440 xlv. anacakdiace2E (oliver). [Sorindeia. 



dons and a lateral ascending radicle." — Glabrous trees or shrubs. Leaves 

 alternate, unequally pinnate ; leaflets entire. Panicles terminal, axillary or 

 from the old wood, often lax and divaricate, many-flowered. 



A small genus, confined to tropical Africa and Madagascar. Of several of the species we 

 have only male flowers, and it is not improbable that those with iso- or diplosteroonous sta- 

 mens, may prove generically distinct from the original S. madagascariensis and S.juglandi- 

 folia. 



Leaves 1-5-7-1 1-foliolate, \-\\ ft. long. 

 Flowers 4-5-merous. 

 Ovary narrowed into style. (Stamens of $ fl. 10-20, 

 scattered on disk.) 

 Panicles terminal or axillary. Leaflets with an oblique 



spurious vein from the axils of the lateral nerves . . 1. S. juglandifoha. 

 Panicles lateral or from old wood, fascicled. Venation 



anastomosing, without the oblique vein as above ... 2. S. madagascanettsu- 



Stigma sessile (<? fl. unknown) 3. S. patens. 



Flowers 3-merous (? fl. unknown) ■ 4. S r trimera. 



Leaves multifoliolate, 2-4 ft. long. 



Leaflets distinctly acuminate. Flower 4-merous. Anthers 



much shorter than filaments 5. S. Mannii. 



Leaflets with short acumen or apiculate. Flowers 5-merous. 



Anthers equalling the filament 6. S. longifolia. 



1. S. juglandifolia, Planch, in Herb. Kew. Wholly glabrous. Leaves 

 unequally pinnate; leaflets 1-7-11 or more, coriaceous, usually alternate, pe- 

 tiolulate, oblong-elliptical, the terminal and upper rather larger tending to 

 obovate, obtuse with a short acumen or apiculus, entire, with a more, or less 

 distinct coriaceous marginal nerve ; midrib and lateral nerves rather promi- 

 nent, the reticulation confluent into more or less distinct oblique veins from 

 the axils of the lateral nerves; 1^-3^ (-6) in. long, f-l|(-3) in. broad; 



v,rc d *" 3 U1 lllc «hw<u nerves; i^-o^-oj id. long, *-x^-«v "" ihe 

 petiolule 1-3 lines. Panicles terminal or subterminal, erect, exceeding «■ 

 leaves with successively shorter racemose lateral branches. Flowers lr 

 lines, subsessile or on Ishort oedicels. 5-merous. Calyx cupuliform, SD0 ^ 



ig. Stamens of male flowers 15-20; 



i filament. Ovary glabrous, narrowed 



ry short recurved' adnate lobes. Ovule 



.... . — Dupuisia juglatid'ifolia, Rich, in * ' ■ 



Seneg. i. 148. t. 38. Sapindus simplici/olius, Don, Gard. Diet. i. 666, fi& 



lines, subsessile or on ^short pedicels, 5-merous. Calyx cupulifor 

 and broadly 5-toothed. Petals oblong. Stamens of male flowers 

 anthers linear-oblong, exceeding the filament. Ovary glabrous, 

 into the style ; stigma with 3-4 very short recurved' adnate lobes, 

 inserted near the middle of the cell. — Dupuisia hialandi folia, Rich, in f |- 

 Seneg. i. 148. t. 38. Sap, 

 Benth. in Fl. Nigrit. 286. 



Upper Guinea. River Nuuez, Senegambia ! 

 Lower Guinea. Congo, Burton ! 



V ar. dicancata. Leaflets larger, up to 4-6 in. long ; panicles lax, widely divaricate, pedi 

 eels (<?) slender, equalling or exceeding the flowers (S. heterophylla, Hook. I Fl. WP> 

 286).— Sierra Leone, Don ! Oldfield! Bagroo river (a climbing shrub), Mann ! 



Oldfield says the fruit is eaten. The Congo specimens are altogether smaller and the 

 leaflets more numerous than in the Senegambian plant, but the differences are such as statioi 

 might ca&ily occasion. I have not seen uuifoliolate specimens myself. , p 



This is probably the undescribed Sorindeia africana (DC. Prod. ii. 80), referred to by »• 

 Brown in Tuckey's Cougo, App. 431. 



2. S. madagascariensis, DC. Prod. ii. 80. A tree, often of l»<¥ e 

 size, wholly glabrous. Leaves unequally pinnate, more or less coriaceous ; 



