'•] XLIV. SAPINDACEjE (baker). 431 



Kile Land. Abyssinia, RiippeU. 



I have not seen the Abyssinian plant, but judging from the description it may be safely 

 referred here. 



2. S. xanthocarpus, Klotzsch in Peters' Mossamb. Bot. 119. Varies 

 from a shrub to a large tree with strong, woody, terete, slightly grey-downy 

 branches. Leaves sessile or nearly so, the rachis narrowly winged with 4 

 ft 5 pairs of nearly sessile oblong leaflets, which are |-1 in. apart, l|-2 in. 

 'j D o» 2-1 in. broad, the apex rounded and often emarginate, the edge entire, 

 foe base also rounded, texture coriaceous, colour bright green, both sides 

 S'abrous, veins and veinlets in relief beneath. Flowers in ample terminal pa- 

 "icles sometimes 1 ft. long, with woody spreading branches and flowers 

 crowded upwards; pedicels very short. Calyx 2 lines long; the sepals 4-5, 

 unequal, oblong, blunt, concave, matted with fine, drab, silky tomentum, 

 »mte towards the border. Petals spathulate, equalling the sepals in num- 

 ber and length, with a small villose scale above the claw. Stamens 12-15. 

 *rmt subcarnose, 2-3-lobed, the lobes globose, golden-yellow, nearly glabrous 

 "'nen mature. 



Mozamb. Distr. From the lower part of the Zambesi along the Shire as far inland 

 " Uke Njassa, Peters, Drs. Meller and Kirk! 

 Native name N'talala. 



11. DEINBOLLIA, Schum. et Thonn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. 



i. 405. 



Flowers regular, polygamo-raoncecious. Sepals 5, roundish, concave, 

 coriaceous, broadly imbricated. Petals 5, obovate or orbicular, equalling or 

 e *ceeding the calyx, woolly or scaly at the base. Disk complete, annular, 

 jwated. Stamens 8-24, inserted within the disk, uni- or multiserial, the 

 "laments filiform and hairy; anthers linear-oblong. Ovary 2-3-partite to 

 •j base, the lobes subglobose, 1-celled, the style thick, central, erect, straight 

 0r twisted, with a long stigma. Ovules solitary in the cells, affixed to the 

 m at the base. Fruit 1-3-lobed, the lobes smooth, globose, coriaceous. 

 See( l globose with a fleshy arillus and coriaceous testa, the cotyledons un- 

 e 9«al, thick, plano-convex,' the radicle shortly accumbent.— Trees. 



Confined to W. tropical Africa. 



Cameos 24 . I. D. insignia. 



^aniens 16 2. D. cuneifolia. 



^metis 8. 



Petals exceeding the calyx 3 - D - V^nata. 



ret als equalling the calyx 4 - D - l*»rifolta. 



. ]• D. insignis, Hook. /. FL NigrU. 250. A tree 20-25 ft. high with 

 porous, terete, strong, woody branches. Petiole 6-8 in. long, the leaflets in 

 gjj 6 not quite opposite, subsessile pairs, 2-3 in. apart, which are oblong, 

 B* in - long, 3-4 in. broad, the point acute, the base rounded, the edge 

 J D f lre ; texture subcoriaceous, both sides pale green and quite glabrous, the 



ems a nd veinlets raised beneath. Flowers in copious panicles with sub- 

 Jcemose branches, the central one in one of our specimens 2 ft. long ; pe- 

 Qlcel s 1 line or less long, thick, coriaceous. Flowers i in. long; the sepals 



