508 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



nipetalous longer ; anthers subcordate upiculate introrse, 2-rimose, 

 versatile. Germen immersed at base of disk, depressed ovoid, 3-locu- 

 lar ; style short, apex stigmatose obsciirely 3-lobed ; ovules in cells 

 to 8, in 2 series. Capsule ovoid-oblong coriaceous, loculicidal; valves 

 3, septiferous in middle ; columella 0. Seeds imbricate, and inserted 

 at margins of septa, unequally alate ; hilum lateral ; cotyledons of 

 exalbuminous embryo plano-convex ; radicle short. — A tall tree ; 

 wood hard yellow ; leaves abruptly pinnate ; leaflets obtuse entire ; 

 flowers^ in terminal and axillary compound ramose cymiferous racemes. 

 {East India.^) 



32. riindersia R. Br.^ — Flowers hermaphi-odite ; sepals 5, short, 

 imbricate, sometimes connate at base. Petals 5, longer, imbricate, 

 finally patulous. Stamens 10, exterior to cupular or shortly tubular 

 rather thick subentire or crenate disk, 2-seriate ; oppositipetalous 

 shorter, often anantherous or ; filaments fi'ee, incurved at apex ; 

 anthers short suborbiculate or subcordate, introrse, 2-rimose. Germen 

 immersed at bottom of disk free ; cells 5, oppositipetalous, more or 

 less prominent at back, and sometimes glandulose at apex ; style in- 

 serted in depressed summit of germen, apex stigmatose capitate- 

 5-lobed ; ovules in cells 4-go , 2-seriate in internal angle. Capsule 

 oblong woody, verrucose or echinate at back, septicidal ô-valv'ate; 

 valves free from septiferous and finally 5 -partible columella. Seeds 

 ascendent compressed on both sides in septa, above or on both sides 

 produced to imbricate wing ; hilum lateral at base ; cotyledons of 

 transverse exalbuminous embryo thick foliaceous ; radicle short. — 

 Trees or shrubs ; leaves opposite or alternate, imparipinnate or 1-3- 

 foliolate ; rachis alate {Stniclcckia) ;* leaflets entire, punctate below; 

 flowers crowded in terminal or axillary very ramose compound cymi- 

 ferous racemes, articulate.^ {Tropical and subtropical OceaniaS') 



• Small, white. Gen. n. 6555. 



■^ Spec. 1. C. Swietmia DC. loc. cit.— Wioht ■« Strzeleckija F. Muell. Hook. Keu- Joimi. ix. 



and Am. Prodi: i. 123.— Wight, III. t. 56 bh.— 308. 



Walp. Reii. i. 436.— ft,irf,nirt Chloroxylou Eoxb. ' Small, white. 



Fl. Coromand. 46, t. 64.— W. Sjiec. ii. 557.— Pom. « RuMru. Herb. Amboin. iii. 201, t. 129 [Arbor 



Diet. Suppl. iii. 575, n. 4. rnduliferaj.—'hlia. Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. ii. 547.— 



^ Flind. Toy. ii. 59, t. 1.— DC. Prodr. i. 625. — F. Muell. Fragm. i. 65; iii. 25; Jonm. 



—A. Juss. Mcliac. 101.— Spach, Suit, à Bnffon, riiarm-. Soc. Vict, ii, 44.— Benth. Fl. Austral, i. 



iii. 172.— Endl. (?<». n. 5554.— B. H. «». 340, 3S8.— Panch. et Séb. Bois N. Caléd. 228.— 



n. 37.— H. Bk. Faycr Fmn. Niif. i07 .—Oxlei/a Walp. liep. i. 436 ; Ann. vii. 661. 

 A. CUNN. Hook. Bot. Mise, i, 246, t. 54.— Endl. 



