510 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
ceous, petiolate ; flowers’ in terminal and axillary compound-ramified 
racemes’ (Zrop. West. Africa’). 
109. Soulamea Lamxk.'— Flowers polygamous, 3-merous, more 
rarely 4—5-merous; receptacle short. Sepals free or connate at 
base, valvate or imbricated. Petals same in number, alternate 
longer, usually linear-patent, imbricated or subvalvate. Stamens 
double in number to petals, 2-seriate (in female flower sterile or 0) ; 
filaments free, naked; anthers short extrorse, 2-rimose. Glands 
opposite petals, equal in number to them, thick subtruncate, some- 
times unequally lobed. Germen (in male flower rudimentary or 
oftener 0) free, compressed, 2-locular; styles 2, short distant, 
capitate, recurved, stigmatiferous at apex; ovules solitary in cells, 
descending, incompletely anatropous ; micropyle extrorse, superior. 
Fruit indehiscent, obcordate, dry, coriaceous, marginally winged ; 
wings short, thick or wide, submembranous, veined ; endocarp lig- 
neous, 2-locular. Seeds solitary in cells, affixed at middle or de- 
scendent; testa membranous; albumen thin; embryo inverse; 
cotyledons elliptical or oblique oblong; radicle short, superior.— 
Bitter glabrous or villous trees and shrubs ; leaves alternate, long 
petiolate, simple 3-foliolate or imparipinnate ; flowers’ in spikes or 
racemes, simple, axillary, cymiferous (Warm Subtrop. Oceania’). | 
110? Amaroria A. Gray.’— Flowers l-sexual, male nearly of 
Soulamea, “ 3-merous, 3-androus ; stamens alternipetalous ; anthers 
subsessile ; 3 lobes of fleshy disk 2-fid.” Female flowers 4, 5-merous ; 
sepals short, persistent, and petals same in number, alternate narrow 
patent. Staminodes (?) 5-10, inserted below thick crenate disk. 
Germen excentric, unequally-ovid, 1-locular; ovule 1, descending, 
incompletely anatropous ; micropyle extrorse, superior ; style short, 

1 Small, odoriferous, whitish or yellow. Gen., 313, n. 22.—Cardiocarpus REINW., in 
2 A genus scarcely of this series, hence agree- 
ing with Balanite by its insipid epunctuate 
leaves, its insertion of gynæceum, and its 
drupaceous fruit; whence better perhaps con- 
nected with Burseracee. 
3 Spee. 2 (v. 3, 4, quar., of which 2 are im- 
perfectly known). Oxrv., Fl. Trop. Afr., i. 
313.—WALDP., Ann, vii. 541. 
4 Dict., i, 449.—J., Gen., 429.—DC., Prodr.. 
i. 335 (Polygaleæ)—A. 8S. H., et Mog., in 
Mém. Mus., xix. 3384.—ENDL., in Ann. Wien. 
Mus., i. 188, t. 16; Gen., n. 5658.—B. H., 
Syll, Pl. Ratisb., ii, 14, — Cardiophora 
BentuH., in Hook. Lond. Journ., ii. 216. 
5 Minute. 
5 Species about 8, 1 of Molucca (Rex ama- 
roris RuMpx.), most of warm southern regions. 
Hassk., in Bull, Soc. Bot. de Fr., x. 874.—Br. & 
GR., in Ann. Sc, Nat., sér. 5, iii. 229; in Nouv. 
Arch. Mus., iv. t. 37.—Waxr., Ann. i. 168; 
vii, 541. 
7 Unit. St. Expl. Exped., Bot., 337, t. 40.— 
B. H., Gen., 314, n. 23. 
