280 OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Sapindus, 
letted, oblong, with entire margins, and rounded emargi- 
nate apex, smooth, of a shining deep-green. and downy 
underneath. Petioles round, villous. Stipules none. Pa- 
nicles terminal, crowded with numerous ramifications of 
small, whitish, inodorous blossoms. Bractes small, cadu- 
cous. Calyx of five, equal, oblong leaflets. Petals five, 
equal, regularly disposed, oblong, or lanceolate, outside 
hairy; with two inflected woolly tufts on their margin 
near the middle. As in most, if not all, the other species, 
there is a notched, fleshy, hairy ring between the inser- 
tion of the petals and stamina. Filaments eight, short, 
woolly. Anthers two-lobed. Pericarp, drupes from one te 
four, though three is the most common number, slightly 
conjoined, singly, somewhat of an oblique-ovate shape, — 
with an elevation running from the base to the apex on 
the outside, smooth until wrinkled by age in drying, lined 
on the inside with a smooth, tough membrane, except 
round the insertion of the seed, and there hairy, as in S. 
detergens. Seeds, or nuts solitary, round, smooth, dark- 
coloured, indeed almost black ; size of a large marrow-fat 
pea, unilocular thick and exceedingly hard. , 
The leaflets in this species are always very obtuse, 
and generally emarginate ; this circumstance, together 
with a calyx, and corol of five parts, induces me to think 
Gertner’s Sapindus rigida, p. 341. 70. f. 3, must ~ aD 
other species. 
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3. S. detergens. R. 
Polygamous. Leaflets from four to five pair, subalternate 
obliquely oyate-oblong, obtuse. Petioles simple. Flowers 
' panicled. Caljces, and corols of five, equal, regularly — 
disposed leaflets, and petals. . Pret 
Hind. and Beng. Reetha. | iii 
Sans. Urista, : 
I have found this tree ee in Bengal, though a native 
