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Preailed mein one or two ovules attached to the inner angle of each cell. 
ruit, ee hace coriaceous or woody capsule, one- to folas celled, some- 
nes winged or, rarely, a drupe or berry, usually indehiscent ; saree opteaee 
losperm, cotyledons spirally folded. 
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GENUS I. Doponaa, Linné. 
bas shrubs or trees, often with viscid twigs. Leaves usually simple, exstipulate. 
Flowers s dicecious or polygamous, Saeralouss sepals, three to five. Male flowers, 
“stame ons, five to eight, filaments short, anthers four-angled. Female | dowel 
ovary superior, with two ovules in each cell. Fruit, a (ie mbranone or coriaceous 
4 apsule, three- to six-valved, each valve broadly winged at the back. 
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Genus 2. ALectryon, Gaertner. 
; A tree with tomentose branchlets. Leaves alternate, unequally pinnate. 
x Flowers i in axillary or terminal many-flowered panicles, small bi- or uni-sexual : 
calyx four- or five-lobed, imbricate; disc eight-lobed, small; stamens, five to 
"eight, inserted between the lobes a the sre filaments eign shee anthers 
large ; ovary compressed, one-celled, one-ovuled ; stigma simple or bifid. Fruit, 
a: woody indehiscent capsule, with a eotnnreased oe on one side termi- 
nating in a spur at the back; seed pyriform, black, malar cotyledons coiled in 
a spiral. 
Monotypic. 
Orper 11. ANACARDIACEAE. 
Trees with alternate exstipulate leaves and regular flowers, perfect or 
unisexual. Calyx three- to seven-lobed; petals, three to seven, inserted on an 
annular disc, sometimes absent; stamens equal or double the number of petals, 
alternating with staminodia; anthers versatile; ovary usually superior, one- to 
five-celled; ovule solitary, pendulous. Fruit, a drupe; seed with a membranous 
testa, cotyledons fleshy, endosperm absent. 
This order comprises the Pistachio nut, Prstacia vera ; P. Terebinthus yields 
the famous Cyprus turpentine; the genus Rhus, several species of which are 
-yaluable for tanning, also belongs to the order. 
GENUS I. Corynocarpus, Forster. 
A glabrous tree with perfect flowers. Calyx five-lobed, imbricate; petals, 
five, perigynous, erect, imbricate, toothed or lacerate; disc fleshy, five-lobed ; 
stamens, five, inserted between the lobes of the disc, and alternating with five 
petaloid jagged scales; ovary one-celled. Fruit, a fleshy drupe, with a cori- 
aceous and fibrous endocarp; seed, one, pendulous. 
OrpeR 12. CORIARIE. 
Glabrous shrubs, with angular branches and opposite exstipulate leaves. 
petals hypogynous, becoming fleshy and appressed to the carpels after flowering ; 
stamens, ten, hypogynous, filaments elongating; carpels, five or ten, arranged 
round a fleshy receptacle, one-celled; styles, five or ten, free, stigmatiferous over 
the greater portion of their surface. Fruit of five to eight small crustaceous 
achenes invested by the fleshy petals; endosperm thin. 
Genus I. Corrarta, Linne, 
The only genus. 
Flowers perfect, axillary, solitary or racemed: sepals, five, imbricate, persistent ; 
