320 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



style short lateral oblique, 3-4-lobed stigmatiferous at apex ; ovule 

 not far from apex of cell descendent ; micropyle superior. Drupe 

 compressed sub-ovate scantily fleshy, persistently accrescent with 

 lateral style ; exocarp narrow winged, thinly veined ; putamen hard 

 pale ; embryo of descendent seed exalbuminous ; cotyledons plano- 

 convex rather fleshy ; radicle short superior. — A glabrous shrub ; 

 leaves alternate petiolate simple serrate coriaceous ; flowers ^ in very 

 ramified compound terminal racemes ; branches of female inflorescence 

 finally compressed accrescent- dilated thick pectinate incurved and 

 hard ; ^ bracts persistent. {South Africa}) 



26, Smodingium E. Met.* — Flowers polygamous ; calyx small, 

 5-dentate persistent. Petals 5, oblong patent, imbricate, deciduous. 

 Stamens 5, alternipetalous, inserted below annular disk. Germen 

 sessile, 1-locular ; styles 3, capitellate stigmatiferous at apex ; 

 ' ' ovule descendent from summit of cell." Fruit compressed samaroid 

 oblong, unequally winged at margin, vittate on both sides f putamen 

 coriaceous ; embryo of compressed subreniform seeds rather fleshy, 

 exalbuminous; cotyledons thin unequally-oblong; radicle superior 

 conical uncinate acoumbent. — A glabrous shrub ; leaves altei;nate 

 petiolate, 3-foliolate ; folioles serrate ; flowers ® in compound 

 " paniculate " terminal racemes. {South Africa, MexicoJ) 



27 ? Faguetia Maech.^ — Flowers dioecious regular, usually 4- 

 merous ; lobes of gamophyllous calyx imbricated. Petals imbricated. 

 Stamens equal in number to petals, shorter alternate ; filaments free 

 subulate inserted below slightly perigynous crenulate disk incurved 

 at apex ; anthers introrse, 2-rimose. Germen rudimentary in male 

 flower, free, strictly surrounded by base of disk, 1-locular; style 

 very short, 2-3-stigmatiferous, lobed at apex. Ovule 1, laterally 

 ascendent, suspended from summit of funicle; micropyle introrse 

 superior obturated. Fruit long samaroid" lanceolate sub- falcate, 

 compressed, acute at apex, at base attenuate in long wing ; cell 

 sub-apiculate, 1-spermous ; testa of descendent (immature) seed 

 membraneous ; cotyledons of exalbuminous embryo. 



1 Small. Anacard. 83, 178. 



2 Eepresenting a sutfasoiate monstrous horn. <> Stripes resinous longitudinal Mack. 

 ' Spec. 1. S. laiirinum W. loo. eit. — Hakt. 6 Small, cro'wded. 



et SoND. Fl. Cap. i. 524 — Laurophyttm capm- 7 Spec. 3. H. Bn. in Adanaonia, xi. 182. 



sis Thunb. — Dap/mitis capmsia Spkeng. loo. Walp. Ann. vii. 646. 



i^it. 8 Anaeard. 84, 176, t. 2. 



* In exs. Brig, (ex Harv. et Sond. M. Gap. ° Recalls Samara of the Fraxineen. 

 i. 523).— B. H. Gen. 423, n, 17,— Mabch, 



