TEREBINTHAGE^. 329 



otlierwise inserted on the brandies of tlie axillary or lateral raceme. 

 Trop. America}). 



44. Emmotum Desvx.^ — Flowers nearly oi Poraqueiba {or Mappia), 

 usually 5-merous ; perianth and stamens of Poraqueiba; connective of 

 erect lanceolate anthers rather wide. Germen 3-locular; cells 1- 

 lateral subparallel; ovules descendant (of Mappia), 2 in each cell 

 or in the middle cell 2, in the lateral 1 ; style short or rather long 

 stigmatiferous at apex truncate or dilated. Drupe usually subglobose ; 

 putamen osseous, 1-3-locular ; seed (in each cell usually 1) albumi- 

 nous ; cotyledons of curved embryo foliaceous rather short ; radicle 

 longer. — Glabrous or oftener tomentellose or silky or shining trees ; 

 leaves alternate entire coriaceous penninerved elevate-nerved ; 

 flowers collected in cymes or densely ramified contracted glomerules 

 axillary or lateral to axils. (Trop. America.^) 



45. Lasianthera Pal. Bba.uv.* — Flowers hermaphrodite or 

 polygamous (nearly -of Mappia); calyx short cupular; shortly 5- 

 lobed or dentate, imbricated. Petals 5 , valvate. Stamens 5, 

 alternipetalous ; filaments hypogynous, more or less cohering with 

 petals, attenuate at apex, or oftener the apex introrsely excavate 

 and receiving more or less pendulous anther cells, either glabrous or 

 shortly pUose ( Gomphandra) ^ or very long peneillate ; hairs 

 crowded long and often capitellate, in estivation inflexed above 

 anther (Eulasiantkera) ; cells of introrse anthers longitudinally 

 rimose, either nearly quite adnate within to connective or free below. 

 Germen free 1-locular, naked at base or sometimes furnished with 

 a large basilar gland ; style apical short, afterwards stigmatiferous 

 dilated sometimes wide discoidal; ovules collateral 2, {oi Mappia). 

 Drupe oblong or compressed, longitudiaally sulcate and nerved, 

 straight or incurved ; flesh usually scanty ; putamen crustaceous 

 ligneous or fibrous ; albumen of desoendent seed fleshy, undivided or 2- 

 partite ; ® embyro apical minute. — Trees, often glabrous ; leaves alter- 



1 Spec. 2, 3. Spkeng. Syst. i. 583 (Barreria). i. 636.— Endl. Gen. n. 4671.— B. H. Oen. 350, 

 Walp. Attn. vii. 568. n. 16. — H. Bn. Adansonia, xi. 191. — Stemonurus 



2 Ham. Prodr. Fl. Ind. Oco. 29. — Mieks Bl. ^j)'*-. 64 8.— Endl. (?^«. n. 5496.— Miehs, 

 Ann. Nat. Mist. ser. 3, iv. 366", Contrib. i. 106, Contrib. i. 80, t. lS-15. — Urandra Thw. Soalc. 

 229, t. 21, 22.— B. H. (?en. 352, n. 25. — H. Bn. Kew Journ. yii. 211. — Medusanthera Seem. 

 Adcmsonia, ii. t. 9, fig. 8, 4 ; iii. 94, 380. — Jowm. of Bot. ii. 74. 



Fogopetalmn Benth. Trans. Linn. Soc, XTiii. ^ Wall. ex. Lindl. JVoii. Syst. ed. 2, 439. — 



684, 42 . . EnbIi. Gen. n. 5497.— B. H. Gen. n. 17. 



' Spec, about 5. Walp. Ann. vii. 568. « Whence simulating 2 wide cotyledons. 



■* Fl. Owar. et Ben. i. 85, t. 51. — DO. Prodr, 



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