316 natvbal history of plants. 



16 ? Tapirira Aubl.^ — Flowers polygamous, 4-5-merous, nearly 

 of Sorindeia and Nothoprotium; sepals and petals imbricated. 

 Stamens twice as numerous as petals iaserted below cupular disk. 

 Germen in male flower 4-5-merous, more or less immersed in disk 

 and free from the style except at base; in. female flower 1-locular; 

 styles thick, 3-6 truncate or capitellate stigmatiferous at apex ; ovule 

 inserted somewhat below apex of cell, descendent ; micropyle supe- 

 rior. Drupe compressed ; exalbuminous seed and other characters 

 of Sorindeia. — Erect or scandent trees or shrubs; leaves alternate, 

 imparipianate ; folioles often opposite ; iaflorescence of Sorindeia or 

 Spondias. {Tropical Asia, Africa, and America?) 



17 ? Hsematostaphis Hooe. f.^ — Flowers dioecious 3-merous, 

 subregular or slightly irregular ; male calyx small, 3-fid, imbricated, 

 afterwards subvalvate. Petals 3, longer, often unequal, imbricated. 

 Stamens 6, 2-seriate ; fllaments slender, inserted outside between 

 2-fid, 3 lobes of interior disk ; 3, alternipetalous, 'much longer ; 

 anthers small, iritrorse, 2-rimose. Female flower ? Fruit drupa- 

 ceous oblong ; * putamen bony ; cell inwardly subcarinate ; seed 

 descendent ; embryo ? — A small glabrpus tree ; leaves alternate 

 imparipianate, collected at summit of twigs deciduous; folioles 

 alternate petiolulate oblong ; flowers * ia elongated axillary racemes 

 much ramified " paniculate ; " pedicels bracteate at base. {Tropical 

 West Africa.^) 



18. Gluta L7 — Flowers hermaphrodite, 4-6-or offcener 5-merous ; 

 calyx subspathaceous valvate, unequaUy-broken, caducous. Petals usu- 



' Gaian. i. (1776), 470, t. 188. — Jonequetia in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 5, xiv. 293. — Netto, in 



ScHEEB.<?e«.(1789),308.— Tnspma J.(?ct.(1789), Ann. Sc, Nat. ser. 5, v. 85, t. 9 (OA«a).— Out. 



372.— Pom.inia»«/i;.Z)j(!*.vii.583. — Lamk. /B. t. Fl. trap. Afr. i. 445 {Odina) .—MiQ,. M. Ind.- 



283.— DC.i'jWr.iJ. 90.— Endl. Gem.n. 5943.— Bat.i.^.n. 622 (Odt'«a).— Walp. JJep. i. 550. 



B. H. Gen. 423, n. 20.— March. Anacard. 34, v.412 {Odina), 416 ; ^«B.ii. 280 ; iii.843 (Odina) ; 



163. — Salaberria Neck. Elem. n. 985. — Pegia vii. 646 {Odina). 



CoLEBR. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xv. 56i.— Ci/rto- 3 In Trans. Linn. Soc. xxiii. 169, t. 25. — B. 



carpa H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Spec. vii. 20, H. Gen. 422, n. 18. — March. Anacard. 2S* 



t. 609. — Odina Eoxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 293.— 160. 



Enbl. Gin. n. 5898. — March, Uc. cit. 38. — B.H. ■• " Uvse sanguinesB subsimilis, edulis." 



Oen. 423, 1001, n. 22.—PJihboehiton Wall, in * Small, white. 



Trans. Med. et Phil. Soc, Calc. vii. 230. — Endl. " Spec. 1. H. Sarteri Hook. p. loc. cit. — Oliv. 



Gni. Suppl. iii. 100. — Lannea Guill. et Peee. Fl. trap. Afr. i. 443. — Walp. Ann. vii. 646. 



Fl. Sen. Tent. i. 153, t. 42. — Harpejjhyllum 1 Mantiss. 293. — J. Gen. 427. — DO. Prodr. i. 



Beknh. ex Kbatjss, in Flora (1844), 349.— 501.— Endl. Gen. n. 5911.— B. H. Gen. 421, n. 



Wirtgenia {purt.) Jtjngh. in Flora {i84:i), 624, IO.—Maroh. Anacard. 112, 189.— Syndesmis 



(ex Hassk. Cat. Sort. Tiog. 247). Wall, in Moxb. Fl. Ind. ii. SU.—Stagmaria 



3 Spec, about 26. Habv. et Sond. Fl, Cap Jack, Mai Misc. ex. Sook. Comp. to Bot. Mag. 



i. 603 {Odina), 524 {Saipephi/llum).—FL. et Tb. i. 267. 



