503 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



campanulate or urceolate (coroUiform) staminal tube. Germen 

 depressed ; cells 2-5, 1-2-ovulate ; style elongate conical, 3-4-gonal 

 or very short and afterwards very disooidally dilated. Fruit capsular 

 coriaceous, loculicidally 3-4-valvate; valves septiferous iu middle; 

 seeds arillate ; ' cotyledons of flesliy embryo often thick confeiTumi- 

 nate; radicle short superior. — Trees; innovations sometimes lepi- 

 dote ; leaves imparipinnate ; flowers axillary ; male compound race- 

 mose ; female ^ simply or sparsely ramose, racemose or spicate.^ 

 (^Tropical and subtropical Asia and Oceania.^) 



20. Epicharis Bl.^ — Flowers (nearly of Guarea) oftener 4-5- 

 merous; calyx cupular subentire, dentate or flssus, sometimes lobate 

 or partite, valvate (Euepicharis) or oftener imbricate {Dysoxylum.^') 

 Petals free or sometimes at base iuwardly connate with each other 

 or oftener with staminal tube or coherent {Hartighsea^') valvate or 

 more or less imbricate. Stamens 8-10 ; anthers enclosed in top of 

 subentire or oftener crenate, dentate or sometimes lobate tube, 2- 

 rimose. Disk tubular, oftener thick, subentire, crenate or dgntate 

 sheathing the germen and base of style. Germen 2-5-locular ; cells 

 1-2-ovulate; style erect; apex stigmatose variously dilated oftener 

 discoid or depressed polygonal. Fruit subglobular or ovoid or piri- 

 form, woody or coriaceous or partly fleshy, indehiscent or capsular, 

 loculicidally 2-5-valvate; seeds more or less fully arillate; coty- 

 ledons of exalbuminous fleshy embryo thick plano-convex, collateral 

 or superposed ; radicle short superior or ventral. — Glabrous or more 

 rarely pubescent trees ;^ leaves pari- or impari-puinate alternate, 

 often collected at top of twigs ; leaflets opposite or alternate, oftener 

 petiolulate ; flowers ^ in simple or more or less ramose cymiferous 

 racemes or spikes, axillary or lateral, sometimes springing from 



mvcii Bl. BijAr. 165.— A. Jusb. Meliac. 71, t. 3. ' MJdr. 166.— A. Jnss. Meliae. 76, t. 4.— 



— Sphcerosacme Wall. Cat. (part.). — Nimmoia Endl. Gen. n. 5533. — B. H. Qen. 333, n. 11 



Wight, Calc. Journ. of Nat. Mist. vii. 13. — ? (ind. : Cambania Eoem. Bidynweheton Bl. Dy- 



Monotoma G-biff. Notul. iv. 502. — Oraoma TuBCZ. soxylum Bl. Qonioeheton Bl. Hartighsea A. JuBS. 



in Still. Mosc. (1858), i. 411, Prasoxylon Ecbm.). 



1 Aril red. « Bl. Sijdr. 172.— Spach, Suit. & Buffon, iii. 



' Larger. 186. — A. Jusa. Meliae. 76, t. 4.— Ekdl. Gen. u, 



» A genuB distinguished from Aglaia (of 5529. — B. H. Gen. 332, n. 1. — Didymoeheton Bl. 



■whioh, -with Lansium, perhaps it is merely a foc.cii.177. — GoniochetonBi,. loc. eit. — Prasoxylon 



section) hy the number of its parts and the de- Ecem. Synops. 83. 



hisceuce of its fruit. 7 A. Jess. Meliae. 75, t. 4.— Spach, Suit, a 



* Spec. 8-10. WiGHTaudAES. JVof?/-. i. 119. Buffon, in. 188.— Endl. ©««. n. 6532.— Kuiiz. 



— Thw. Enum. PI. Zeijl. 60.— Benth. Fl. Aus- Flora (1870), SiO. — Cambania E(em. loe. cit. 83. 



tral.i. 383.— MiQ. Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. ii. 535; —Macroehiton Bl. Bijdr. 172. 



Suppl. i. 196. — Walp. Sep. i. 428 ; Ann. vii. ' Odour sometimes fetid, alliaceous. 



556. ' White or more rarely pink. 



