MELIAOEM. 497 



extrorsely superior.— Fruit various in form, capsular coriaceous or 

 sub-fleshy, loculicidally 2-3-valvate, very rarely 4-5-valvate ; cells 

 1, 2-spermous. Seeds desoendent ; furuislied with or enclosed in a 

 more or less evolute aril ; testa coriaceous ; cotyledons of exalbumi- 

 nous embryo fleshy thick ; radicle superior short. — Trees or shrubs ; 

 leaves alternate iraparipinnate or more rarely 1-3-foliolate ; leaflets 

 opposite or alternate ; flowers in axillary or terminal more or less 

 rainosely compound cymiferous racemes. {Tropical America, tropical 

 and southern Africa.) See p. 474. 



8. Owenia P. Muell.^ — Flowers nearly of Trichilia ; sepals 5 

 and petals same in number alternate longer open-recurved much 

 imbricated. Stamens 1 ; anthers exserted, inserted at top of cam- 

 panulate tube and surrounded by an exterior lO-c» -fid crown. 

 Germen free, surrounded by an annular disk more or less thick 

 (or 0); cells 3, or more rarely 10-12; cells 1-ovular; micropyle 

 extrorsely superior ; style straight, much dilated to stigmatose apex 

 thick conical and more or less lobed at summit. Fruit drupaceous 

 globose; flesh thick or scanty; putamen 3- or more rarely 6-12- 

 locular. Seeds in cells solitary oblong, spongy without (arUlate ?) ; 

 hUum ventral ; cotyledons of exalbuminous embryo plano-convex ; 

 radicle retracted superior. — Glabrous trees, sometimes gum-bearing 

 (?) ; leaves alternate pinnate ; leaflets sub-opposite oo ; flowers in 

 ramose axillary racemes, often 2-nate in axil of bracts; each 

 2-bracteolate. {Tropical Jmtralia.^) 



9. He3riiea Roxb.^ — Flowers hermaphrodite ; calyx short imbri- 

 cate, 4-5-fld. Petals 4, 5, longer, imbricate or sometimes sub- 

 valvate (Survala).* Stamens 8-10; filaments 1-adelphous at or 

 below the base, free above and there entire or 2-fid ; anthers sessile 

 between the legs orat topof inappendiculate filament, 2-rimose. Germen 

 oftener depressed, surrounded by or half-immersed in annular more 

 or less fleshy disk ; cells 2, 3 ; ovules in cells 2, descendent ; style 

 erect, apex stigmatose dilato-turbinate or sub-elevate 2-3-dentate 

 and a little below surrounded by a thickened ring. Fruit fleshy, 

 indehiscent (Walsura^) or sometimes capsularUy dehiscent (Uu- 



^ Sook. Kew Jomm. ix. 303. — B. H. Oen. (1819). — A. Juss. Mdiac. 82, t. 7.— Spach, 



337, 994, n. 28. Suit. & Suffon, iii. 192.— Endl. Geii. n. 5540. - 



= Spec. 5. F. MuELL. Fragm. iii. IS.^Bbnth. B. B. Gen. 336, n. 23. 



Fl. Austral, i. 384 (part.). — Walp. Ann. vii. * KtEM. Synopa. 108. 



659 [0. eerasifera eat, fid. F. Mdbll. {Fragm. v. = Eoxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 386 (1824).- "Wisht and 



m),Spondias pUiogyna {j^.2aS)']. Abn. Prodr. i. 120. — Endl. Gen. n. 5539.— 



^Bot. Mag. t. 1738; PL Coromand. Mi. 230 B. H. Gen. 336, n. 22. 



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