240 : SAPINDACEH (Sond.) [Sapindus. 
Leaves 3 inches long, 2 inches wide, articulate to the apex of an inch long petiole, 
dull green above, paler or livid below. Spikes, including the peduncle, 2-4 inches 
long. Flowers as in the other species. 
IV. SAPINDUS. Linn. 
Calyx unequally 5-parted or of 5-sepals, 2 outside 3. Petals 4, 5, 9, 
naked or bearded at the base inside, or furnished with a scale above the 
claw. Stamens 8-10 or rarely more, on a hypogynous disc. Style one; 
stigmata 3. Fruit of 3 fleshy or leathery, sub-globose carpels, connate 
at base, 1-2 often abortive. Seed erect, with or without aril; cotyle- 
dons thick, curved, the outer embracing the inner, which is transversely 
folded ; radicle acute, inferior. Endl. Gen. 5610, also Pappea, H. & Z.! 
En. p. 53. Endl. Gen. 5635. Harv. Gen. S.A. Pl. p. 36. 
Tropical and sub-tropical, unarmed trees with abruptly pinnate, or by abortion of 
one leaflet often impari-pinnate, more rarely simple, coriaceous leaves. Flowers 
polygamous, in axillary racemes or in terminal panicles. Name, a syncope of Sapo- 
Indicus, Indian Soap; the aril of the seeds of S. Saponaria is used in S. America as 
soap. 
* Leaves pinnate. (Sp. 1-2.) 
1, 8. capensis (Sond.); branches and leaves glabrous; rachis not 
winged ; leaves petiolate, abruptly pinnate, leaflets in 3-4 pairs, sessile, 
oblong, narrowed at base and apex, obtusely toothed, coriaceous, undu- 
late, netted with veins, with minute pellucid dots ; panicle axillary, 
shorter than the leaf; carpels 2-1, sub-globose, glabrous. 
aay Langekloof, George, 24000 f., H.&Z.! Drege, No. 8266. Decr. (Herb. 
Branches ash-coloured. Leaves alternate. Rachis 2}~3 inches long, narrow. Leaf- 
lets 224 inches long, 7—12 lines wide, cuneate, acuminate, sub-obtuse, paler below ; 
the teeth obtuse, }-1 line long. Panicle 1-2 inches long, minutely downy. Flowers 
unknown. Fruit short-stalked, fleshy; each carpel as big as a cherry, one-seeded. 
Seed erect, brownish purple, shining, larger than a pea. 
2. S. oblongifolius (Sond.); dicecious ; leaves petiolate, abruptly or 
unequally pinnate, leaflets 5-7 pairs, petiolulate, alternate or opposite, 
oblong, netted with veins, glabrous ; panicle axillary, thinly pubescent, 
the flowers fascicled ; stamens 15-163; carpels 3-1, fleshy, sub-globose, 
~ one-seeded, the younger yellow-tomentose, the older glabrous. Rhus 
_ oblongifolia, E. Mey.! Hb. Drege. Prostea oblongif. Arn. in Hook. Lond. 
Journ. Vol. 3. Presi, l.c. Simaba lachnocarpa, Hochst. Pl. Krauss, 
: — No. 113. Sapindus capensis, Hochst. Flora, 1843. p. 80, excl. syn. 
Wan oe at Omsamculo and near Port Natal, Drege, Krauss, Hewitson, and 
= tees. _Leaves 6-12 inches long. Leaflets 2-34 inches long, 1-1} inch wide, 
oblong, sub-apiculate anthers. 
not seen, Style hairy, 
of 3, 2, 1 carpels, each carpel obovate- 
