238 SAPINDACEZ (Sond.) [ Schmidelia. 
ovules 2, one above the other, axile, the lower pendulous, the upper 
ascending-erect. Fruit inflated, of 3 membranous, dorsally winged, 
valveless carpels, connate by their inner faces. Seeds solitary, globose, 
compressed, on very short seed-cords; testa purple, without aril ; radicle 
next the hilum, inferior ; cotyledons? W. Arn.in Hook, Journ. Bot. 3. 
p. 258. 
A rigid, glabrous shrub, with alternate branches. Leaves impari-pinnate, crowded 
near the ends of the branches ; the rachis interruptedly winged, the wings narrow- 
obovate oblong, cuneate ; leaflets obovate, flat, undulate, very entire, mucronulate, 
acute at base, sub-sessile, flowers racemoso-corymbose, red. Name, epu@pos, red, and 
guoa, a bag; from the red, bladdery fruit. 
1, E. undulata (E. Mey.! in Pl. Drege). Erythrophila undulata, 
Arn. l. c. 
Has. At Uitkomst, 2000-3000 f., and on the Mts. before Kamisberge and Kas- 
parskloof, Elleboogfontein and Geelbecks Kraal, 3-4000 f. Aug. Drege / Namaqua- 
land, Backhouse! (Herb. Sond., T,C.D.). Z 
Branches rigid, with short, ashen, divaricated branchlets. Leaves an inch long ; 
leaflets 3 lines long, 2 lines wide. Racemes corymbose, or panicled, abbreviate, leaty 
at base, the rachis 1-14 inches long. Pedicels glandular. Calyx lobes downy 
within. Claws of the petals 2 lines long, lamina 4-5 lines. Ripe fruit 14 inches long, 
z inches wide, obtusely emarginate at base, shortly stipitate, purplish, netted with 
veins, Only one seed seen, in which the cotyledons were not developed. 
3 Ill. SCHMIDELIA, Linn. 
Flowers often monceciously polygamous. Calyx 4-parted. Petals 4, 
bearded on the face. Stamens 8. Ovary didymous. Fruit of two fleshy, 
one-seeded carpels. Hndl. Gen. No. 5605. DC. Prod. 1. p. 610. 
Tropical and sub-tropical trees and shrubs, Leaves alternate, trifoliolate or 
simple ; leaflets toothed, serrate, or sub-entire, often pellucid dotted, Flowers small, 
in axi racemes. Named in honour of Casimir Christopher Schmiedel, once 
Professor at Erlange, and author of several botanical treatises, between 1751 and 
1793. : 
* Leaves trifoliolate (Sp. 1-4). 
1. §. melanocarpa (Arn. in Hook. Journ. 3. p. 153); branchlets glab- 
‘Tous or downy ; leaves trifoliolate, leaflets petiolulate, oval, acuminate 
at each end, dentato-serrate, glabrous, bearded in the axils of the veins; 
peduncles divided into 2-3 subspicate racemes, thinly downy ; carpels 
_ black, sub-globose, one often abortive. Presi, Bot. Bem. p. 40. 8. Afri- 
cana, DC., ex Hochst. Rhus melanocarpa, E. Mey.! in Hb. Drege. 
an. Among shrubs, at Port Natal, Drege Gueinziue! Williamaon! (Herb. B. 
green below, with raised veins, the in coarsely toothed or sub-serrate. 
Ti lenge aves, ay tare “0 “ 
donger or shorter than the lea: sie 13 tenho beg? Bh: 
ca “e sh, on pedicels 11 line long, solitary, in pairs or ternate. Gare con- 
Serpe x Rapes } hairy d, with versatile anthers. Style bifid. 
