BIXACEÆ. 313 
wide depressed. Sepals 3-6, unequal tomentose, imbricated, deci- 
duous. Stamens ©, free, o-seriate subperigynous ; receptacle be- 
tween base of filaments more or less glandular; anthers subovate, 
introrse (?), longitudinally rimose. Germen (in male flower rudi- 
mentary) ; style small, 3—5-fid; in female flower globose, 1-locular, 
surrounded by » short staminodes ; styles 3-6, patent, apex stigma- 
tiferous thickened. Berry globose ;' seeds œ, nidulant in pulp, 
exterior pulpy ; testa crustaceous ; albumen fleshy ; embryo axile, 
straight ; radicle cylindrical ; cotyledons foliaceous, suborbicular.—A. 
large tree ; leaves alternate cordate serrate, 5-nerved at base; petiole 
rather long, hence glanduliferous; stipules 2, small, caducous ; 
flowers’ in axillary and terminal racemes on long subcernuous 
branches ; male pedicel slender, elongated (Japan’). 
III. SAMYDEA,. 
10. Samyda L.—Flowers regular hermaphrodite apetalous ; re- 
ceptacle concave, more or less cupulate or campanulate. Sepals 4-6, 
connate to greater or less height, equal or unequal (coloured) ; præ- 
floration much imbricated. Stamens 8—, inserted in the throat ; 
filaments more or less high in tube of perianth, more or less long 
adnate connate ; anthers 2-locular, introrse 2-rimose. Germen free, 
inserted at bottom of receptacle, 1-locular ; style at apex capitate 
stigmatiferous ; placentas 3-8, parietal, &-ovulate. Fruit coriaceous- 
fleshy, subglobose or ovoid, finally 3-5-valved at apex. Seeds w, 
angular; aril fleshy; hilum ventral; testa crustaceous; embryo 
axile, small; cotyledons foliaceous.—Shrubs; leaves alternate, 2- 
tichous, pellucid-punctuate, base articulate and furnished with small 
stipules; flowers (large), axillary, solitary or sometimes cymose 
(Western India). See p. 278. 
11. Guidonia PLum‘—Flowers nearly of Samyda, smaller ; tube 
of perianth longer or shorter ; lobes 4-6, sometimes petaloid, imbri- 

1 Cherry of small size, glabrous, golden, eat- + Prum., Gen., t. 24 (1703).—L., Gen., ed. 2 
able. (1742), 520.—H. BN., in Adansonia, x. 251.— 
* Pale yellow, and female smaller than male. Casearia JACQ., Stirp. Amer, (1763), 132, t. 85. 
$ Spec. 1. I. polycarpa Maxtm., loc. cit. —DC., Prodr., ii.48.—Enp1., Gen., n. 5060.— 
partly translated and reedit. in Ann. Sc, Nat, PAYER, Fam. Nat., 94,—B. H., Gen., 796, 
sér. 5, vil. 378, eps 
