410 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



bricated or subvalvate. Petals 5, alternate, esquamate, imbricate. Disk 

 orbicular- ciipular, interior to perianth, radiately-6-snlcate within. 

 Stamens 5, alternipetalous, interior to disk; filaments inserted 

 below gynsecenm, lodged at base in grooves of disk ; anthers introrse, 

 2-rimose. German (rudimentary in male flower) 2-locular; style 

 short curved ; apex laterally stigmatiferous, subentire or sub-2- 

 lobed; ovule in cell 1, descendent or transverse, sometimes sub- 

 ascendent. Drupe ; putamen thin, 1-2-spermous ; testa of oblong 

 seed, membranous ; cotyledons of exalbuminous curved embryo 

 plicate-foliaceous ; radicle ascendent. — A tree ; twigs angular ; 

 leaves ^ alternate imparipinnate ; rachis winged ; folioles subopposite 

 (5-8 -jugate), articulate at base, crenate; flowers^ in large ramified 

 cymiferous racemes. {East Ind.^) 



38. Ganophyllum Bl.* — Flowers polygamo-dicecious apetalous 

 (nearly of MUcium) ; male calyx small cupular, 5-fid, valvate. Stamens 

 5-7, inserted between puberulose lobes of hypogynous disk ; fila- 

 ments free exserted ; anthers oblong introrse. Germen rudimentary 

 central. Female flower...? — A tree;^ twigs angular .and leaves 

 alternate imparipinnate, lepidote with waxlike scales ; folioles 8-jugate 

 falcate entire coriaceous ; flowers ® in compound-ramified axillary 

 racemes. {Philippine Is. N.-Chiinea, Australia \T\P) 



39. Dodonsea L.^ — Flowers dioecious or polygamous apetalous ; 

 sepals 2-5, sometimes minute, imbricated or valvate. Stamens 4-8 

 (or more rarely 9-1 2), central (rudimentary or in female flower), in- 

 serted in non- or slightly-glandular receptacle ; filaments free usually 

 short ; anthers introrse oblong, sub-i-agonal, 2-riQiose. Germen (in 

 male flower rudimentary or 0) surrounded at base by small disk 

 enclosing the stamens when present outside or between the lobes. 



' The younger ones with twigs and peduncle known to us, F. Muell. {Fragm. vii. 24) is 



often coyered with waxlike scales. Burseraeea, partly the same, as regards the fruit, 



2 Small, white. as Ewoschin'us falcatm Benth. Fl. Austral. 



1. F. deetpiens Thw. loc. eit. — Pterida- i. 490. The genus remains very doubtful. 



phyllum deetpiens Thw. — Shus deetpiens Wight ^ gtj„ ^ §55 (qq^ Plum.). — Adaks. Fam. des 



& Akn. Frodr. i. 172.— Wight, III. t. 75. PI. ii. 342.— J. Gen. 375.— Lamk. J)ict. ii. 292 ; 



* Mus. Zugd.-Bat. i. 320.— B. H. Gen. 326, Suppl. ii. 494; III. t. 304.— DO. Prodr. i. 610. 



n. 12. — Mabch. Adansonia, viii. 37, 68 {Burse- — Cambess. in M4m. Mus. xyiii. 35.— 8pach, 



raceie.) Suit, a Buffon, iii. 68. — Endl. Qen. n. 5626. — 



' " Balsamifera." A. Gray, Oen. 111. t. 182.— B. H. Ben. 410, n. 



» Small, greenish, ehracteate. 63.— H. Bn. Payer. Fam. Nat. 319. — Bakek, 



7 Spec. 1, 2. Mia. Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. ii. 655. Fl.Maurit. 60.—JSmpleurosmaBAS.Th. PI. Preiss. 



Gf. falcatum, from the description most recently ii. 228. 



