222 XXXI. OCHNACE^. [Brachenridgea. 



form. Drupes 5, fleshy, seated on a broad disk. Seeds annular with a mem- 

 branous testa ; embryo annular, cotyledons linear. — Branching shrubs. Leaves 

 alternate, petiolate, entire. Stipules jagged. Peduncles fasciculate, 1 -flowered, 

 axillary and terminal. Flowers somewhat small. 



1. B. australiana (Australian), F. v. M. Fragm. v. 29 and 213. A large 

 tree, quite glabrous. Leaves lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, tapering to somewhat 

 long points, petiole very short, chartaceous, 3 to Sin. long, 1 to 2in. broad, 

 entire, shining on both sides, penninerved. Fascicles axillary or terminal, often 

 few in pendulous clusters. Pedicels |^in. or less, bracteoles minute. Sepals ovate 

 or orbicular-ovate, about 3 lines long, somewhat thick. Petals membranous, 

 cuneate-ovate,- deciduous. Filaments very short ; anthers curved-linear, connivent; 

 yellow, scarcely over 1 line long, dehiscing by an apical pore. Style IJ line long. 

 Carpels 5 or fewer, round and moderately compressed, seated upon the pyramidal- 

 hemispherical disk. — F. V. M., I.e. 



Hab.; Bockingham Bay, J. Dallachy (F. v. M., I.e.) 



Order XXXII. BURSERACEJE. 



Flowers regular, hermaphrodite or polygamous. Calyx usually small, 3 to 5- 

 lobed or divided into as many distinct sepals. Petals 3 to 5, hypogynous or 

 perigynous, imbricate or valvate in the bud. Stamens twice as many as petals, 

 or rarely of the same number, inserted on or around the disk ; anthers versatile, 

 with 2 parallel cells opening longitudinally. Disk usually annular or cupular, 

 often adnate to the base of the calyx. Ovai^y free, 2 to 5-c6lled, tapering into a 

 single style, with an entire or lobed stigma. Ovules 2 in each cell or rarely 

 solitary, usually pendulous, the micropyle superior. Fruit a drupe, either 

 indehiscent or the epicarp opening in 2 valves, pyrenes 2 to 5, bony or char- 

 taceous, distinct or united. Seeds solitary in each pyrene, pendulous ; testa 

 membranous ; albumen none. Cotyledons usually membranous, folded or rarely 

 thick and fleshy. — Shrubs or trees, often yielding a balsamic fluid. Leaves 

 usually alternate, pinnate, or iji genera not Australian 8-foliolate, without or 

 rarely with stipules. Flowers small, in racemes or panicles. 



The Order is spread over most tropical regions. The Australian genera are widely dispersed 

 over tropical Asia, one is also in Africa, and the others in tropical America. — Benth. (in part) . 



Calyx 5-lobed, the disk lining the tube, with the stamens on the margin . . 1. Gaeuga. 

 Calyx small, 4 to 6-partite. Stamens 8 to 12, inserted at the base of the 



annular disk. Flowers usually in panicles 2. BtjksSiea. 



Calyx 3-lobed, the disk free, with the stamens outside or on the margin . . 3. Canarium. 

 Calyx 5-fid, valvate. Petals none. Stamens alternate with the calyx-lobes 



inserted at base of disk 4. Ganophyllum. 



1. GARUGA, Eoxb. 



Flowers polygamous. Calyx campanulate, 5-lobed, valvate. Petals 5, inserted 

 above the middle of the calyx-tube, induplicate-valvate. Disk thin, lining the 

 calyx-tube. Stamens 10, inserted with the petals. Ovary 4 or 5-celled ; styles 

 elongated ; ovules 2 in each cell. Drupe indehiscent, with 5 or fewer bony nuts, 

 rugose outside. Seeds solitary in each nut ; cotyledons folded. — Trees. Leaves 

 pinnate. Flowers rather large for the Order, in terminal panicles. 



The genus is dispersed over tropical Asia and America ; the Australian species extends at least 

 Timor, and is perhaps a variety of a common Asiatic one. — Benth. 



1. Cr. floribunda (flowers numerous), Dene. Herb. Tim. Bescr. 149 ; Benth. 

 Fl. Austr. i. 377. Branches thick, marked with the broad scars of the fallen 

 leaves. Leaves crowded at the ends of the branches ; leaflets 7 or 8 pairs, very 



