288 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



follows ttat the Phytocrenece, inseparable on the whole from the 

 Mappiece, ought, by connection, to be put in the same family. 

 This is then found divided in five series or tribes whose distinctive 

 characters are as follow : 



I. Spondie^.^ — Gynseoeum, formed of many carpels, independent or 

 united in their ovary. Cells 1-ovulate. Ovules descendent, with supe- 

 rior and interior micropyle. Seeds exalbumiuous. Leaves simple 

 or compound. — 3 genera. 



II. BuESEEE^.^ — Gynseceumwith many carpels (2-6) united below 

 in a plurilocular ovary. Cells 2-ovulate. Ovules descendent, supe- 

 rior and exterior micropyle. Seeds exalbuminous. Leaves com- 

 pound, 1-Qo -foliolate. — 9 genera. 



III. AjfACAEDiE^.^ — Gynseceum with one or more carpels, only 

 one of them fertile in the ovary. Single cell 1-ovulate. Ovule 

 having very variable direction,* always having the micropyle directed 

 upwards primatively. Seeds with but little abundant albumen or 

 none. Leaves simple and compound.— 29 genera. 



IV. MAPPiEiE.^ — Gyneeceum with one or inore^ carpels, only one 

 amongst them (rarely two or three) fertile in the ovary. Single cell, 

 1- or more often 2-ovulate. Ovules descendent, with interior and 

 superior micropyle. Seeds with entire or lobate albumen, embryo very 

 small or developed, and provided with large and foliaceous cotyledons. 

 Leaves simple. — 15 genera. 



Y. Phttocrene^.' — Gynseceum constructed like that of Mappiece. 



1 Spondiacece K. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 1, ii. close up to the summit. Accordingly it becomes 

 362. — Endl. Gen. 1134. — J. Q-. Agakdh, Theor. with age more or less ascendent or descendent, 

 Syst. 220. — Spondiece {AnaeardiaeecB trib. 2) B. a direction which has not, in consequence, much 

 H. Qen. 417, 426 (part.). value and which also depends on whether the 



2 Bwseracece K. in.,^««. Sc. Nat. loc. eit. 333. support of the ovule may be longer or shorter, 

 — DC. Prodr. ii. 75. — Lindl. Introd. ed. 2, 110. and carry back the insertion of the umbilicus 

 — Endl. Gen. 1135, Ord. 246. — B. H. Oeii. to a greater or less heigth. 



321, Ord. 42. — J. G. Ao. op. eit. 219. — March. * H. Bn. in Adansonia, Hi. 354; x. 261, xi. 



in. Adansonia, viii. 17. — Baksr, Fl. Maurit. i3. 187. — Icaoinea Benth. ex Lindl. Veg. Kingd. 



— Amyridece 'R.'&B.. Congo, loc. eit — Amyridaceee 444 (Olaeaceee sect.).— B. H. Qen. 344, 350 



Lindl. F«?. -BTw^A (1846), 469, Ord. 171. {Olacincm trib. 3). — Icacinacece Miees, Con- 



3 CassmiiecB (v. Anacardece) E. Br. Congo, loc. trib. i. 34, 48. 



eit. — dnacardiacete Lindl. Introd. ed. 2, 166 ; * Generally three. 



Veg. Kingd. 465, Ord. 174.— Endl. Gen. 1127, ' Endl. Gen. 828.— E. Be. in Benn. PI. Jav. 



Ord. 245.— B. H. Gen. 415, Ord. 63. — L. Sar. 244.— B. B.. Gen. 354 {Olacin. trib. 4).— 



March. Hes T^riUnthacSes (Anacard.) . . .Paris H. Bn. in DC. Prodr. xvii. 7. Artocarpeanm 



(1869).— Baker, Fl. Maurit. 61.—Sumachinece gen. Bl. Bydr. 483.— Lindl. Veg. Kingd. 271. 



DO. Frodr. ii. 66. — Tkeocl, in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, viii. 147* 



4 It is inserted in the internal angle of the (uec 148, innot.).— P Cardiopteridece E. Br. Uc. 

 cell, but at a very variable point (and that often eit. 248.— Bl. Rimphia, iii. 205.— Sohnizl. 

 in the same type) of its length, from the base leonogr. faso. 14. — H. Bn. Frodr. loc. eit. 26. 



