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Single cell, 1-3-ovulate. Ovules descendent, with superior and 

 interior inicropyle. Seeds withoiit or, more often, with albumen, 

 entire or lobate. Stems climbing. Leaves simple. Flowers dioecious, 

 monoperianthate (except in Cardiopteris) with or v^ithout epicalyx. — 

 8 genera. 



The types wrongly attributed to it or whose place is still uncer- 

 tain ^ being removed, this family contains sixty-seven genera all be- 

 longing to the warmest countries of the world. The Phytocrenece, 

 twenty-two species of which are at present known, all belong to 

 the tropical and sub-tropical regions of the old world. The Mappiece 

 have four American genera, two common to both worlds, and eleven 

 peculiar to the old world. The latter contain forty species. The 

 genera proper to America comprise ten, and of the twenty-five spe- 

 cies of those common to both worlds a dozen are limited to the old. 

 The majority of Burserew belong to the old world, which, of nine 

 genera, owns five, including nearly eighty species out of the hun- 

 dred and thirty constituting the series. The three genera peculiar 

 to America only include ten species. The Burserece, which, as we 



1 These are, besides SiimpMa, of whichi we 

 have spoken before (p. 286, note 6) : 



1st. Augia (LouB. Fl. Cochinch. ed. 1790, 

 337 ; — Endl. Gen. n. 5926). A Chinese tree with 

 imparipinnate leaves, pentamerous, polyandrous 

 flowers, drnpaceous sublenticuLir fruit. Giv- 

 ing by incision a stimulant acrid resinous var- 

 nish (has been compared to Ehiis, and ap- 

 proaches, perhaps, on account of its numerous 

 stamens, Melanorrhaa?). 



2nd. Bouea (Meissjt. Osn. Comm, 75 ; — B. H. 

 Gen. 420, n. 9 ; — March. Anacard. 164 ; — Cam- 

 besaedea Wioht and Arn. not Auctt.). Tree 

 from tropical Asia with opposite leaves. 

 Flowers in very ramified cymes, 3-5-merous, 

 calyx short dentate, petals imbricate, andro- 

 ceum isoBtemonous, and gynaeceum whose uni- 

 locular ovary contains a descendent ovule, or, 

 more rarely, two slightly developed, ovules. 

 The direction of these ovules is variable, the 

 fertile one is often found nearly horizontal, 

 the mioropyle being superior (and exterior ?). 

 The fruit is drupaceous, and the seed contains a 

 fleshy embryo {MappieaTj. 



3rd. Dacryodes (Vahl. in Dansk. SeUk. Shrift, 

 vi. 116 ;— Endl; Gen. 14:0,5 ;— Gbiseb. Fl. Brit. 

 W.Ind. 174;— B. H. Gen. 327, n. 16; -March. 

 in Adanaonia, viii. 37, 69). — A tree from the An- 

 tilles, alternate imparipinnate leaves, dioecious 

 flowers. Male flower with thickened obcouioal 



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receptacle, surmounted by a thickened circular 

 disk, whose depressed centre bears a small rudi- 

 mentary gj'nseceum, and whose periphery pre- 

 sents a very short circular calyx, three valvate 

 petals and six stamens, exterior to the diuk 

 arranged on two verticels. The filaments are free, 

 short, surmounted by a basifixed anther, dehis- 

 cent by two longitudinal clefts. The fruit is 

 said to be a monospermous and inferior drupe. 

 This genus is thus removed from the Bursera, 

 to which it is ascribed with doubt. Its glandu- 

 lar-punctate folioles are exactly those of a I'ls- 

 tacia oecidentulia, but it is separated from this 

 genus by the organisation of the male flower 

 and the adhesion of its calyx. 



4th. Bracontomeltm (Bii. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. i, 

 231, t. 42;— B. H. Gen. 427, u. 37;— <?3- 

 meurya H. Bn. in Adanaonia, x. 329 ; Hist, des 

 Pl.iv. 474). — Sutae(B-Za,ithoxylee, 4 or 5 oceanic 

 species. 



5th. Fnrila (Blanco, Fl. d. Filip. 709 ;— B. 

 H. Gen. 428, n. 45). — A tree from the Philip- 

 pines, with alternate imparipinnate leaves, flowers 

 monoecious, 5-merous. Male flower isostemo- 

 nous. Female calyx adnate to the ovary. 

 Fruit drupaceous, globular, monospermous sur- 

 mounted by an elongated wing terminated by 

 two stigmas. Ascribed with doubt to the Ana- 

 cardka {Bhamnece ? ?). 



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