318 NATUBAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



suspended from fanicle. Eruit long stipitate, enlarged at base by 

 stellate patent foliaceous much accrescent petals, subglobose, reniform 

 or depressed, indeMscent. Cotyledons of thick seed conformed 

 to cell, plano-convex; radicle short accumbent ascendent. — Large 

 trees with varnish like sap ; leaves alternate simple entire coriaceous 

 exstipulate ; flowers ^ in axillary much compound-ramified racemes. 

 {Malaisia, Bornea, Birmah?) 



21. Astronium Jacq.* — Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamous 

 (nearly oi Melanorrhoea) ; sepals 5, or orbicular (coloured), imbricated, 

 finally accrescent and scarious, persistent round base of fruit. 

 Petals 5, alternate, sometimes in female flower small squamiform, 

 imbricated. Stamens 5, alternipetalous, inserted below base of 

 annular 5-lobed disk; filaments free short; anthers (effete in female 

 flower), introrse, 2-rimose. Gerinen sessile, 1-locular; style 

 branches 3, short ; inserted at summit of germen, stigmatiferous at 

 apex ; ovule descendent from wall of ceU near apex ; micropyle 

 superior. Fruit drupaceous or coriaceous, oblong or subglobose 

 rostrate, involucrate with foliaceous calyx; testa of oblong seed 

 membraneous ; radicle of exalbuminous embryo short straight accum- 

 bent ; cotyledons straight plano-convex. — Large trees ; leaves alter- 

 nate imparipianate, folioles opposite, entire or crenate ; flowers * 

 crowded in much ramified-compound axillary and terminal racemes. 

 {South trop. Cont. America and Antilles J") 



22. Parishia Hook, Jun.® — Flowers (nearly of Astronium) 4- 

 merous ; sepals valvate. Petals oblong, erose, imbricated. Fruit 

 ovoid tomentose, surrounded by 4 large obtuse veiaed sepals. Other 

 characters of Astronium. — A choice tree ; leaves alternate impari- 

 pinnate ; folioles oo, alternate petiolate coriaceous; inflorescence 

 large (ferruginous-tomentose) nutant. {MalaisiaJ) 



23. Loxostylis Spebng.^ — Flowers polygamous ; sepals 5, lanceo- 



1 Medium. — Makch. in Aftr. Vidd. Medd. Kjoh. (1873), 



- Spec. 3, 4. Walp. Sep. i. 555. 413.— Walp. Ann. vii. 646. 



3 Stirp. Amer. 261, 1. 181, fig. 96. — K-ia Ann. ^ In Trans. Linn. Soc. xxiii. 169, t. 26. — B. 



So. Nat. ser. 1, ii. 341.— DO. Prodr. ii. 65.— H. Gen. 424, n. 24. 



Endl. O-en. n. 5909. — B. H. Gen. 423, 1000, n. ' Spec. 1. P. insignis Hook. f. loc. cit. — 



24. — Maboh. Anac. 77, 199 (part.). — Myracro- Astronium insigne'ilLis.GB.. Anacard. 79, 179. 



druon Allem. in Trab. Comm. Se. de Expl. Sect. s Ex Keiohb. h. Exot. t. 205. — -EoKl,. at 



Bot. 3, t. 1, 2. Zeth. Enum. PI. Cap. 162.— Endl. Gen. n. 



* Small, bracteate. 5908.— B. H. Gen. 421, n. 12.— Makch. 



' Spec. 8, 9. Griseb. Fl. Brit. W.-Ind. 176. Anacard. 80, WO.—AnasyUis E Met. in. exa. 



— Tb. et Pl. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 5, xiv. 288. Dr&g. (ex. Endl.). 



