420 xliv. SAPiNDACEiE (baker). [Paullmia. 



Also a plant of Madagascar and frequent in tropical America. The W. Indian P. iplut- 

 rocarpa, Rich., is given as a native of Guinea hy mistake in De Candolle's ' Prodromus. 



3. ERIOGLOSSUM, Blume j Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PL i. 



396. 



Flowers irregular, polygamo-monoecious. Sepals 5, unequal, roundish, 

 concave, the 2 outer ones' smaller than the others, broadly imbricated, in * 

 rows. Petals 4, with the place of the fifth vacant, unequal, unguiculate, 

 furnished with a hooded scale above the claw which is crested on the back. 

 Disk unilateral, lobed. Stamens 8, excentric, the filaments pilose, unequal, 

 the anthers slightly exserted. Ovary stalked, obovate-cordate, 3-lobed, &- 

 celled, the style slender, the stigma obscurely 3-lobed. Ovules solitary, 

 ascending from the base of the cells. Fruit (not seen in the African species] 

 divided to the base into obtuse oblong or subcylindrical, indehiscent lobes. 

 Seeds oblong, exarillate, with a membranous testa. Embryo straight, the 

 cotyledons thick. — Erect trees. 



One or two other species, tropical Asiatic. 



1. E. cauliflorum, Guill. et Pert: Fl. Seneg. i. 118. t. 28. An erect 

 tree, 15-20 ft. high, with ferruginous young branches. Main petiole about 

 2 in. long, ferruginous like the branches. Leaves imparipinnate ; leaflets in 

 2-4 sessile, opposite or casually alternate pairs, ovate-oblong, 3-5 in. wn 

 by less than half as broad, the point subobtuse, the edge entire, texture su - 

 coriaceous, both sides glabrous, the upper pale green and shining. Flowers in 

 slender, sessile, many-flowered racemes from the old wood, 3-4 in. long, tw 

 rachis ferruginous- villose. Bracts ovate, equalling the grey- villose pea ice l 

 and calyx, which are both about | in. long. Petals equal, pink, scarcely ex- 

 ceeding the calyx, ovate-oblong, fimbriated, with a large crested scale, sta- 

 mens exserted. Ovary globose-trigonous, woolly, 3-celfed, the cells uniovulat . 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perroltet ! 



4. SCHMIDELIA, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PL i. 396. 



Flowers polygamo-dioacious. Sepals four, in two opposite pairs, menwg 

 nous, cucullate, broadly imbricated, the two outer ones smaller than tn 

 others. Petals 4, small or absent, glabrous or villose internally. l>» sk uu !" 

 lateral, entire or lobed or with a gland opposite each petal. Stamens excentri 

 or subcentric, included or shortly exserted. Ovary excentric, single and £ 

 celled or didymous and 2-celled, rarely 3-lobed and 3-celled ; style robust, 

 divided sometimes to the base into 2 or 3 lobes. Ovules solitary m tn 

 cells, ascending from the base. Cocci of the fruit one or two, turbinate o 

 subglobose, dry and coriaceous or fleshy. Seeds erect, with a short flesny 

 arillus. Embryo curved, the cotyledons conduplicate.— Trees or shrubs witn- 

 out tendrils. 



A large genns belting the world in the tropics, represented most abundantly in America- 

 Leaves digitately 3-foliolate. 



Leaves quite glabrous on both sides when mature. 

 Inflorescence copiously paniculate. 



