Sapinm. MONOECIA MONADELPHIA, 691 
to be small trees, about twenty feet high. Flowering time 
from April to June. 
Trunk tolerably straight, about as thick as a man’s shi 
Bark smooth, of a light ash-colour, Branches few, spread- 
ing ; young shoots bidsbei iad o,round and covered with minute 
- grains. Leaves alternate, long-petioled, broad-cordate, and 
while the trees were young generally with three acute lobes, 
margins scollop-serrate, when they first unfold a little mealy, 
but by the time they are full-grown, smooth on both sides, 
with a cluster of small, dark coloured glands at the base of 
the upper side, about six inches each way. Petioles near- 
ly as long as the leaves, round, smooth. Stipules very mi- 
nute. Racemes terminal, nearly compound, indeed it may 
often be called a panicle. Flowers pedicelled, from one to — 
three or even more together ; male and female mixed, but the 
former by far the most numerous, small, of a greenish yellow 
colour. Bractes subulate, mealy. Male calyx four or 
five-cleft; divisions expanding, broad-lanceolate, mealy on 
the outside. Corol none. Nectary, none visible. Filaments 
very numerous, inserted into a hemispheric gland. An- 
thers linear, twin, with a common obovate gland at the top. 
Female calyx five-cleft. Corol none, Nectary a small flat 
receptacle, with a crenulate margin on which the germ rests, 
Germ two-lobed, clothed with stellate pubescence, two-cell- 
ed, with one ovulum in each, attached to the top of the axis, 
Style two-cleft ; divisions recurvate, Stigmas simple. Cap- 
sule dicoccous, each consisting of two valves, which open 
from the base. Seeds solitary ,round, rugose, of a dark brown, 
about the size of a grain of pepper, affixed to the apex of a 
slender central receptacle. 
SAPIUM. Schreb. gen. N. 1469. 
Male calyx from two to four-parted. Corol none. Sta- 
mina from two to four. Female calyx from three to four- 
parted. Corof none. Germ superior, from two to three- 
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