TEREBINTHACE^. 315 



ramified compoTind-cymiferous racemes, axillary or terminal. {South 

 America.) See p. 266. 



14. Sorindea Dup.-Th.^ — Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamous- 

 dioecious (nearly of Schinus), 4, §-merous ; lobes of lobate or den- 

 tate calyx later not contiguous. Petals longer, valvate. Stamens 

 4, 5, altemipetalous (in female flower sterile) or in male flower 8-20, 

 inserted from base to middle of annular, or cupular thick disk ; 

 filaments free unequal subulate ; anthers introrse, 2-rimose. Ger- 

 men free (in male flower minute or 0), 1-locular ; style thick, stig- 

 matiferous 3-lobed at apex ; ovule subbasUar or laterally inserted, 

 suspended from summit of funicle, and more or less high adnate to 

 walls of germen {Mauria ^) ; micropyle superior, usually more or 

 less obturated from dilatation of summit of funicle. Drupe more 

 or less compressed ; endocarp chartaceous or filamentose ; embryo of 

 inverse seeds exalbuminous ; cotyledons thick-fleshy; radicle 

 superior. — Trees or small trees ; leaves alternate, simple or oftener 

 pinaate, flowers ^ in compound axUlary and terminal racemes. {Trop, 

 America, Africa, and Oceania.'^) 



15. Solenocarpus Wight & Aen.* — Flowers uewclj oi [Sorindeia) 

 hermaphrodite, 5-merous ; calyx dentate, imbricated. Petals 5, 

 valvate. Stamens 10, 2-seriate, inserted below disk. Germen 1- 

 locular ; style simple thickly clavato, oblique truncate stigmatiferous 

 at apex ; ovule descendent nearly from apex of cell ; micropyle 

 superior. Drupe oblique oblong truncate ; mesocarp oily ; putamen 

 bony; seed linear; cotyledons of exalbuminous fleshy embryo, linear; 

 radicle superior short. — A tree ; leaves alternate imparipinnate 

 collected at summit of twigs; folioles opposite; terminal 

 inflorescence and other characters of Sorindeia.^ {Eastern India.'') 



1 Dup.-Th. Gen. Nov. Madag. 23.— K. in Ann. vii. 11, t. 605, 606 (iTawria). —Wight et Arn. 



Sc. Nat. ser. 1, ii. 342.— DC. Frocl/i: ii. 80.— Prodr. i. 170.— Hook. Bot. Misc. iii. 176.— Tb. 



Spach, Suit, a Buffon, ii. 245.— Endl. Qen. n. et Pl. in Ann. So. Nat. ser. 5, xiv. 290 



5895.— B. H. (?e«. 419, n. 4. — Mjluck. Anacard. {Mauria). — Tonii. in Emor. Sep. Bot. t. 7 



42, I67.~l)upmsia KiCH. Gtiiii. et Peer. Fl. {Lithrtgaj.—Ozia. Fl. trop. Afr. i. 439, 444 



Sen. Tent. i. 148, t. 38.— Bndl. Gen. n. 5894. (rWcAosc^^pAa).— Benth. Fl. Austral, i. 490 



—Ewoschinm Hook. p. ©w. 422, n. 16.— rn- {Ilm-oschinus).—'^Ji.-LV.Sep.i. ill, ilZ {Mawia) 



ehoscypha Hook. p. op. oit. 423, n. 21 (ex 550; v. 411, 412; Aim. i. WQ {Mawria) ; ii. 



March.). 280 ; iv. 446 {Mauria). 



2 K. in Ann. So. Nat. s&, 1, ii. 338.— DC. s Prodr. 171.— Endl. G-en. n. 6900.— B. H. 

 Prodr. ii. 73.— Endl. Gen. n. 6903.— March. Gen. 422, n. 19.— March. Anacard. 116, 192. 

 loc. eit. 46. — B. H. Gen. 426, n. Zi.^Lithrma « A genus allied to Sorindeia, having the 

 Miers, Trav. Chil. ii. 629. — Endl. Gen. n. same perianth and sometimes the same andro- 

 5904 (part.).— B. H. Gen. 418 (iJAw).— March. ceum, differing hy simple germen and simple 

 loo. cit. 93, 184. style. 



3 Small, white, yellow or purplish. ' Spec. 1, S. indica Wight et Arn. loe. eit. 

 < Spec, about 25. H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Spec. 



