412 NATURAL HISTORY OP PLANTS. 



tudinally rimose; connective dorsal thick shortly subconioal sub- 

 basiflxed. Sepals of female flowers 4, 5, free or subfree. Disk 

 small 3-4-lobed. Germen elongate 2-3-locular ; empty cells 1-3 ; the 

 other 2-ovulate ; ovules 2, inserted at base of septa (sometimes incom- 

 plete) ascendent ; micropyle extrorsely inferior ; styles 2, 3, unequal 

 subulate recurved everywhere stigmatiferous. Fruit capsular much 

 compressed subsamaroid elongated-2-3-wiQged, oblong elliptical or 

 lanceolate ; seeds Compressed ; cotyledons of exalbuminous embryo 

 oblong rather flat; radicle short inferior, — Glabrous or incano- 

 pubescent (bitter) shrubs ; leaves alternate imparipinnate ; leaflets co, 

 alternate entire, articulate, deciduous ; flowers dense in axillary and 

 terminal elongated racemes.^ (Mexico, Antilles?) 



42 ? Akania Hook f.^ — " Flowers regular hermaphrodite; tube* 

 of calyx hemispherical, lined within with disk ; lobes 5, short, 

 imbricate. Petals 5, inserted in faux, very shortly unguiculate 

 rotundate, imbricate. Stamens 5-9, hypogynous ; filaments short ; 

 anthers linear-elongate. Germen free pubescent narrow-ovoid 

 indistinctly 3-gonal, 3-locular; style short, stigmatose at apex 

 capitellate; ovules in cells 2, superposed, descendent. Fruit...? — 

 A very glabrous tree " ; leaves alternate imparipinnate ; leaflets 

 alternate petiolulate elongate-lanceolate acuminate spinoso-dentate 

 coriaceous clear reticulate; "flowers^ in axillary and externally- 

 winged^ freely branched pubescent panicles."'' (Eastern Australia.^) 



43 ? Llagunoa E. and Pav.^ — Flowers monoecious or polygamous 

 apetalous subirregular ; receptacle widely cupuliform unequal, lined 

 within with a glandulous submembranous and irregular suboblique 

 and crenate disk. Sepals 5, subequaUy 3-angular foliaceous, valvate 

 or slightly imbricate. Stamens 8, interior to disk and inserted under 



' A genus abnormal in the order, in some ' " Pedalea et ultra." 



respects on account of its bitterness approach- ' Belonging to this genus perhaps is (from 



ing the QuassiamiJwiscfiE, in others rej-siwiAawo B. H. Gen. 1000) Apiocarpos Montbooz. Mim. 



with the habit and leaves of the JOeguminoste. Acad. Lyon, x. 190. 



' Spec. 2, 3. Benth. Fl. Kartweg. n. 67 * Spec. 1. A. Hillii Hook. p. — Benih. Fl. 



{Mimos. Gen. Nov.?). — Gbiseb. J"/. £rit. W.- Austral, i. 471. — Cupania lucem I". Muell. 



Ind. 141 ; Cat. PI. Cub. 60,— Walp. Ann. iv. Fraj/m. iii. 44. 



382 ; Tii. 638. 9 Prodr. 126, t. 28.— Cambess. M£m. Mm. 



3 Qen. 409, n. 59. xviii. 34.— Endl. Gen. n. 6624.— B. H. Gen. 



* Receptacle concave ? 409, u. 58.—Amirola Peks. Syn. ii. 666.— DC. 



6 " Mediocribus, longe pedioellatis, ebrao- Prodr. i. ^%.—Orhigwya Berieb. Merc. Chil. 



teatis." 737, ex 0. Gay (not Mart.). 



