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female flower hypogynous cupular ; germen 2-4-celled ; ovules 

 2-nate ; style branches 2, 4, petaloid-dilated multi-partite reflexed 

 rigid persistent. Fruit more or less fleshy or suberous, usually 

 pyramidate-3-coccous ; seed exariUate ; cotyledons of albuminous 

 embryo wide curved, auriculate 5-plinerved at base ; one convex, 

 the other concave. — Trees ', juice sometimes viscous resinous or cera- 

 ceous ; twigs strong subangular nodose ; leaves alternate collected 

 at summit of twigs, petiolate simple penninerved glabrous coriaceous J 

 male flowers crowded in short capitate pedunculate catkin ^ ; bracts 

 few wide petaloid^ inserted at summit of peduncle, and the whole of 

 the bud-shaped inflorescence at first involucrate ; female axillary or 

 supra-axiUary solitary pedunculate. {Trop. East, and West. Africa 

 Gont. and Ins.^) 



136. BischojSia Bl.* — Flowers dioecious apetalous; male nearly 

 of Hymenocardia (or Securinega) ; sepals 5, subimbricate or induplicate- 

 subcucullate. Stamens same in number opposite, inserted below 

 rudiment of short gynseceum crenulate 5-lobed at apex; anthers 

 adnate, laterally or extrorsely rimose. Female calyx 5-partite. 

 Germen 3-4-locular, surrounded at base with 4, 5, or staminbdes ; 

 cells 2 -ovulate; style branches entire recurved. Fruit subfleshy; 

 endocarp pergamaceous, 3-coccous ; seeds exariUate scantily albumi- 

 nous. — Trees; leaves alternate petiolate pinnate- 3-foliolate ; folioles 

 crenate-dentate penninerved petiolulate ; flowers ^ in more or less 

 ramified compound axillary racemes. {Asia and warm Oceania.^) 



137. Piranhea H. Bn.^ — Flowers, it seems, dioecious ; sepals 4-6, 

 finally patent, imbricated. Stamens qo (8-15); filaments free exserted, 

 inserted on convex receptacle ; glands intermixed nearly same in 

 number unequally -capitate shortly stipitate ; anthers introrse sub-2- 

 dymous, longitudinally rimose. Female calyx 6-partite ; folioles 2- 

 seriate imbricated. Germen surrounded at base by 6 glands (stami- 

 nodes ?) ; cells 3, opposite exterior sepals; style branches 3, subulate 



^ Simiilating a large flower. Journ. idv. 298. — Stylodiseus Benn. PI. Jav. 



2 When dry red, sometimes very fragrant. Mar. 133, t. 29. — Endl. Gen. n. 6868 >. 



^ Spec, ad 7. M. Abq. in Flora (1864), 617 ; ' Male very small crowded, 



in Seem, Journ. i. 332. — H. Bn. iu Adansonia, " Spec. 1, 2. Koxb. PL Ind. iii. 728 (Andrach- 



i. 81 ; ii. 43 ; xi. 176. n«).— Hook. Icon. t. 844.— Wmht, Icon. t. 1880 



• * 'Sydr. 1168 (Bi3eho_fia).~B.. Bn. Evphorb. {Mioroelus). — Dcnb. in Jaequem. Voy. Pot. 152, 



694, t. 26, fig. 26-32.— M. Arg. Prodr. 478.— t. 164.— Walp. Ann. i. 624. 



Mieroelut Wight et Ails, in Edinb. New. Phil. ' In Adansonia, vi. 236, t. 6. 



