. The natural history of plants. Botany. TEREBINTH A OEJS. 259 flowers, small and numerous, are collected at tlie summits of tlie branches in clusters generally much ramified and composed of small cymes. The carpels become quite free in Buchanania ^ (fig. 262-264), con- sisting of trees from tropical Asia and Oceania, organized almost the same as the Spondias; but only one of these carpels has a fertile ovary, containing an anatropous ovule, suspended at the summit of a funicle which rises from the base of the cell. The micropyle is directed up- wards and inwards. In other respects, the flower
. The natural history of plants. Botany. TEREBINTH A OEJS. 259 flowers, small and numerous, are collected at tlie summits of tlie branches in clusters generally much ramified and composed of small cymes. The carpels become quite free in Buchanania ^ (fig. 262-264), con- sisting of trees from tropical Asia and Oceania, organized almost the same as the Spondias; but only one of these carpels has a fertile ovary, containing an anatropous ovule, suspended at the summit of a funicle which rises from the base of the cell. The micropyle is directed up- wards and inwards. In other respects, the flowers are regular with a short calyx, whose five divisions early cease to touch each other, five imbricate petals, and ten stamens arranged on two verticels round Baehanania Fig. 262. Mower without Fig. 264. Flower without the corolla (J). the perianth. Fig. 263. Longitudinal section of flower. a thick disk. The fruit is a monospermous drupe. Buchanania^ of which twenty species have been described,^ consists of trees with alternate, simple, entire, coriaceous leaves. The flowers, small and numerous, are arranged in axillary and terminal clusters, more or less ramified, and composed of cymes or glomerules. Sclerocarya,^ also closely allied to the Spondias, principally to Poupartia, has polygamous flowers with imbricated calyx and corolla, usually pentamerous, and from eight to fifteen stamens in the male flower, whilst the hermaphrodite flower has fewer (partly sterile). But the gyneeceum diff'ers from that of the Spondias (with which it was ' RoxB. Fl. Coromand. iii. 79, t. 282 ; Fl. Ind. ii. 386.—DC. Prodr. ii. 63.—Endl. Gen. n. 5919.—B. H. Gen. 421, n, 11.—March. Ana- card. 118, 193.—Coniogeton Bl. Bijdr. 1156.— Camtesaedea K. ia Arm. Sc. 2fat. ser. 1, ii. 386 (nee DC. nee Wight et Arn.). — Launzan BucHAir. iuAsiat. Mes. v. 123. 2 Wight et Abn. Prodi: i. 169.—Deless. Ic. Sel. iii. t. 64.—Wight, Icon. t. 81, 101, 237.— Mia. Fl. ii. p. i
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