TEBEBINTHACE^. 827 



usually opposite ; flowers in compound-cymiferous racemes terminal 

 or in the axils of the upper leaves. {Trop. South America.) 



40 ? Pentaspadon Hook. Jun.^ — Flowers hermaphrodite (nearly 

 of Holigarna) ; lobes of short calyx slightly imbricated, afterwards 

 not contiguous. Petals imbricated. Stamens 10, inserted round 

 disk, of which 5 alternipetalous are fertile ; anthers introrse ; others 

 oppositipetalous same in number smaller sterile, glandular-capitate 

 at apex. Germen 1, inserted at summit of rather concave receptacle ; 

 style lateral, stigmatiferous at apex ; funicle inserted laterally on 

 wall of germen below style, bearing a suspended ovule at apex. 

 Fruit ? — A tall tree ; leaves alternate imparipinnate ; axillary in- 

 florescence and other characters of Holigarna, Sorindeia or Drimy- 

 carpus^. (^Borneo and Sumatra.'^) 



41? Corynocarpus FoEST.^ — Flowers hermaphrodite; sepals 5, 

 unequal, connate at base, imbricated. Petals 5, alternate longer, im- 

 bricated. Stamens 5, fertile opposite petals and adnate to them at base ; 

 filaments otherwise free ; anthers introrse 2-rimose, Staminodes (?) 5, 

 alternipetalous glanduliform. Germen free, 1-locular ; style subapical, 

 capitellate stigmatiferous at apex; ovule 1, descendent, inserted below 

 apex ; micropyle superior, ventral below insertion ; raphe dorsal. Fruit 

 drupaceous ; putamen thin coriaceous fibrous ; cell of seed strictly 

 filled ; testa membranous, veined ; cotyledons of thick embryo plano- 

 convex ; radicle short superior. — Glabrous small trees ; leaves 

 alternate simple integerrimous penninerved; flowers in terminal 

 ramified cymiferous racemes.® {New Zealand.'') 



1 Spec, about 4. March, loc. cit. 162. — Walp. * Qhm: Gen. 31, 1. 16.— L. pil. Sttppl. 156. — 

 Ann. iv. 448. J. Qen. 288.— Lamk. Diet. i. 107 ; 111. t. 143.— 



2 Trans. Linn. Soc. xxiii. 168, t. 24 (1860). A. Cunn. in Ann. Nat. Rist. iv. 260. — Endl. 

 — B. H. ©«M. 419, n. 5.—Nothoprotium MiQ. 6?«». d. 4232 1.— B. H. G=m.425,n.32.— Maech. 

 Fl. Ind.-Sat. Suppl. i. 527 (1861). — B. H. Gen. Anaeard. 59, 167. — H. Bn. in Adansonia, x. 



326, n. 13 {Burserea). — Makch. Atiacard. 92, 264 ; xi. 203. — Merretia Soland. MSS. (ex 



185. Endl.). 



^ A genus hence allied to the preceding, ° A genus anomalous in order, formerly 



whence Tapirira, from a section of which reckoned among the Berheridaceee, Ardisiece, 



Odina differs only by carpel, hence closely con- and Myrsinem. 



necting the Anaeardiece with Spondias. ' Spec, perhaps 2, one South Caledonian, the 



^ Spec. 1. P. Motleyi Hook. r. loe. cit. — other C. lisvigatua Pokst. — Hook. p. Fl. Nm. 



Nothoprotium sumatranmn Mia. loe. cit. ; Ann, Zel. i. 48 ; Bandb, N.-Zeal. Fl. 46. — Bot. Mag. 



Mm. lugd.-Bat. iii. 90. t. 4379. 



