438 ; NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
stemonous. Ovary plurilocular, surrounded by a thick pulviniform 
disk. Ovules solitary, descending, with exterior and inferior micro- 
pyle. Style single. Fruit drupaceous, with bony stone, mono- 
spermous. Seed exalbuminous; embryo fleshy —Thorny shrubs of 
the Old World, with 2-foliolate leaves; insipid, not punctuate.— 
(1 genus.) 
IX. Quasstraz.'— Flowers hermaphrodite or declinous, regular, 
isostemonous or diplostemonous. Stamens often furnished with a 
scale within the base of their filament. Gyneceum inserted imme- 
diately above the androceum, or separated from it by a receptacular 
internode more or less elongated. Carpels oppositipetalous, equal in 
number or inferior to that of the petals, free (Zyuassie), or united 
(Picramnice) in the ovary, united, or more rarely free, in the styles. 
Ovules generally solitary, and descending, with exterior and superior 
micropyle (more rarely 2-«). Fruits dry, rarely dehiscent or sama- 
roid, generally fleshy. Albumen fleshy, or nil—Woody plants, 
mostly natives of warm countries, with simple or compound ex- 
stipulate leaves, and of which all parts, usually provided with glan- 
dular punctures, are generally intensely bitter.—(27 genera.) 
X. Cnroreæ.—Klowers hermaphrodite, 3—4-merous, isostemo- 
nous. Ovary with 3, 4 cells, often divided into secondary uniovulate 
cells. Ovules 1, 2, amphitropous, descending, with superior and 
exterior micropyle. Fruit drupaceous, with 3, 4 shells, indehiscent, 
the stone often 2-locellate. Seeds albuminous, with recurved em- 
bryo.—Shrubs, slightly bitter, with alternate simple leaves, punc- 
tuate upon the edges, and axillary flowers collected in cymes.— 
(1 genus.) 
XI. Zycoruyiiem.'—F lowers hermaphrodite, regular or irregular, 
rarely apetalous.? Stamens hypogynous, equal in number to the 
petals, or double or triple in number, with free filaments, often 
accompanied by a scale within the base. Gynæceum sessile or sti- 
pitate, with several cells (2-12), superposed to the petals when they 

1 Simarubeæ DC. Diss. Ochnac. (in Ann, (1842), 254. — Aa., op. cit., 228, t. 18. — 
Mus., xvii. 323; Prodr., 5. 733, Ord. 752.— Pteleaceæ (part.) K., loc, cit.—DC., Prodr., ii. 
A. Juss., in Mém, Mus., xii. 512.—AG., op. cit., 83.— Connaracee (part.) ENDL., Gen., 1141. 
223.—B. H., Gen. 306, Ord. 40.— Sima- +R. Br. in Flind. Voy., ii. 545 (1814).— 
rubacee Ricu., Anal. du Fr., 21, (1808).— DC, Frodr., i. 703, Ord, 50.—A. Juss. in 
Linpu., Introd., ed. 2,120; Veg. Kingd., 476, Mém. Mus., xii. (1825), 450.—ENDz, Gen., 
Ord. 179.—Enpu., Gen. 1143, Ord. 249.— 1161, Ord, 253.—AG., op. cit., 205, t. 18.—DB. H., 
Ailanthee AG., op. cit., 223. Gen., 262, Ord. 37. — Zygophyllacee Linvt., 
2 Picramnieæ D. H., Gen., 307, 318, Trib. 2.  Jntrod. ed. 2, 133; Veg. Kingd., 478, Ord. 180. 
3 Cneoree W£BB, in Hook. Lond, Journ, i. 5 In Augea (?). 
