M ELI ACE M. 499 



5, subobovate, imbricate. Stamens 5 ; tube short cupular disciform 

 entire ; antbers sessile exserted deltoidly ovate ; connective ovate 

 surmounting tbe marginal (disjoined) cells. Germen short, 1 -looular ; 

 placentse 2, scarcely reaching the middle of the cell; ovules on 

 each placenta 2, collateral ; stigma sessile subglobose, entire or 

 obscurely 2-lobed. Fruit globular indehiscent, l-locular; seeds 

 1, 2, enclosed in a thin aril (?) ovoid ; cotyledons of exalbuminous 

 embryo thick superposed ; radicle minute. — A moderate sized tree ; 

 the younger parts slightly tomentose ; leaves impari- or subpari-pin- 

 nate ; leaflets opposite entire ; flowers ^ in axillary and terminal 

 panicles.^ " {Eastern subtropical Australia?') 



13. Guarea L.* — Calyx 3-6-dentate or partite or fi.d, valvate or 

 imbricate. Petals 3-6, exserted, erect, valvate or more rarely 

 imbricate. {Ruagea.^) Stamens twice as many as the petals ; 

 filaments connate in entire or crenate tube, externally free from 

 corolla or very rarely connate with it ; anthers enclosed introrse.- 

 Germen nude at base or glandulose-stipitate, sometimes swelling 

 more or less into continuous or distinct glandules ; cells 2-5 ; style 

 erect short, apex stigmatose disciform. Ovules in cells 1, 2, 

 descendent ; or one more or less obliquely ascendent. Capsule 

 lignose or coriaceous, smooth, costate or tuberculate, loculicidally 

 2-5- or oftener 4-valvate ; seeds quite covered by aril ; cotyledons 

 of exalbuminous embryo superposed fleshy ; radicle short dorsal. — 

 Trees or shrubs ; ^ leaves pinnate, opposite or alternate ; flowers ^ in 

 axillary subsimple, racemose or compound cymiferous racemes. 

 {Tropical America.^) 



14. Dasycoleum Ttjecz.^ — Flowers nearly of Guarea, narrower ; 

 calyx cupular short subentire or obtusely dentate. Petals 5, 

 coriaceous, subvalvate, finally recurved. Stamens 5 ; " anthers 



' Small. ' Small or rather large, white. 



' A genus in most points very nesti Beddomea, '. Spec, about 30. Vent. Ch. de PI. t. 41. — 



differing in the form of its anthers, and most H. B. K. Nov. Oen. et Spec. v. 217. — A. S. 



distinct in the nature of its ovary. H. PI. Us. Bras. t. 71; Fl. Bkas. Met: ii. 



3 Spec. 1. S. sapindina F. Mueli. t. lOO.'— Griseb. M. Brit. W.-Ind. 130. — 



■* Mantiss. 1305.— J. Oen. 265, 451.— LamK. Turcz. Bull. Mose. (1863), i. 689.— H. Bn. 



Diet. ii. 6 ; Suppl. ii. 820 ; III. t. 301. — DC. Adansonia, x. 110. — Tr. Ann. Se. Nat. sir. 6, xv. 



Prodr. i. 623.— Spach, Suit, a Buffm, iii. 199.— 367 [Ruagea), 368.— Walp. Sep. i. 434 ; ii. 817 ; 



A. Juss. Meliac. 87, t. 8. — Endl. n. 5543. — Ann.yii. 656. 



B. H. Gen. 335, 994, n. 19.—? /Airloa Ten. in ' Bull. Mose. (1858), i. 414.— B. H. Qen. 335, 

 Bueh. Sev. Bot. ii. 127 (ex B. H.). n. 20. 



= Eaest. pi. Columb. ii. 61, t. 120. '" Flowers according to B. H. 10 androus. 

 ' Sometimes odorous. 



