278 OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. — Sapindus, 
Drupe the size of a nutmeg, a little pointed, covered with 
a tender, dry, grey bark.-Seeds one, two or three, oblong, 
smooth, at the base obliquely truncate, and there affixed, 
each surrounded with its proper whitish, pulpy aril, 
which is of a pleasant acid taste, and is most grateful 
during dry weather. Embryo doubled, with inferior ra- 
dicle and no perisperm. 
The bark is astringent, rubbed up with oil, the natives 
of these parts use it to cure the itch. The wood is hard, 
and employed for many purposes by the natives. 
SAPINDUS. 
Calyx from four to five leaves. Corol from four to five 
petalled, in some unilateral. | Germ superior, three cell- 
ed, cells one-seeded ; attachment inferior. Berries three. 
superior, more or less united. Seed solitary. Embry0 
erect, curved, or straight, no perisperm. 
1. S. laurifolius. Willd. 2. 469. Vahl. symb. 3. 54. 
- Leaflets three-pair, ovate, lanceolate. smooth, rachis 
simple. Panicles terminal. Petals five, lanceolar, equally 
woolly all over the inside. 
A stout, very shady tree, a native of various parts of 
India. Flowering time December; the seed ripens in 
April. ; 
Trunk straight, when full grown as_ thick as a man’s 
body. Bark, a mixture of ash and olive colour, Bran 
ches numerous, spreading much in every direction. Leaves 
alternate, abruptly pinnate. Leaflets three pair, though 
sometimes next to the panicles two pair, obliquely ovate 
lanceolate, taper-pointed, entire and smooth on_ both 
sides ; veins elevated and whitish ; from four to six 
inches long, Petioles round. Petiolets short and rugos® 
Panicles terminal, broad-ovate, large, and very ramous 5 
ramification rather scaly, Bractes minute. Flowers, 
