TEREBINTHAOE^. 337 



sometimes scantily fleshy, high, produced above the putamen. Seed 

 subpendulous ; coat thin subpulpy ; albumen fleshy corruga.te-mul- 

 tUobed, granulate outside ; radicle of embryo, scarcely shorter than 

 the albumen, short conical superior; cotyledons foliaceous large, 

 rather flat or much sigmoid-contortuplicate, digitinerved at base. 

 High-climbing volubile shrubs often villous or hispid ; wood porous 

 filled with water; branches often aculeate; leaves alternate petio- 

 late, entire, sinuate or palmatilobed, 3-7 -nerved at base, usually 

 reticulate veined ; flowers capitate small ; each involucrate with 

 cupular epicalyx at base, outwardly densely villous or rather hispid, 

 often straight truncate at apex, outwardly 2-5-lobed or more rarely 

 6-10-lobed (" calyx") ; capitules axillary, the supra-axillary or lateral 

 springing from the wood ; the female solitary larger pedunculate ; 

 the crowded globose or ovoid male densely packed in much ramified 

 elongated racemes ; secondary twigs each few-flowered or oftener 

 oo-flowered, sometimes produced beyond the flowers to a sterile brac- 

 tiform point. {Trop. Asia and Oceania.) See p. 282. 



61. Miquelia Meissn.^ — Flowers dioecious ; leaves of male peri- 

 anth 4, 6, sometimes coherent in bud, valvate. Stamens 4, 5, alter- 

 nate ; fllaments short inserted round rudiment of gynaeceum ; anthers 

 erect introrse ; cells 2, discrete at base, rimose. Female perianth 

 thicker ; leaves 4, 5, valvate. Staminodes 4, 5, alternate, tongue- 

 shaped, very short. Germen sessile ; style short or subnil, soon 

 dilated into a concave or thick discoid stigmatose cupule ; ovules 2 

 {Fhytocrenes) ; the second often abortive. Drupe oblong compressed, 

 surrounded at base by perianth; mesocarp scanty; putamen crustace- 

 ous, outwardly and often inwardly rugose or verrucose ; coat of de- 

 scendent seed thin ; albumen fleshy outwardly rugulose ; radicle of 

 embryo nearly equal to albumen short superior; cotyledons elliptical or 

 ovate flat rather thickly foliaceous, digitinerved at base. — High scan- 

 deut volubile shrubs ; wood porous ; leaves alternate membranous, 

 entire or dentate, digitinerved at base ; flowers umbellate ; peduncle 

 with 1,2 superposed supra-axillary buds, 1-cephalous, fasciculate or 



1 Gen. 152 J Comm. 100. — E. Bk. Benn. PI. — Jenkinaia Gripj?. Gale. Journ, iv. 231, t. 12; 



Jan. Mar. 24^. — Endl. &e«. n. 4664.— Bl. iJ«m- Notvl. 370, t. 587. — Lindl. Veg. King. 531 



phia, iv. 37.— B. H. Gen. 354, u. 32.— H. Bn. {Thymelaceee). 

 Admsonia, x. 262, 768 ; in DC. FroOr. xvii. 13. 



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