110 a -  SAPINDACEA. j SOHMIDELIA, 
limb glabrous: stamens glabrous: ovary hairy, 2-lobed: style as long as the 
ovary, glabrous: fruit baecate.—2D C. prod. 1. p. 610; Spr. syst. 2. p. 223 
(excl. syn.) ; Wight! cat. n. 373 (partly), 375, 378 (partly).—Ornitrophe * 
Cobbe, Willd. ; Roxb. fl. Ind. 2. p. 268.—Rhus Cobbe, Linn. ?—Toxicoden- 
dron Cobbe, Gertn. fr. 1. t. 44.—Rheed. Mal. 5. t. 25 (not good). 
There is ne specimen of Rhus Cobbe in the Linnean herbarium, and what 
renders it more doubtful is that Kobbæ is applied in Ceylon both to this and 
to the next species: the present being the Boo-(or hairy)-Kobbe, the other 
the Moodu-(or sea)-Kobbe. 
379. (2) S. serrata (DC.:) leaves trifoliate ; leaflets stalked, ovate or ob- - | 
long, acute or acuminated, serrated ; younger ones glabrous, or pubescent | 
particularly beneath and on the nerves ; older ones glabrous, with a glandular 
tuft of hairs in the axils of the nerves: racemes axillary, solitary, simple; - 
rachis pubescent: petals cuneate, emarginate, with a scale bearing a tuft of 
hairs above the slightly pilose unguis, limb glabrous: stamens glabrous: 
ovary hairy, 2-lobed : style as long as the ovary, glabrous : fruit baccate.—2; 
leaflets small, 2-3 inches long, pubescent beneath when young : racemes sel- 
dom so long as the leaves.—Wight ! cat. n. 374, 376 (partly), 377, 380.—S. 
serrata, DC. prod. 1. p. 610; Spr. syst. 2. p. 222.—Ornitrophe serrata, Roxb. 
Cor. 1. t. 61; fl. Ind. 2. p. 266.—8; leaflets large, 3-6 inches long, glabrous 
when young, except in the axils of the nerves: racemes usually much longer 
than the leaves.— Wight! cat. n. 373 (partly), 376 (partly), 378 (partly), 379, 
381.—Ornitrophe aporetica, Roab. fl. Ind. 2. p. 264? 
Roxburgh describes the style as very short, and the stamens very hairy at 
the base: the style appears to us only short when the ovary swells, and the 
base of the filaments is glabrous. We can perceive no essential difference 
between this and the former species. From the numerous specimens sent to 
Dr Wight by his collectors, it appears to be a most variable plant: and we 
fear much that S. racemosa may not be distinct ; at least we cannot perceive 
the smallest difference between our var. « and the description of the Linnean 
specimen given by Smith in Rees’ Cyclopedia. Roxburgh's Ornitrophe gla- 
bra (fl. Ind. 2. p. 267, and in E. I. C. mus. tab. 1405), for which he quotes 
S. racemosa, being paieti glabrous on the rachis of the racemes, as well as 
the leaves, may perhaps be distinct ; but of this we have great doubts. Rox- 
burgh s O. aporetica (perhaps however not the Aporetica ternata of Forster) is; 
according to the description, not different from our var. B. If the same bota- 
nist's description (fl. Ind. 2. p. 263) and figure (in E. I. C. mus. tab. 1406, 
under All. ornitrophoides) of Allophyllus ternatus (with which Schmidelia dis- 
tachya, DC. is identical) be correct, it is quite distinct from S. serrata, and 
perhaps from the genus, as the petals are represented to be 4 and equidistant. 
As to Allophyllus ternatus, Lour., and Gemella trifolia of the same author, they 
appear quite the same plant, and we cannot point out how they are to be 
distinguished from S. serrata. ie Bae 
III. SAPINDUS. Linn. ; Lam. illt. 307 ; Gertn. fr. t. 70. 
Calyx 4-5-partite. Petals as many as the sepals, rarely one of them abor- 
tive, naked or hairy or with a scale above the claw. Torus a disk occupying | 
the bottom of the calyx, entire or erenulated. Stamens 8-10, inserted be- 
tween the margin of the disk and the ovary. Ovary 3, rarely 2-celled : ovule 
1, erect, at the base of each cell. Style crowned with a 3-, rarely 2-lobed 
stigma. Fruit externally fleshy, 1-2-lobed from abortion, rarely 3-lobed ; 
lobes globular, indehiscent, 1-seeded. Seeds without an arillus. Embryo 
curved or straight.— Trees. Leaves without stipules, usually abruptly pin- 
nate, sometimes unequally pinnate, or from abortion having only 1 leaflet. 
Flowers racemose. Berries saponaceous. 
