TEREBLNTHAOEM. 311 



membranous contortuplicate ; radicle short superior. — Trees or bal- 

 samic shrubs; branches often spinescent; leaves alternate, 1-3 -folio- 

 late or imparipinnate ; folioles entire or serrate ; flowers axillary or 

 lateral, shortly or long racemose ; racemes sometimes fasciculate, 

 cymiferous, more or less ramified and composite. [South West, and 

 Tropical Cont. and ins. East. Asia.^) 



7? Dasycarya Liebm.^. -- Flowers polygamous; receptacle 

 shortly cupular, clothed inwardly with disk 10-crenate at margin 

 annular clasping base of germen. Sepals 5, free or scarcely 

 connate af base, valvate, persistent. Petals 5, alternate, longer, in- 

 duplicate-valvate or scarcely imbricated. Stamens 10, 2 -seriate 

 verticillate ; filaments exterior to disk free ; alternipetalous slightly 

 longer; anthers introrse, 2-rimose. Grermen (rudimentary in male 

 fiower) free; style short, stigmatiferous at apex, 3-5-lobed; cells 

 2 -ovulate; ovules collaterally descendent incompletely anatropous 

 subfalcate ; micropyle extrorse superior. Drupe scantily fleshy rather 

 villose; putamen usually 3-locular; seeds in cells 1-3 solitary; 

 radicle of exalbuminous rather thick embryo superior inflexed. — A 

 tree grey or tawny -haired ; leaves alternate collected at summit of 

 twigs imparipinnate; folioles opposite, very shortly petiolulate, 

 entire acuminate ; flowers in axillary slender alternately cymiferous 

 spikes. [Mexico.^) 



8 ? Paiveusea Welw.* — Flowers dioecious apetalous ; male calyx 

 minutely oblique or gibbous, unequally-6-8-lobed, imbricated. Sta- 

 mens 6-8, inserted round crenate disk ; filaments free thin; anthers 

 basifixed short ; cells 2 -laterally rimose. Female calyx larger than 

 male. Germen free, 2-locular, surrounded at base by six staminodes 

 ciliate hypogynous, sometimes connate in ring ; branches of short 

 style 2, reniform stigmatiferous at apex; ovules in cells 2-nate de- 

 scendent ; micropyle extrorse superior.^ Fruit (immature) stipate by 



1 Spec, atout 15, Porsk. Descr. Mcj.-Ardb. [Balsamodendron) ; ii. 830; Ann. ii. 289 [Bal- 



79 (Amyris). — Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 244 {Amyris). samodendron) ; vii. 546 {Balsamodendron), 547 



— Akn. in Ann. Nat. Eist. iii. 87. — Harv. et (Balsamophlceos), 648 [Sitzeria). 



SoND. Fl. Cap. i. 526 {Balsamodendron). — ^ In Viddmsk. Meddel. Kjobenh. (1853), 98.— 



KoTSCH. et Petr. in PI. Tinn. ii. t. 5, B. — B. H. Q-en. 427, n. 38.— March. Anaoard. 160. 



Hook. p. in Sook. Kew Journ. i. 259, t. 8, 9.— ' Spec. 1. B. grisea Liebm. Loc. cit. — Waip. 



ScHWEiNr. Beitr. Fl. Mth. i. 30.— Olit. Fl. Ann. iv. 447. 



Trap. Afr. i. 324 {Balsamodendron), 328 {Hem- * In Trans. Linn. Soe. xxvii. 20, t. 7. — B. H. 



prichia), 460 {Hitxeria). — H. Bn. in Adansonia, Gen. 993, n. 5 a. 



xi. 180.— Walp. Rep. i. 567 {Protium), 668 « Obturated? 



