SAPINBAOHM 405 



rounded at base by very fleshy thick turgid^ (red) unequally-rugose 

 aril ; cotyledons of exalbuminous curved embryo extremely spirally 

 convolute ; radicle inferior. — A lofty tree ; leaves alternate impari- 

 pionate ; folioles entire or denticulate, pubescent beneath ; flowers in 

 axillary and termiaal ramifled compound cymiferous racemes. (New 

 Zealand.^) 



27 ? Eriandrostachys H. Bn. — Flowers dioecious ; male calyx 

 5-6-partite ; folioles • regularly arranged, very unequal and dis- 

 similar from each other ; the 2, 3, exterior shorter thick villose (like 

 the sepals) ; the interior much larger wide petaloid ; ^ all extremely 

 imbricated. Stamens 8, interior to regular 5-crenate disk ; fila- . 

 ments inserted below small central rudiment of gyneeceum, iq bud 

 corrugate-plicate, finally exserted ; anthers ovoid introrse, 2-rimose. 

 Female flower . . . ? — A tall small shrub ; stems numerous ; wood very 

 hard ; nearly all parts ferruginose-villose ; leaves alternate pari- 

 pinnate; folioles opposite, very short petiolulate, 6-10-jugate, 

 unequally-lanceolate ; flowers in axillary simple or scantUy fascicu- 

 late rigid spikes subequal to leaves ; the male in axils of short bracts 

 glomerulate small.^ (Madagascar,^) 



28. Thouinia Poit.'' — Flowers dioecious or polygamous regular ; 

 sepals 4, 5, free or conaate at base, greatly or slightly imbricated. 

 Petals 4, 6, alternate, sometimes minute (l%mowm '''), entire or 2-lobed, 

 furnished with villulose scales or 0. Stamens 8-10, interior to 

 crenate or lobed annular disk ; filaments free, oftener pilose ; anthers 

 introrse, 2-rimose. Germen (rudimentary in male flower) 3-locular ; 

 style erect, subentire or 3 -fid stigmatiferous at apex; ovule in celll, 

 ascendent ; micropyle extrorsely inferior. Fruit S-samarse,^ solute 

 from central, sometimes persistent (Thinouia) axis; testa of exarillate 

 seed membranous ; cotyledons of exalbuminous embryo thick plano- 



' The swelling finally bursting the pericarp ^ Ann. Mus. iii. 70, t. 6, 7 (not Domb. nor 



by dehiscence. Sm. nor Sw.).— Tuep. Diet. 8c. Nat. Atl. t. 171. 



^ Spec. 1. A. exeeUum G^btn. loc. cit. — — DC. Frodr. i. 612..— Endl. Gen. n. 5618. — 



Hook. Icon, t. 570.— Hook. p. Fl. N.-Zel i. 37 ; B. H. Qm. 400, 1000, n. I'i.—Thyma Ham. 



Man. N.-Zeal. Fl. 46. Frodr. Fl. Ind. Oco. 36. — Vjirgasia Bekt. 



3 " Eosy." Sprmg. Syst. ii. 283. — Garpodipterix Kahst. Fl. 



* A genus, ftom the female flower being un- Colmnb. ii. 45, t. 23. 



known, of very doubtful place in the order, 7 Tk. et Pl. Ann. Seienc. Nat. sir. 4, xviii. 



whether allied to Melicoccce (?) ; it differs chiefly 368. A genus at first sight sufiSciently distinct, 



in the spikes being very long and the leaves but better, according to Benth. and Hook, on 



of perianth, although regularly arranged, being account of the slight importance of these cha- 



very unequal and dissimilar. racters, not preserved. 



* Spec. I.E. Ghapellieri H. Bn. Adamonia, xi. ' Resembling those of Acer. 

 239. 



