Molinea. OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 243 
round or oval, considerably flattened ; interior half 
yellow, in the middle of which is a large whitish, flat 
umbilicus ; exterior half of a smooth, shining, chesnut 
colour, across which is a trifling groove, marking the se- 
paration of the transverse cotyledons. Perisperm none. 
Embryo transverse. Cotyledons conform to the seed. The 
Plumula and Radicle together form a minute, round spot 
in the centre of the cotyledons, the former pointing to the 
umbilicus, and the latter to the circumference, (centrifu- 
gal.) 
MOLINEA. Juss. 
: Calyx five-parted. Corol five-petalled, unequal. Fila- 
ments woolly, ascending over the small petal. Capsule 
_ three-celled, three-valved. Seed solitary. 
1. M. canescens. Willd. 2. 329. Corom. pl. 1. N. 60. 
Leaves abruptly-pinnate; leaflets two pair, obtuse. 
Racemes on the leafless branchlets, Style single ; stigma 
three-toothed. 
Teling. Korivee. 
_ Sapindus fetraphyllus. Vahl. Symb. 3. 54. 
A native of the Circar mountains, and flowers about 
the time the Sapindus does. 
- Trunk not straight, but thick. Bark ‘ach oalseabies a 
little scabrous. Branches numerous, spreading in every 
direction, Leaves alternate, abruptly-pinnate, sometimes 
ternate, about six or eight incheslong. Leaflets opposite, 
generally two-pair, oblong, entire, smooth, shining, firm, 
five or six inches long, and two or three broad. Petioles 
round, four or five inches long. Racemes many, simple, or 
compound, from the extremities of the last, or two last 
years’ leafless branchlets round the base of the present 
‘Year's shoots. Flowers small, white, fascicled. Calyx ine, ‘ 
 ferior, paveesttor Petals five, four large, and standing on 
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