TEREBINTHAOEM. 317 



ally 5, the margins inserted vertically on elongate 5-agonal receptacle ; 

 but the middle internal face of the stalk free ; ^ limb contorted or more 

 rarely imbricated, finally patent. Stamens equal in number to petals 

 alternating with them ; filaments superposed to spurs of receptacle, 

 inserted higher, otherwise free; anthers introrse, 2-rimose, Germen 

 stipitate oblique subglobose slightly gibbous ; style eccentric erect, 

 simple, stigmatiferous at apex; ovule in cell 1 -basilar descendent 

 from summit of funicle. Eruit subbaccate, corticate deformed, hence 

 sulcate ; seed conformed to cell with accrescent testa ; ^ cotyledons 

 of exalbuminous embryo connate ; radicle short obtuse incurved. — 

 Trees ; leaves alternate petiolate siiople oblong coriaceous ; flowers ^ 

 in much ramified-compound axiUary and terminal racemes. {Ind. 

 Arch. Malacassia.*) 



19. Swintonia Geiff.^ — Flowers hermaphrodite ; lobes of small 

 calyxT, round imbricated. Petals 5, longer, adnate to base of cylin- 

 drical receptacle elongated between them and insertion of stamens 

 and calyx, imbricated, much accrescent. Stamens 5, alternipetalous 

 hypogynous free ; anthers introrse, 2-rimose. Germen sessile on 

 summit of ovoid receptacle, 1 -locular ; style straight, disciform 

 stigmatiferous at apex; ovule basilar suspended from summit of 

 funicle. Fruit drupaceous subdry (?), petals accrescent foliaceous 

 stipate; seed? — A large glabrous tree; leaves alternate simple 

 oblong-lanceolate entire pellucid-punctuate ; flowers in large terminal 

 much racemose-compound clusters. {Malaisia^ Sumatra.^) 



20. Melanorrhoea Wall.' — Flowers hermaphrodite (nearly of 

 Swintonia) ; sepals 5, valvate, unequally-cut in calyx or calyptrate 

 deciduous coherent. Petals elongate, contorted or imbricated, 

 accrescent after anthesis ; stamens oo sometimes very numerous, 

 inserted on receptacle, dilated at base into a thick disk ; filaments 

 slender erect ; anthers introrse. Germen stipitate oblique, 1 -locular ; 

 style simple, stigmatiferous not dilated at apex ; ovule basilar 



1 Receptacle laterally clothed with the same O-en. 421, 1001, u. U.— March. Anacard. Ill, 

 number. 188. — Astropetalum Gkiit. Notul. iv. 411. — 



2 " Sucoo halsameo atro farcta." Anauxopetalum Teysm. et Binn. in Journ. Bot. 



3 Flavid or ochraoeus." Neerl. i. 368. 



"* Spec. 6, 7. Bl. in Flora (1825) ; Bijdr. " Spec. 1. S.florida Gkii-f. loo. cit. 



1159; Mus. iMgd.-Bat. 182, t. 39.— Mia. Fl. ' PL As. Ear. i. 9, t. 11, 12.— Bndl. Qen. n. 



Ind.-Bat. i. p. ii. 622.— Walp. Bep. i. 555; v. 5910.— B.H. &enA2\,n. IZ.—MKBXiTS., Anacard. 



415 ; Ann. u. 283. 114, 187. 



5 "In Duchtre JRev. Bot. ii. 330."— B. H. 



