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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



other genera, in particular Anogeissus, Buchenavia, Bucida, Chuncoa, 

 Conocarpus, Pentaptera, Bamaf/uella, whicli we can separate from it 

 only as sub-genera. Terminalia proper lias hermaphrodite, poly- 

 gamous or dioecious flowers, the narrow receptacle of which, after 



'5 

 Terminalia maiiritiana. 



Fig. 236. Flower (J). 



Fig. 235. Floriferous ■branch. 



Fig. 237. Long, 

 sect, of flower. 



Terminnlia {^Anogeissus) leiocarpa. 



enveloping the ovary, immediately expands into a cup similar to that 

 of Combretum, and bears four or five valvate sepals, two series of 

 stamens inserted around the base of the style, ordinarily surrounded 



by a hairy epigynous disk annular or 

 lobed. In the unilocular ovary are 

 found two or three descending ovules 

 similar to those of Laguncularia. 

 The fruit, not, as usual, crowned with 

 the caducous calyx, is very variable 

 in appearance, consistence, and form. 

 'In Badamia, Myrobalanus, and Pa- 

 mcea, it is ovoid, with a roundish or 

 angular putamen. In Catapjoa and 

 Anogeissus, it is compressed or dilated 

 into two marginal wings (fig. 238, 239). In Chuncoa, species whose 

 leaves are frequently opposite and furnished with two glands at the 

 base of the inferior surface, it is small, coriaceous, and prolonged to 

 2-5 expanded membranous wings. In Pentaptera, the leaves of 

 which have ordinarily the same characters, the putamen is osseous 

 or woody, and the wings are 5-7 in number. Bamatuella, from 



Fig. 238. Capitulc 

 of fruit. 



Fig. 239. Single 

 fruit (i). 



