404 NATURAL HISTORY OP PLANTS. 



Stamens 8, interior to annular disk ; filaments in male flower elon- 

 gated ; anthers extrorse, 2-rimose. Gynseceum of SchleicJiera 2-3- 

 merous. Drupe subfleshy or dry; putamen crustaceous ; cells 1, 2, 

 1-spermons. Seed suberect, outwardly pulpy ; cotyledons of 

 straight embryo thick. — Trees ; leaves alternate paripinnate ; folioles 

 opposite sessile, 2-3-jugate ; flowers in slender elongated simple or 

 ramified clusters.^ ( Central America?) 



25. Huertea E. and Pav.^ — Flowers polygamous (nearly of 

 Melicocca or Schleichera) ; receptacle rather concave. Sepals 5, 6, 

 and petals same in number alternate, imbricate. Stamens equal 

 in number to alternate petals, slightly perigynous with perianth ; 

 filaments free alternating with as many small glands of disk ; 

 anthers introrse, 2-rimose. Germen free except at base ; cells 2, incom- 

 plete from vanishing septum ; ovule in each ascendent from inner 

 angle ; mioropyle extrorsely inferior ; style erect, acutely 2-fid stig- 

 matiferous at apex. Fruit subdrupaceous, 1-spermous ; seed...? — A 

 tree ; wood falvescent ; leaves alternate im paripinnate ; folioles 

 oblong-acute serrulate, at base sometimes unequally 2-glandular ; 

 flowers in axUlary and terminal much compound ramified racemes.* 

 {Peru and Cuha?) 



26. Alectryon G^etn.^ — Flowers polygamo-dioecious apeta- 

 lous ; calyx lobes 4, 5, villous within, imbricated. Stamens 5-8 (in 

 female flower effete or 0) ; filaments inserted between lobes of thick 

 disk encircling them at base ; anthers introrse, 2-runose. Germen 

 (rudimentary or in male flower) 1-locular, unequally-obcordate, 

 produced above sometimes to dorsal wing, sometimes to a small style, 

 stigmatiferous at simple or shortly 2-3-lobed apex ; ovule in cell 1, 

 subbasilar ascendent ; micropyle extrorsely inferior. Fruit turgid, 

 woody or crustaceous, indehiscent or subtransversely unequally- 

 broken ; testa of ascendent subglobose seed crustaceous nitid, sur- 



1 A genus very nearly allied to Schleichera. aUed to the preceding, differing in the septum 



^ Spec, ahout 2, Jaoq. Amer. t. 72 {Meli- of the germen being incomplete. 



coccus).— U. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Spec. v. 150.— 5 gpeo-. 1. s. glmdulosa R. et Pat. loe. cit— 



Tr. et Pl. Ann. Sc. Nat. 8&. 4, xviii. 377.— S. Cubensis Griseb. Cat. Fl. Cub. 66. 



aRisEB. Fl. Brit. W.-Ind. 127. 8 Fruct. i. 216, t. 46.— Poir. Diet. Suppl. i. 



» Frodr. 34, t. 6 ; Fl. Per. iii. 5, t. 227, fig. a. 288.— DC. Frodr. i. 617.— Cawbess. Mgm. Mm. 



—DC. Frodr. u. 90.-Eniil. Qen. n. 1134.— xviii. 37.— Endl. Gen. n. 6627.— B. H. Gen. 



B. H. Gen. 428, n. 44.— March. Anacard. 195. 410, n. 66.— H. Bn. Pm/er. Fam. Nat. 319.— 



•> A genus hitherto douhtfully reckoned Alectryon A. Cunn. Ann. Nat. Hist. iii. 318. 

 among the Terebinthacea (trib. Spondias) nearly 



