COMBRETACEM. 



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Terminalia {Oonocarpus) erecta. 



Venezuela, has a slightly fleshy fruit with three to six thick vertical 

 wings, entire, sinuous, or lobed at the margin. Besides, their flowers 

 are collected in capitules, that is, the principal axis remains the 

 shortest as often, happens in 

 the true Terminalia, although 

 the latter frequently have also 

 flowers in elongate simple or 

 compound spikes (fig. 235). 

 The flowers of Anogeissus are 

 also in capitules. This is why 

 we have not retained, as dis- 

 tinct from Terminalia, Oono- 

 carpus (fig. 240), which has 

 the same apetalous, pentame- 

 rous flowers as Terminalia, 

 but the inflorescences of which 

 become small globular capi- 

 tules collected in clusters. In 

 Gonocarpus, the fruit is finally 

 surrounded externally by per- 

 sistent recurved bracts re- 

 maining close to each other 

 so that the whole forms a sort 

 of cone. Thus limited, this genus comprises nearly a hundred 

 species, all tropical, common to the four quarters of th^ globe, 

 principally in the old world. 



Fig. 240. 'Ploriferous branch. 



II. TUPELOS SEEIES. 



Tupelos^ (fig. 241-244) has polygamo-dicecious flowers. In 

 the male flower, the summit of the pedicel is dilated to a small 

 calyx with five or more short teeth, surmounted by a thick 



• Ni/ssa Gbonov. Virg. 162. — L. (?en. n. H63. 

 —J. Gen. 75. — Lamk. III. t. 851.— Pom. Diet. 

 iv. 508 ; Suppl. iv. 115. — G-tertn, y. Fruet. iii. 

 201, t. 216. — Spaoh, Suit, a Bufon, x. i63.— 

 Endl. Gen. n, 2086.— Lindl. Yeg. Kingd. 720.— 



A. DO. Trodr. xiv. 622. — H. Bn. Adansonia, v. 

 196.— B. H. Gen. 952, n. \\.— Tupelo Catesb. 

 (ex Adans. Fam. des PI. ii. 80). — Cynoxylon 

 Pluk. (ex Adans. loo. oil.) 



