MELIAGE^. 503 



wood of stem, bracteate or ebracteate, articulate. {Tropical and 

 temperate Asia and Oceania}) 



21 ? Cabralea A. Juss.^ — Elowers nearly of Epicharis, 5-merous ; 

 calyx short and petals obtuse mucb longer very imbricate. Stamens 

 10; antbers enclosed at top of tube 10-crenate at mouth, alternating 

 with teeth of tube. Germen surrounded by wide tubular disk and 

 shorter than it; cells 4, 5, 2-ovulate ; style slender erect, apex 

 stigmatose discoid. Fruit . . . ? — Trees or shrubs oftener tomentose ; 

 leaves alternate imparipinnate ; leaflets opposite, unequal at base ; 

 axillary ramose inflorescence of Guarea? {Brasil, Caraccas.'^) 



22. Sandoricum Cav.^ — Flowers nearly of Epicharis, 5-merous ; 

 calyx cupular dentate, adnate at base to bottom of germen,^ valvate 

 or imbricate. Petals 5, connivent in tube, imbricate. Stamens 1 ; 

 anthers enclosed in 1 -dentate tube. Disk tubular, dentate at apex, 

 sheathiug the germen and base of style. Germen not free at base ; 

 cells 5, 2-ovulate ; style erect, thickened to a ring below the apex 

 and above deeply fissured into 5 laoinise stigmatose erect thick, and 

 finally recurved at apex. Fruit baccate globular above, indehiscent,^ 

 cells 3-5, 1-spermous ; septa finally vanishing; seeds enclosed in 

 aril externally pulpy ; testa spongy ; cotyledons of exalbumiaous 

 embryo plano-convex amygdaline lateral. — Glabrous or partly 

 tomentose trees ; leaves alternate, 3-foliolate ; leaflets ample nervoso ; 

 flowers * iu axillary ramose-cymiferous racemes, bracteate. {Northern 

 tropical Oceania.^) 



' Spec, atout 40. Rumph. Serb. Amioin.a, known (perhaps not to be preserved .P), its fruit 



81, t. 20 (Alliaria).—'FoVisn. Prodi: (1786), 33, being unknown, it differs only in the nature of 



n. 189 [TricMlia). — Labill. Sei-t. Caled. t. 64 its disk. 



{TrieMlia).—A Rich. Voy. Astrol. Mot. t. 11 ■< Walp. iJ«p. i. 431 ; v. 374. 



{Sariiffhsea).— Book. Icon. t. 616, 617 {Sar- 6 Diss. vii. 359, t. 202, 203.— Lamk. Sict. iii. 



tiffAsea).—MiQ.Fl.Ind-£at.i.-p.u.5S6{D!/sox!/- 69; III. t. 350.— DC. Frodr. 1. 621.— Spach, 



lirni), 638 [RaHighsea), 639 [Didymoehetm), 640 Suit, d, Buffon, iii. 189. — A. Jnss. Meliac. 80, t. 



{Omioeheton) ; Suppl. i. 196.— ? Thw. Emm. 5.— Endl. Gen. n. 6537.— B. H. Gen. 332, n. 13. 



PI. Zeyl. 60 {Bysoxylm). — TuRcz. Bull. Mose. * That is from the receptacle being slightly 



(1858), i. 412 [Eartighaea). — Hook. p. i^";. iV.- concave, with corolla slightly perigynous; 



Zel. i. 39 ; Man. N.-Zeal. Fl. 40 {Bysoxylvm).— whence germen inferior at base. 



Benth. Fl. Austral, i. 380 {I)ysoxylon).—H.. Bn. ' Large apple-like, acid. 



Adcmsonia, xi. 257.— Walp. Rep. i. 129 ; Ann. « Yellow, small or rather large. 



It. 387 {Dysoxylon) ; vii. 654 {Bysoxylon), 555. ' Spec, about 5, of which one is widely cul- 



2 Meliac. 77, t. 5.— Endl. Gen. n. 5634.— B. H. tivated within the tropics. Roxb. PI. Coromand. 

 Gen. 333. n. 12. *• 261 ; Fl. Ind. ii. 292.— Mta. Fl. Ind.-Saf. i. 



3 From the species of which presenting imbri- p. ii. 540; Suppl. i. 196.— H. Bn. Adansonia, xi. 

 oate petals {Buaffea) a, genus hitherto Uttle 264.— Walp. Sep. i. 431 ; iv. 387. 



