320 XLI. ANACABDIACEiE. 



Tkiee I. A.naoa,rdiese.— Ovary l-celled, or if 2-celled with one cell early suppressed. 



A. Ovules pendulous from a basal funicle. 



* Sepals and petals not accrescent. 

 Calyx 4 to 5-partite. Petals 4 to 6 Stamens 4 to 10. Leaves 



alternate, usually compound 1- Rhus. 



Calyx 5-lobed, imbricate. Petals S, erect, imbricate. Stamens 10. 



Styles 3, free, spreading. Leaves pinnate. Drupe globose. Seeds 



ovoid, compressed 2. BnoDOSPHaiBA. 



Calyx 4 to 5-partite. Petals 4 to 5. Stamens 1 to 5. Style filiform. 



Leaves alternate, simple .' 3- Manoiteba. 



Calyx 3 to 5-lobed. Petals 3 to 5. Stamens 10. Carpels 5 to 6, one 



only perfect. Style short. Leaves alternate, simple 4. Buchanania. 



B. Ovules pendulous from the top of the cell or from the walls of the ovary 



above the middle. 

 Petals imbricate. Stamens 10. Styles 3. Drupes compressed, evittate. 



Leaves pinnate • 5- Eubosohinot. 



Petals imbricate. Stamens 5. Styles 3. Drupe on a much-enlarged 



peduncle 6. Semecakpds. 



Tribe II. SponAiese.— Ovary 2 to 5 or more-celled. Ovules pendulous. Leaves pinnate. 

 Polygamous-dioecious. Calyx 5-partite. Petals 5. Stamens 10. Ovary 

 usually 12-celled 7. PLEioorainM. 



1. RHUS, Linn. 

 (From the red colour of fruit.) 



Flowers polygamous. Calyx small, of 4 to 6, usually 5, imbricate sepals. 

 Petals as many as sepals, imbricate in the bud. Disk broad, flat or annular. 

 Btamens as many as petals or rarely 10, inserted round the base of the disk. 

 Ovary l-celled ; styles 3, free or connate, with simple or capitate stigmas ; ovule 

 suspended from an erect filiform funicle. Drupe globular or compressed, usually 

 small. Seed inverted or transverse, the radicle turned upwards. — Trees or 

 shrubs. Leaves pinnate, 8-foliolate, or in species no| Australian simple. Flowers 

 small, in terminal or axillary panicles^ 



The species are numerous in the warmer extratropioal regions of both the northern and 

 southern hemispheres, especially in S. Africa, more rare within the tropics. — Benth. 



1. TL. rufa (red), Teysman and Binnesidyk in Naturk. Tijd. xxvii. 52, F. v. 

 M. in Cens, Austr. Plants. An evergreen, unarmed and small tree with a milky 

 sap and smooth bark, the branchlets, peduncles and rhachis thinly pubescent. 

 Leaves impari-pinnate, 3 to 9-jugate ; leaflets 3 to Sin. long, 1 to Ifin. broad, flat, 

 chartaeeous, ovate or oblong-lanceolate, quite entire, the upper side glabrous, 

 pilose and opaque on the under side. Panicles racemose ; flowers small, 

 pentandrous. Sepals imbricate ciliate, ^ line diameter. Petals ovate, scarcely 1 

 line long, white, glabrous outside and inside from middle to base pilose. Stamens 

 5, the sterile ones very short. Disk crenulate, glabrous. Ovary pilose. Stigmas 

 almost sessile. Drupe small, about 2 or 3 lines diameter, black, glabrous, 

 oblique, rotund, moderately compressed. Pericarp dry, fragile, shining. 

 Putamen fuivo-lividum, very hard. Albumen none. Cotyledons flattish, pale. 

 Radicle curved cylindric. — R. panaciformis, P. v. M. Fragm. vii. 22. 



Hab.: About Eockiugham Bay and Valley of Lagoons, J. Dallachy (F. v. M., I.e.) 



2. RHODOSPHiERA, Engl. 



(Colour and shape of fruit.) 



Flowers polygamo-dioeeious. Calyx-segments 5, imbricate. Petals 5, erect, 

 imbricate. Stamens 10 (short in the female flowers ?), filaments subulate, anthers 

 obtuse at both ends, of equal length and dehiscing longitudinally. Disk short, 

 cupuliform, slightly 10-crenate. Ovary sessile, subglobose ; ovules solitary, 



