478 NATURAL UlSTORi OF PLANTS. 



or globular sack, supporting six to ten sessile and enclosed anthers. 

 The ovary, destitute of disk, has 3-5 uni-or bi-ovulate cells, and the 

 loculicidal, capsular fruit contains seeds surrounded by a fleshy aril. 

 In another sub-series whose principal genus is Epicharis, the sessile 

 anthers are also enclosed in a long tube near the summit of which 

 they are inserted ; moreover, the disk, taking a large development, 

 forms round the ovary a thick tube not adhering to it. In the species 

 of Epicharis^ all natives of tropical Asia and Oceania, the flowers 

 have a cupuliform calyx, valvate or more or less imbricate, four to 

 seven valvate petals, rarely imbricate, and a diplostemonous andro- 

 ceum, whose tube is free or, more rarely, adherent below to the 

 corolla. The biovulate cells are two to five in number, and the fruit 

 is a loculicidal capsule. Cabralea represents in South America the 

 same floral type, with a pentamerous and imbricate calyx and corolla. 

 The fruit is not known ; the inflorescence occupies the axil of the 

 imparipinnate leaves. Sandoricum^ closely allied to the preceding 

 genera by the imbricate perianth, androceum and disk, is distin- 

 guished by the slight concavity of the receptacle, rendering 

 inferior the base of the ovary and slightly perigynous corolla, as 

 well as by the five deep, erect, and contiguous divisions of the stig- 

 matiferous apex of the style and the fleshy indehiscent fruit. It 

 consists of trees from the Moluccas with trifoliolate leaves. Chisocheton 

 has almost the flower of Epicharis with the tubular and narrow bud 

 of Basycoleum. The poly gamo- dioecious flowers are tetramerous, 

 with 5-8 stamens, and the disk is free, tubular. It consists of trees 

 from tropical Asia and Oceania, whose fruit is capsular, and the 

 leaves compound-pinnate. 



III. SWIETENIA SEKIES. 



The small flowers of Stvietenia ' (fig. 471-476) are hermaphrodite 

 and regular. The convex receptacle bears a short patulous calyx. 



1 L. Qen. n. 575.— J. Gen. 266. — Gr.EKTN. Fam. Nat. 406 — Mahagoni Casteb. Sit. 2 



Fruot. ii. 89, t. 96. — Desrouss. Bict. iii. 678 t. 8, (ex Adans. Fam des PL ii. 343). 



(part.).— DC Prodi: i. 625.— Tuep. Diet. Sc. —Guidoma Adans. loc. cit. (not Pum. O-eii. t. 



Nat. Atl. t. 170.— A. Juss. Meliac. 96, t. 11.— 24).— Cf*-«s Mill. Diet. 2 (not Endl. he. cit.) 



Spach, Suit, ct, Suffon, iii. 163. — Enbl. Gen. n. — Moia Scop. Introd. n. 1014. 

 5549.— B. H. Gen. 338, n. 30.— H. Bn. Prti/er 



