TEREBINTHAOE.^. 319 



late membraneous, imbricated, in the female flower finally accres- 

 cent. Petals 5, longer, slightly unequal, imbricated. Stamens 6, 

 alternipetalous ; filaments alternating with the same number of 2-fid 

 glands, inserted round shortly cupular receptacle, very unequal; 

 anthers introrse, 2-rimose. Germ en (in male flower 0) oblique 

 compressed, 1 -locular ; branches of lateral style 3, unequally long, 

 capitate, stigmatiferous at apex ; ovule inserted at summit of short 

 ascendent funiole ; micropyle superior. Drupe suborbicular oblique 

 compressed, much surpassed in length by foliaceous accrescent calyx ; 

 epicarp subcrustaceous ; mesocarp densely fleshy (black) ; putamen 

 reniform corneous ; seed ascendent ; cotyledons of exalbuminous 

 embryo rather flat ; radicle accumbent rather longer. A small glabrous 

 tree ; leaves alternate, imparipinnate ; folioles opposite entire coria- 

 ceous ; rachis winged j flowers in terminal much ramified-compound 

 racemes. (South Africa}) 



24. Loxopterygium Hook. Jun.^— Flowers polygamous (nearly 

 of Astronium) ; calyx 5-lobed, imbricated. Petals same in number, 

 small, imbricated. Stamens equal in number to petals, alternate, 

 inserted below thick annular and obtusely lobed disk; filaments 

 subulate ; anthers small, introrsely rimose. Germen 1 -locular 

 compressed-winged produced, and 3-eapitellate-stigmatiferous ; ovule 

 basilar-erect inserted at summit of funicle ; micropyle inferior. .Fruit 

 dry, produced at apex in suberect or falcate wing-shaped veined 

 samara ; testa of inverse seeds membraneous ; cotyledons of fleshy 

 embryo superior plano-convex. — Large trees ; leaves alternate im- 

 paripinnate ; folioles opposite petiolulate or sessile, entire or crenate- 

 dentate ; flowers in much ramified axillary racemes " paniculate.'' 

 [Trop. America.^) 



25. Botryceras W.* — Flowers dioecious or polygamous, 4-§- 

 merous ; sepals oblong, imbricated, persistent. Petals same in 

 number alternate refiexed-patent, imbricated. Stamens equal in 

 number, inserted below a rather wide fleshy disk ; filaments free ; 

 anthers introrse, gibbous, 2-rimose. Germen compressed-ovate; 



1 Spec. 1. L. alata Sprbnq.— Eckl. etZEYH. * In Berl. Mag. v. 396.— Endl. Gen. n. 

 Enrnn. 152.— Harv. et ^osd. Fl. Cap. i. 624. 5907.— B.H.(r«». 426, n. 33.— March. .^Mcar*?. 

 —L. latifoUa Presl. — Anasyllis mgmtifoUa 75, Vll .—Laurophylhis T-uvsb. Prodr. 31 ; Fl. 

 E. Met. — A. latifoUa E. Mey. Cap. 163. — Bernh. in Linncea, xii. 129-136. — 



2 Gen. 419, n. 6.— Mabch. Anacard. 180. Baphnitis Spbeng. Syst. i. 370. 

 •I Spec. 2, 3. 



