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polygamo-monoecious. Sepals quincuncial, oblong, rounded at apex, rather 

 unequal. JPetals 4, erect, oblong, concave, tomentose outside, the place of 

 the fifth vacant ; scale as large as the petal, obovate-oblong, densely shaggy- 

 crested incurved and cohering at apex, inserted near the base of the petal 

 and closely applied to its lamina. Bisk sernilunate-annular, much wider 

 towards one side, glabrous. Stameyis 8, inserted around the base of the 

 ovary, equal ; filaments shaggy, slender at the tip ; anthers small, 'shortly 

 exserted. Ovary ovoid-globose, glabrous, 3-lobed, 3-celled, contracted at 

 the apex into short erect style, stigma shortly 3-lobed ; ovules solitary in 

 the cells of the ovary. Fruit 1-3-coccous, 2 segments usually smaller or 

 obsolete, subglobose, rather fleshy, indehiscent. Seed globose, exarillate, ex- 

 albuminous; testa very thick> bony, embryo curved, cotyledons large 

 unequal incurved; radicle short, incumbent. — Distrib. A monotypic genus. 



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:. /. in Bentk ^ Hook f. Gen. PL i. 396 ; leaflets 

 14-26 usually lanceolate-acuminate delicately veined base oblique shortly 

 petioluled, inflorescence erect ovoid-pyramidal shorter than or about 

 equalling the leaves. Sapindus Rarak, i><7. i^ro^^ni 608; Blume RimphAn. 

 93, t. 167. IS. pinnatus, Mill Gard. Diet. No. 3. S. saponaria, Lwr. HU 

 CochincL 238 (notofLinn)—Rumph. Herb. Amboin. ii. 134. 



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Malacca, Griffith, Maingay. (Ceylon, introduced.)— Distkib. Cochin-chinaj Java, 

 Seychelles (introduced). 



V Trunk rising 50-60 ft., terete, covered with a glabrous tenacious smooth ba^. 

 Leaves ranging up to 1| ft., pari- or imparipinnate ; petiole not winged; leaflets 2^i 

 hy i-U in., glabrous: Panide 6-14 in., tawny-velvetj. Flowers \ in., tomentose, 

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,. ^ ^.^_ odd-pinnate, exstipulate, alternate 



Zeq^te opposite or sulopposite. entire. Panicles terminal, erect, bearing 

 the white irregular polygamo-'dioecibus flowers on elongated brancHes. 

 Sqials 5, unequal, orbicular, concave, broadly imbricated, the tj^o outer 

 ones smaller. Petals 4, unequal, obovate, clawed, the place of the Ota 

 vacant, scale hairy, hooded, with an apical lobed appendage. ; ^^'^ ^T- 

 sided, lobed. Stafnens 8, more or less turned to one side, rather ^nequai , 

 filaments hairy. Ovary stipitate, obcordate, 3-lobed, 3-celled ; styie 

 slender, stigma obscurely 3-lobed: ovules solitary in the cells of the ovary. 

 FruU l--3-lobed to the base ; segments oblong, indehiscent, di^er^inS- 

 iieeds oblong, exariUate, exalbuminous, testa membranous ; emDryw 

 straight ; cotyledons thick.— Distrib. Species 2, one of which is at preseu* 

 known to occur only in Senegambia. 



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1 'I- =• «<l«le. Slume Bijdr. 229 : PumpJda iii. 119, t. 166 ; leaflets 

 elliptic- or oyate-oblong often acuminate shortly pubescent at |ef ^ o° *" 

 veins beneath, base usually oblique obtuse shortly petioMed, fio^« 

 crowded. £enth. Fl. Austral, i. 454. E. rubiginosum, Bram. For. HL ^^^ 

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 lubiginosa, G. I)m Gen. Syst. i. 667. S. alteiTufoliusanc^ longifolms, ^ 

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