322 NATVBAL EISTOBY OF PLANTS. 



in axillary and terminal more or less ramified compound racemes ; 

 pedicels 2-4-bracteate {Styphonia ^), or sometimes ( Coiinus ^), partly 

 abortiye plumose-hirsute. (All warm and temperate reffions.^) 



30 ? Comocladia P. Br.* — Flowers (nearly of Ehus) hermaphro- 

 , dite or polygamous, 3 or more rarely 4-merous ; sepals * and petals 

 alternate, imbricate. Stamens equal in number to petals and alternate, 

 inserted below intervals of central disk lobes; anthers introrse. 

 Germen sessile; styles 3, very short, dilated, stigmatiferous at apex; 

 ovule suspended from basilar funicle. Fruit drupaceous oliviform ; 

 testa of oblong seed thin ; cotyledons of exalbuminous embryo fleshy, 

 plano-convex ; radicle superior accumbent. — Trees with abundant 

 juice ; ^ leaves alternate, imparipinnate ; folioles opposite often coria- 

 ceous -or spinose dentate; flower''' in axillary compound racemes, 

 sometimes subsimple. (Tropical America.^) 



31. Pistacia L.^ — Flowers dioecious apetalous, male calyx small, 

 imbricated, 5 -partite or 5-fld; leaves bractiform. Stamens usually 

 5, inserted round small annular disk ; filaments free short ; anthers 

 2-rimose." Germen rudimentary minute or 0. Female calyx 3-5- 

 fld or partite, imbricated. Germen 1-locular;^^ style erect, after- 

 wards divided in 3 unequal or equal branches recurved or revolute, 

 stigmatiferous within ; ovule ascendent, suspended from subbasilar 

 fanicle; micropyle introrse superior, obturated with more or less dilated 



Fl. Cap. 194 (not Med. nor Radd. nor Zea, Gen. n. 5896.— B. H. Gen. 419, n. 2.— Makch. 



nor Teatt.). — Ozoroa Dei. in Ann. So. Nat. Anaeard. 90, 183. — Dodonaa Plum. Amer. (ed. 



ser. 2, XX. 91, t. 1. — Anaphrmima E. Mey. in Burm.), 18 (nee L.). 



Exs. Dreg. — ^Walp. JRep. v. 414 ; Ann. ii. 283. * Often subpetaloid. 



' Ntjtt. in Torr. et Gr. Fl. N.-Amer, i. 220 — ^ Glutinous, nigrescent, sometimes very pun- 



Walp. i. 555. gent. 



2 T. Inst. 610, t. 380. 7 Small greenisli or purplish. 



' Spec, about 110. H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Spec. * Spec, about 4. Jacq. Amei: 12, t. 173, fig. 



t."603, 604.— Wight et Awr. Prodr. i. 172.— A. 4.— H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Speo. vii. 15, t. 607. 



GrEAT, Gen. III. t. 169, 160.— Haet. et Sond. — Gkiseb. Fl. Brit. W.-Ind. 176. 



Fl. Cap. i. 504.— Benth. J";. S"o»(^;j;. 69; II. "> Gen. n. 1108.— Adans. Fam. des. Fl. ii. 



Austral, i. 488.— Geiseb. .FZ. .Bni. W.-Ind. 176. 342.— K. in ^«»!. Sc. Nat. six. 1, ii. 329.— DC. 



— Te. et Pl. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 6, xiv. 288. Prodr. ii. 64.— Spaoh, Suit a Buffon, ii. 195. 



— Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. 436. — Schweinp. Endl. Gen. n. 589S.— B. H. Gen. 419, n. 3.— 



Beitr. Fl. ^thiop. 32 {Anaphrenium), 33. — Makoh. Anaeard. 98, 132, 186, t. 1, 3. — Terebin- 



ToER. in Bmor. Rep. Bot. t. 7.— Geen. et Gode. thiis T. Inst. 679, t. 346.— J. Qen. 371.— iw- 



Fl. de Fr. i. 340.— Walp. Hep. i. 551 ; ii. 829 ; tiscus T. op. HI. 580. 



T. 414 ; Ann. i. 199, 967 ; ii. 282 ; iv. 447 ; vii. '» Pollen spherical. « Sur I'equateur, qnatre 



6il. papilles entourees d'un halo (P. Terebinthus) ; 



* Jam. 124.— J. Gm. 370.— Lamk, iJjrf. ii. huit Jldouze pores irr^gul.^pars (P. ie««isc!«)." 



69 ; Suppl. H. 325 ; III. t. 17.— K. in Ann. Sc. (H. Mohl, in Ann. Sc. Nat. b&. 2, iii. 340.) 



Nat. ser. l,ii. 341.— DC. Prodr. ii. 65.— Endl. " Cells sometimes 1, 2, effete. 



