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236 SAPINDACE® (Sond.) 
Terebinth, No.9. Bothasberg, Alb., 2.4 Z./ Tereb. No. 8. In Uitenhage and George, 
E.& Z.! Ter. No. 7., Drege, Krauss. Port Natal, Drege, Krauss, &c. Oct. April. 
(Herb. Sond., T.C.D., Hook.). 
A tree, 20-50 feet high, with grey bark, and angular, pubescent branches, Leaves 
alternate, petiolate, ovate-elliptical, oblong, or ovate-acuminate, 1-24 inches long, 
obtuse, very entire, rounded or cuneate at base, perennial, glabrous and shining on 
the upper, sparsely pubescent on the lower side, at length glabrous, and drying black. 
Panicles terminal, loosely branched, as long as the leaves or longer. Bracts minute, 
ovate or lanceolate. Flowers scarcely more than 1 line long. Calyx minutely downy. 
Corolla glabrous. Drupe baccate, 2 lines long, including the fleshy appendage, 4 
lines wide. Seed ovate-reniform, compressed, with a thin seed coat; albumen abun- 
dant, fleshy, black. 
OrperR XXVIII SAPINDACEZ. Juss. 
(By W. SonpEr.) 
(Sapindi, Juss. Gen. 246. Sapindacer, Juss, An. Mus. 18, 476. 
DC. Prod. 1. p. 601. Endl. Gen. No. cexxx. Lindl. Veg. Kingd. No. 
CXXXVi.) z 
Flowers often polygamous or unisexual. Calyx 4—5-parted, with im- 
bricate sestivation, the sepals mostly unequal and partly connate. Petals 
—5 (or sometimes none), alternate with the sepals and often bearded, 
or furnished with scales on the inner face, imbricated in estivation. 
Dise fleshy, free or adhering to the bottom of the calyx, interposed be- 
tween the petals and stamens, regular or irregular. Stamens inserted 
within the disc, 8-10 or fewer, rarely 12-20, often excentrical ; filaments 
filiform, free or connate at base ; anthers 2-celled, introrse. Ovary free, 
2-4-celled, with axile placentz ; ovules 1-3, rarely more numerous ; 
style simple or 2—4-cleft. Frwit capsular or fleshy ; seeds often arillate, 
exalbuminous ; embryo usually curved or convolute, with incumbent 
or rarely accumbent cotyledons and an inferior radicle. 
Trees, shrubs or herbaceous plants, natives of the warmer temperate and the tro- 
pical zones. Leaves alternate, rarely opposite, very often compound, ternate or 
pinnate or supra-decompound. Stipules none or small and caducous. Inflorescence 
racemose or paniculate. 
A considerable Order much diversified in vegetation and in the structure of its 
flowers, but not readily divisible, except into sub-orders. We append to it two 
genera, Pteroxylon and Aitonia, whose affinities are uncertain, but which cannot be 
very far removed. Picroxylon differs by its slightly imbricate, erect petels, its regu- 
__ lar and isomeric stamens, winged seeds and accumbent cotyledons ; in all but the 
_ last of these characters resembling Cedrelacee. Aitonia, which has been sometimes 
referred to Meliacee, sometimes to the Geranial-group of Orders, and sometimes to 
= oe differs from Sapindacee chiefly by the insertion of its stamens, outside the 
collateral ovules and the slightly curved embryo. In external habit it is 
ea, and its bladdery capsules resemble of Cardiospermum and 
THE SOUTH AFRICAN GENERA. 
wers furnished with petals. 
-lobed, 
