TEREBINTHAOE^. 341 



lobes of calyx (?) 4-5-merous connate at base, imbricated. Corolla 

 gamopetalous suboampanulate, inserted slightly higber than calyx (at 

 summit of sbort internode) ; lobes imbricate, finally -patent. Sta- 

 mens 4, 5, alternipetalous, inserted at base of corolla; filaments 

 short; anthers introrse 2-rimose. Germen free, 1-locular ; ovule 1, 

 descendent ; mycropyle introrse superior ; style excentric inserted 

 slightly below the rather prominent apex of germen, subcapitate stig- 

 matiferous at apex. Fruit oboval-oblong, emarginate at apex, inde- 

 hiscent, longitudinally 2 -winged; wings marginal transversely strio- 

 late nitid ; nucleus linear. Seed subpendulous linear-elongate sul- 

 cate ; coat very thin ; embryo verysmall conical inverted within apex of 

 very densely fleshy-granular albumen. — An herb, sometimes suffiru- 

 tescent at base, volubile glabrous; juice milky; leaves alternate, 

 petiolate wide cordate, entire or lobed, membranous, digiti- or pedati- 

 nerved at base ; flowers ^ in furcate cymiferous axillary racemes, 2- 

 chotomous or paniculate, secund, sessile ebracteate, articulate at eon- 

 cave base by a small process of branch. {Trop, Asia-^ Indian Arch?) 



in Benn. PI. Jm. Bar. 246, t. 49. — Endl. Gen. n. * Spec. 1 (according to various authors 4, 5), 



3888^ — B. H. Gen. 355, u. 36. — H. Bn. Adan- SoU. C. Sumphii H. Bn. Adamonia. x. 280. 



aonia, x. 279 ; Prodr. 25. — Peripterygium Hassk. which is Olus sanguinis Eumph. Serb. Amboin. v. 



Cat. Sort. Bog. 234. — H. Bk. Euphorb. €68.-;- 482, t. 180. — Bioscorea sativa L. Ammn. iv. 133. 



Sioja Ham. (ex Lindl. loc. eit.). — W. Sp. iv. 895. — Cardiopterys molwccana Bi. 



' Small, white. Rumphia iii. 207, t. 177. — G. lobata E. Br. loc. 



2 A geaua of douhtfol place, perhaps on ac- cit. ; in Cat. Wall. n. 8033. — C. suhamata Wall. 



count of its hermaphrodite flowers, with appa- — Sioja sanguinaria Hau. — Peripterygium quin- 



rently a true calyx, better referred to Mappia. qttelobum Hassk. 



