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free, 1-locular; styles same in number inserted at summit of in- 
ternal angle of germen, approximate or more or less cohering and 
twisted among themselves; apex stigmatiferous variously dilated or 
recurved free; ovules in germens solitary descending incompletely 
anatropous; micropyle extrorse superior." Samaras 1-5 free linear- 
oblong membranous veined, at middle seminiferous and sometimes 
subdrupaceous, sometimes apiculate with lateral style; seeds com- 
pressed scantily albuminous; embryo subequal to albumen; cotyle- 
dons flat foliaceous elliptical ; radicle short superior.—Lofty trees ;* 
leaves alternate imparipinnate ; folioles alternate entire, sometimes 
oblique or sinuate-dentate ; flowers’ in much ramified terminal eymi- 
ferous bracteolate racemes (South-East. Asia, Trop. and Subtrop. 
Australia’). 
94. Picræna Linpi.’—Flowers polygamous, 4—5-merous; sepals 
short free or connate at base. Petals longer, subvalvate or slightly 
imbricated. Stamens equal in number to petals and alternating 
with them, inserted below disk, thick depressed between stamens ; 
filaments free esquamate; anthers (effete or 0 in female flowers) 
introrse, 2-rimose. Carpels 3, 4, seated on summit of disk oppositi- 
petalous; germens (rudimentary or 0 in male flower) free (of 
Quassia) ; styles free at base and apex, at middle more or less cohering, 
at apex recurved or reflexed stigmatiferous. Drupes 1-3, and exalbu- . 
minous seeds of Quvassia.—Bitter trees; leaves alternate imparipin- 
nate; folioles opposite entire or crenate; flowers’ in axillary and 
terminal ramified cymiferous racemes (Zrop. America’). 

95. Picrasma Bu.*—Flowers nearly of Picrena ; petals 4, 5, in 
male flower usually marcescent, in female accrescent after anthesis, 
Stamens equal in number to petals (in female flower effete 
Carpels (in male flower sterile) 3-5; styles inserted at 
valvate. 
or 0). 

14. —H. BN., in Adansonia, xi, fase. 1, — 
Muenteria Watr., Rep. v. 398, — Æschryon 
1 Coats double. 
2 Subfetid; bark sometimes bitter. 
3 Small, virescent or whitish. VELLOZ., Fl. Flum., i. t. 152. — Picranena 
4 Spee. ad 4, of which 1 is everywhere common lLinpt, (ex PL, in Hook. Lond. Journ., v. 
(scil. A. glandulosa). Lutr., Stirp., t. 84— 572). 
Roxz., Pl. Coromand., t. 23.—Wiaut & ARN., 
Prodr., i.150.—Wieut, Zcon., t. 1604,—F, 
Movett,. Fragm., iii. 42 (part.).—Brnrnu., F/. 
Austral., i. 373.—Watpr., Rep., v. 165; Ann. 
vii. 5388. 
5 Bot. Med., 208.—B. H., Gen., 311, n. 
6 Small, virescent. 
7 Spee. 8. Pu, in Hook. Lond. Journ. v. 
573 (Picrasma).—GnriseEB., Fl, Brit. W.-Ind., 
140.—Watp., Ann., i. 167 (Picrasma). 
8 Bijdr., 247.— Enpu., Gen., n. 5972, g. 
(Zanthoæylon). —B. H., Gen., 311, n. 12. 
