TEREBINTHAGE^. 339 



oular or uuequal-obovate, entire or emarginate, 3-5-iierved at base. 

 — A high scandent sarmentose shrub ; wood porous ; leaves alternate 

 petiolate entire or dentate, 7-9-nerved at cordate base, acute or acu- 

 minate ; flowers in supra-axillary simple or slightly ramified slender 

 elongated racemes; each 1-bracteate; pedicel bearing below apex 

 a short 4-6-partite membranous open calycule ^ scarcely removed 

 from perianth. [India.'^) 



64. Pyrenacantha Hook.^ — Flowers (nearly of Natsiatum ; 

 dioecious ecalyculate ; leaves of perianth 3-5, partly free, valvate. 

 Stamens same in number alternate (in female flower very small and 

 sterile) inserted under the glabrous or hairy rudiment of the gynse- 

 ceum ; anthers introrse ; connective dorsal glandulose ; cells at base 

 and apex distinct, longitudinally rimose. Germen 1-locular {oi Natsia- 

 tum) ; stigma sub-sessile discoid multiradiate ; ovules collateral ; mioro- 

 pyle introrse superior obturate by hairs springing from funicle. Drupe 

 (nearly of Natsiatum) rather compressed ; putamen outwardly rugu- 

 lose, inwardly spinulesoent-verrucose, 1-spermous ; cotyledons of albu- 

 minous embryo large foliaceous, 3-5-nerved at base. — Scandent 

 shrubs or undershrubs ; branches slender ; leaves alternate petiolate, 

 pilose or rather scabrous, entire, dentate, or lobed, 3-5-nerved at 

 base; flowers in supra-axillary spikes; with 1, 2 superposed 

 gemmules; male long filiform; female spicato-capitate or by abortion 

 1 -flowered, naked at base.* {Trop, and South Africa, India.^) 



65. Chlamydocarya H. Bn.^ — Flowers dioecious; male...?; 

 female 4-merous (nearly of Pyrenacantha ) ; leaves of perianth sub- 

 free or connate at base, reflexed at apex. Staminodes 4, alternate. Ger- 

 men sessile, 1-locular, 2-ovulate; style short thick tubular afterwards 

 cut in 00 linear erect stigmatiferous lobes. Drupe unequally com- 

 pressed, adnate to middle with cupuliform accrescent receptacle, 

 otherwise free and enclosed within and crowned with persistent peri- 



1 "Calycem" (Auctt.). Syst. i. 373 (not Sohott). — Sardum Soland. 



2 Spec. 1 ? iV. herpeticum Ham. loc. cit. —Mio.. MSS. (ex H. Bn. Prodr.). 



Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. i. 797 {Nansiatian). — Walp. ■* A genus very near Natsiatwn, scarcely dif- 



Itep. i. 98. — iSyeios pentandnts Wall, Cat. fering excepting in its ecalyculate flowers, and 



' Bot. Misc. ii. 107, t. Suppl, 10 ; Niger, 15. perhaps better referred to a section of that 



— ^Endl. Q-en. n. 1893. — Tul, Ann. So. Nat. ser. genus. (H. Bn. Prodr. loc. cit.) 



3,. XV. 251 (JPyrenacanthvts). — 'B..]^^. Bull. Soe. * gpec. about 6. Hahv. Thes. Gap. i.l%,t,iZ. 



Bot. de Pr. iv. 991; Et. 6gn. Euphorb. 662; — Sond. imMfEajXxiii. 107. — B.'&s.Adansonia, 



Prodr. W. — Adelmthus Endl. Gm. n. 6839; x. 270. 



Suppl. ii. 31. — H. Bn. Euphorb. 662. — Cavanilla ^ Adansonia, x, 276 ; Prodr. 20. > 

 .Thunb. Prodr. 31. — Moldenhaufra Spreng, 



