276 OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Schleichera, 
nate, from six to twelve inches long. Leaflets three or 
four pair, subopposite, lanceolate, entire, firm, lucid, ub- 
tusely acuminate, from four to eight inches long, and one 
or two broad. Petioles round, smooth. Stipules none. 
Panicles axillary, rather shorter than the leaves, crowded 
with numerous ramifications, and clothed with soft down. 
Flowers small, and very numerous, ofa dull yellowish 
green. MALE. Calyx five-parted; segments broad-cordate, 
a little hairy. Petals five, lanceolate, with two small, 
smooth, incurved scales at the base, asin the Sapindi. 
Nectary a torulose hairy ring between the insertions of the 
petals and filaments. Filaments seven or eight, the length 
of the petals, or longer. Anthers two-lobed. Germ an ob- 
long gland. 
HERMAPHRODITE and MALE flowers on a separate 
tree. Calyx, corol, and nectary of the hermaphrodite, 
like those of the male. Filaments shorter, but the an- 
thers as inthe male. Germ oblong, three-celled, with 
one ovula in each, attached to the bottom of its cell. 
Style scarcely any. Stigma of three recurved lobes. 
Capsule the size of a black currant; tapering intoa 
pedicel at the base, marked with three sutures on the out 
_ side, generally one-celled, three-valved ; the valves con- 
taining little cells filled with a fragrant balsam. Seed 
generally solitary, the size of a small pea, round, envelop- 
ed in a thin, succulent aril. Integuments single, smooth, 
brown. Perisperm none. Embryo curved, erect, greea- 
ish, Cotyledons uncqual, one-curved, the other, viz. the 
inferior one, doubled. Radicle conical, curved, ee So 
its apex touching one side of the umbilicus. 
The seed vessel of my other species, S. trijuga. Willd 
A, 1096. Koon. Geert. sem. 2. 486. t. 180. does not opel 
spontaneously as inthis, and sometimes contains three 
seeds, enveloped in a thick, succulent, subacid, edible 
aril. The proper integument is there also single; nor is” 
