508 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



nipetalous longer ; anthers subcordate apiculate introrse, 2-rimose, 

 Yersatile. Germen immersed at base of disk, depressed ovoid, 3-locu- 

 lar ; style short, apex stigmatose obscurely 3-lobed ; ovules in cells 

 to 8, in 2 series. Capsule ovoid-oblong coriaceous, loculicidal; valves 

 3, septiferous in middle ; columella 0. Seeds imbricate, and inserted 

 at margins of septa, unequally alate ; hilum lateral ; cotyledons of 

 exalbuminous embryo plano-convex ; radicle short. — A tall tree ; 

 wood hard yellow ; leaves abruptly pinnate ; leaflets obtuse entire ; 

 flowers^ in terminal and axillary compound ramose cymiferous racemes. 

 {East India?) 



32. Flindersia R. Be.^ — Flowers hermaphrodite; sepals 5, short, 

 imbricate, sometimes connate at base. Petals 5, longer, imbricate, 

 finally patulous. Stamens 10, exterior to cupular or shortly tubular 

 rather thick subentire or crenate disk, 2-seriate ; oppositipetalous 

 shorter, often anantherous or ; filaments free, incurved at apex ; 

 anthers short suborbiculate or suboordate, introrse, 2-rimose. Germen 

 immersed at bottom of disk free ; cells 5, oppositipetalous, more or 

 less prominent at back, and sometimes glandulose at apex ; style in- 

 serted in depressed summit of germen, apex stigmatose capitate- 

 5-lobed; ovules in cells 4-qo , 2-seriate in internal angle. Capsule 

 oblong woody, verrucose or echinate at back, septicidal 5-valv^ate; 

 valves free from septiferous and finally 5-partible columella. Seeds 

 ascendent compressed on both sides in septa, above or on both sides 

 produced to imbricate wing ; hilum lateral at base ; cotyledons of 

 transverse exalbuminous embryo thick foliaceous ; radicle short. — 

 Trees or shrubs ; leaves opposite or alternate, imparipinnate or 1-3- 

 foliolate ; rachis alate {StruelecMa) ;* leaflets entire, punctate below; 

 flowers crowded in terminal or axillary very ramose compound cymi- 

 ferous racemes, articulate.^ {Tropical and subtropical Oceania,^) 



1 Small, white. Gm. n. 6555. 



* Spec. 1. C. Swietenia DC. loe. cit. — Wight * StrzeleckyaY. Mueh. Hook. Kew Journ. ix. 



and Am. Prodr. i. 123.— Wight, III. t. 56 bis.— 308. 



Walp. Mep. i. 436. — Swieti-aia Ghloroxylon EoxB. * Small, -white. 



Fl. Coromand. 46, t. 64.— W. Spec. ii. 557.— PoiR. « Kdmph. Serb. Amboin. iii. 201, t. 129 {Arlor 



Diet. Suppl. iii. 575, n. 4. radulifera).—iS.iQ.. Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. ii. 547.— 



^ FUnd. Foy. ii. 59, t. 1.— DC. Prodr. \.&25. — F. Muell. Fra^m. i. 65; iii. 25; Journ. 



—A. Juss. Meliac. 101.— Spach, Suit, a Buffon, Fharm. Soc. Vict, ii. 44.— Bekth. Fl. Austral, i. 



iii. 172.— Endl. &cn. n. 5554.— B. H. Gen. 340, 388.- Panch. et See. Bois N. CaUd. 228. — 



n. 37.— H. Bn. Faycr Fam. Nat. iQI.—Oxleya Walp. Sep. i. 436 ; Ann. vii. 561. 

 A, CUNN. Soolc. Bot. Misc. i. 246, t. 54.— Endl. 



