430 xliv. safindacEjE (bakek). [Chytranthus. 



1. C. Mannii, Hook./. I. c. A small tree, 15-18 ft. bigli with strong, 

 terete, glabrous branches. Full-grown leaves 3-4 ft. long, the petiole 1 ft. 

 or more, strong, woody, glabrous, terete; leaflets in 5-7 pairs, erecto-patent, on 

 short corrugated petiolules, the larger ones 15-18 in. long, 3-4 in. broad, ob- 

 lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, the point much acuminated, the edge entire, 

 the base cuneate; texture subcoriaceous, colour pale green, both surfaces 

 quite glabrous, the upper glossy, the main veins raised beneath and connected 

 by arching veinlets a space within the edge. Flowers in slightly compound 

 racemes, 3-4 in. long, from the old wood. Calyx 4 lines deep, urceolate, 

 coriaceous, finely matted on the back with very pale brown tomentum, the 

 teeth lanceolate, reaching about a third of the way down. Capsule coria- 

 ceous, wrinkled, ferruginous, about 2 in. broad, not quite as long, the 3 

 valves 1 in. deep. 



Upper Guinea. Prince's Island, Mann I Barter ! banks of the river Muni, lat. 1 

 N., Mann I 

 Fruit edible. 



10. SAPINDUS, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. 404. 



Flowers polygamous, regular. Sepals 4-5, biseriate, broadly imbricated. 

 Petals 4-5, scaleless or furnished with 1 or 2 scales above the claw. Bisk 

 complete, annular. Stamens usually 8-10, centrical, the filaments usually 

 pilose ; anthers versatile. Ovary entire or 2-4-lobed, 2-4-celled ; style 

 terminal ; stigma 2-4-lobed. Ovules solitary in the cells, ascending from the 

 interior angle at the base. Fruit fleshy or coriaceous, usually with 1-2 

 cocci, which are oblong or globose and indehiscent. Seeds usually glo- 

 bose, exarillate, with a crustaceous or membranous testa. Embryo straight 

 or curved, the cotyledons thick, the radicle incurved. — Trees or shrubs, 

 sometimes climbing. 



A. considerable genus, principally tropical. 



Leaves in 2 pairs. Stamens 8 1. S. senegalenris. 



Leaves in 4-5 pairs. Stamens 12-15 .......... 2. S. xanthocarpus- 



1. S. senegalensis, Poir. ,- DC. Prod. i. 608. A tree 20-30 ft. 

 high with strong, woody, slightly grey-downy branches. Petioles \ in. long, 

 the rachis not winged ; leaflets in 2 short-stalked, erecto-patent pairs about 

 1 in. apart, which are oblong, 3-4 in. long by about half as broad, narrowed 

 gradually from the middle to both ends, the edge entire, texture subcoria- 

 ceous, colour pale green, both sides glabrous with the veinlets in relief. Flowers 

 in copious, terminal, thyrsoid panicles crowded in the upper part of the 

 branches ; pedicels equalling the calyx, which is i in. deep, slightly downy, 

 the 5 sepals oblong or roundish, blunt, unequal, much imbricated. Petals 

 5, whitish, spathulate, ciliated, with a small densely villose scale. Stamens 

 7-8, the filaments villose downwards. Capsule usually solitary, turbinate 

 or globose, £-f in. long, dark purple, fleshy, glabrous.—-?, adyssinicus, Fresen. 

 in Mus. Senck. ii. 278 ; A. Kich. Fl. Abyss, ii. 103. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Pe rrottet ! Heudelot ! Brunnerl 



