk and 

 shorter than it ; cells 4, 5, 2-ovulate ; style slender erect, apex 

 stigraatose discoid. Fruit . . . ? — Trees or shrubs oftener tomentose ; 

 leaves alternate imparipinnate ; leaflets opposite, unequal at base ; 

 axillary ramose inflorescence of Guarca? {Brazil, Caraccas.*) 



22. Sandoricum Cav.^ — Flowers nearly of Epicharis, 5-raerous ; 

 calyx cupular dentate, adnate at base to bottom of germen,^ valvate 

 or imbricate. Petals 5, connivent in tube, imbricate. Stamens 1 ; 

 anthers enclosed in 1 -dentate tube. Disk tubular, dentate at apex, 

 sheathing the germen and base of style. Germen not free at base ; 

 cells 5, 2-ovulate ; style erect, thickened to a ring below the apex 

 and above deeply fissured into 5 laciniaj stigmatose erect thick, and 

 finally reciu-ved at apex. Fruit baccate globidar above, indéhiscent,^ 

 cells 3-5, 1-spermous ; septa finally vanishing; seeds enclosed in 

 aril externally pulpy ; testa spongy ; cotyledons of exalbuminous 

 embryo plano-convex amygdaline lateral. — Glabrous or partly 

 tomentose trees ; loaves alternate, 3-foliolate ; leaflets ample nervoso ; 

 flowers '^ in axillary ramose-cymiferous racemes, bracteate. {Northern 

 tropical Oceania!'^) 



' Spec, about 40. Rumph. Serb. Amlioiii. ii. known (perhaps not to be preserved?), its fruit 



8l,t.20{Allinria).—Fousi. Prodi: (1786), 33, being unknown, it differs only in the nature of 



n. 189 [Trichilia). — Labill, Sert. Caled. t. 64 its disk. 



(Triel,ilia).~A. KiOH. Voy. Astral. Bot. t. 11 " Walp. iJf^). i. 431 ; v. 374. 



\Hartighsen).—KooYi. Icon. t. 616, 617 {Har- « Diss. vii. 359, t. 202, 203.— Lamk. Vict. iii. 



tighsea).—'i,liQ..Fl.Jiid-Bat.\.v.\\.ôZ6[D!/sox!/- 69; ///. t. 350.-DC. I'ridr. i. 621.— Spach, 



htm), 538 {Rortighsm), 539 {Didiimocheton), 540 Suit, à Biiffon, iii. 189.— A. Juss. MiVwc. 80, t. 



{Gmioc/ietou) ; Suppl. i. 196.— ? Thw. Simm. 5 — Endl. Gen. n. 5537.— B. H. Geii. 332, n. 13. 



PI. Zeijl. 60 (Di/soxi/loii). — Tuiicz. Bull. Mosc. ^ That is from the receptacle being slightly 



(1858), i. 412 {Hartighsea). — Hook. f. J^/. iV.- concave, with corolla slightly perigynous ; 



Zel. i. 39 ; Man. N.-Zeal. Fl. 40 [Dgsorijlum). — whence germen inferior at base. 



Benth. Fl. Austral, i. 380 [Di/soxylon). — H. Bn. ' Large apple-like, acid. 



Adansonin, xi. 257.— Wali". iJc;3. i. 129; Ann. " Yellow, small or rather large. 



iv. 387 {Dgsnxi/loa); vii. 554 (DgsoxgUn), 555. ' Spec, about 5, of which one is widely cul- 



- Ml line. 77, t. 5. — EsDL. Gen. n. 5534. — B. H. tivatod within the tropics. Koxn. PI. Coromand. 



Gin. 333. n. 12. t- 261 ; Fl. Ind. ii. 292.— Mia. Fl. Ind.Sat. i. 



^ From the species of which presenting imbri- p. ii. 540 ; Suppl. i. 196. — H. Bn. Adansonia, xi. 



cate petals [Biiagia) a genus hitherto little 264.— W alp. Rep. i. 431 ; iv. 387. 



