416 xliii. ampelideje (bakek). [Leea. 



Lower Guinea. Congo, Smith 1 Angola, Br. Welwitsch ! 

 Ranges through tropical Asia to Polynesia. 



2. L. tinctoria, Lindl. mss. in Herb. Kew. A suberect shrub, 5-10 ft. 

 high with woody, terete, naked branches. Petioles 3-4 in. long, firm, 

 naked, woody. Leaflets in 2 opposite pairs 2-3 in. apart, and a terminal 

 one, oblong, 5-8 in. long, 2^-3 in. broad, the point acute, the base broadly 

 cuneate or a little rounded, the edge indistinctly toothed ; texture subcoriace- 

 ous, both sides glabrous ; petiolules of the side leaflets |~£ in. long. Flowers 

 in lax cymes 5-6 in. broad, on firm woody peduncles 3-4 in. long, the 

 branches ferrugineo-tomentose ; ultimate pedicels \ in. long. Calyx glabrous, 

 campanulate, 1^-2 lines deep with 5 deltoid teeth reaching about a third 

 down. Buds narrow -oblong. Corolla 5-6 lines deep, the petals the same 

 colour as in the preceding ; the staminal tube three-quarters as long as the 

 corolla. Fruit not seen. 



Upper Guinea. Island of St. Thomas, Ackerman ! Br. Welwitsch I 

 Used in djeing. Dr. Lindley and Dr. Welwitsch have hoth given it the same specific 

 name in manuscript independent of one another. 



Order XLIV. SAPINDACEiE (by Mr. J. G. Baker). 



Flowers usually polygamous, regular or irregular. Sepals 4-5, rarely 

 or more numerous, free or more or less connate, often unequal, usually im- 

 bricated, sometimes valvate. Petals 3-5, rarely or more numerous, equal 

 or unequal, the lower often absent or smaller than the rest, imbricated, 

 usually bearded or furnished with a scale on the inner face.- Disk various, 

 complete or incomplete, sometimes 1 -sided, rarely absent. Stamens 5-24, 

 in the African species usually 8, usually inserted below the disk, sometimes 

 unilateral, straight or declinate, sometimes inserted above the disk or round 

 its base ; the filaments usually elongated, filiform or subulate, often villose. 

 Anthers oblong and didymous or linear and tetragonous, versatile or at- 

 tached at the base. Ovary centrical or eccentric, entire or more or less, 

 often deeply, lobed, 1-4, usually 3-celled. Style terminal, simple or divided, 

 straight or declinate, sometimes twisted; stigma usually simple. Ovules 

 anatropal campylotropal or amphitropal, usually solitary in the cells, ascend- 

 ing and affixed to the axis, with a usually ventral raphe and inferior tax- 

 cropyle, rarely horizontal or inverted, the funiculus usually tumid. Fruit 

 capsular or indehiscent, drupaceous baccate or coriaceous, entire or lohed, 

 rarely of 2-3 samaras, the valves dehiscing variously. Seeds globose or com- 

 pressed, naked or arillate ; testa various, often horny ; albumen usually 0. 

 Embryo usually thick, often plicate or spirally convolute. Cotyledons 

 usually plano-convex, large and unequal, collateral or superposed ; radiwe 

 short, inferior, mostly descending.— Often tall trees, rarely shrubs or herbs, 

 sometimes climbing and cirrhiferous. Leaves alternate in the suborders 

 represented in tropical Africa, often evergreen, usually without stipules, 

 simple or compound, imparipinnate or equally pinnate. Inflorescence various, 

 Flowers always small and inconspicuous. Fruit occasionally edible. 



An Order of 600-700 species, mostly tropical, but a very small proportion African. 



