114° SAPINDACEA. à Donon A &. 
VI. SCHLEICHERA. Willd. 
Calyx 5-toothed. Petals wanting. Disk occupying the bottom of the 
calyx. Stamens 6-10, inserted between the margin of the disk and the ovary. 
Ovary 3-celled, with one erect ovule from the base of each cell. Style 
crowned by a 3-cleft stigma. Fruit an indehiscent drupe, with 1-2 or rarely 
3 cells. Seeds solitary in each cell, covered with a pulpy arillus. Embryo 
much eurved.—Trees. Leaves exstipulate, abruptly pinnate : leaflets oppo- 
site or nearly so. Flowers small, disposed in spike-like racemes. 
We have retained Willdenow’s genus against Cambessedes’ opinion, because the 
true species of Melicocca have a 4-partite em 4 petals, 8 stamens, a 2-celled ovary, 
a l-seeded drupe, a straight embryo as in Ne helium, and are natives of America; 
which combination of characters is surely suldeient. We shall give a specific cha- 
racter to the species we have before us, as there may be more than one in the East. 
388. (1) S. trijuga (Willd.:) leaflets about 3 pair, oblong or broadly lan- 
ceolate, acute or obtuse or retuse, quite entire, nearly glabrous: racemes 
axillary or below the leaves, round the base of the young shoots, solitary, 
simple or compound: drupe globose, pointed, with a dry pericarp: seeds 
1-2, rarely 3—Roab.! fl. Ind. 2. p. 877 ; Roth. nov. sp. p. 385 ; Wight! cat. n. 
368, 382, 283, 384.—Melicocca trijuga, Juss. in Mem. mus. 3. p. 187. t. 8; 
DC. prod. 1. p. 615.—Stadmannia trijuga, Spr. syst. 2. p. 243.— Cussambium 
pubescens, Ham. in Wern. trans. 5. p. 901.—C. glabrum, Ham.? c. lL— 
Koon, Gertn. fr. 2. p. 486. t. 180. : 
The Cingalese name is Aimbul-kon. The shape of the leaflets varies on 
the same tree, and even sometimes on the same specimen. All our spec 
mens have the fruit furnished more or less abundantly with stout prickles 
(as in Cussambium spinosum, Ham. and Rumph. Amb. 1. t. 57), which be- 
pe make their appearance when the ovary is very little advanced : as this 
not been noticed by Roxburgh, it may perhaps be caused by an insect. 
The petioles are usually pubescent, whence Schleichera pubescens of Roth 
may perhaps be a state of this plant with one of the terminal leaflets abor- 
tive, as in Rumph's We of his Cussambium, which appears to us a vety 
closely allied species if not a mere variety. 
TRIBE IIL.—DODONJEACEX. Camb. 
Ovary containing 2-3, rarely more, ovules in each cell. Embryo spirally twisted. 
VII. DODONAEA. Linn.; Lam. ill. t. 304. 
Calyx 4- or rarely 5-partite. Petals none. Disk hypogynous, usually in- 
conspicuous. Stamens 8, rarely 9 or 10, inserted on the disk or receptacle. 
Style 2-3- rarely 4-cleft; the segments longitudinally stigmatose on the m- 
side. Capsule 2-3-4-angled, with as many cells and valves, septicidal ; : 
valves carinate and winged on the back ; central axis 2-4-angled, 2-4-winged. — | 
Seeds destitute of arillus.—Shrubs with exstipulate simple or pinnate leaves. | 
Flowers small, greenish yellow. ‘ 
389. (1) D. Burmanniana (DC.:) older branches terete, younger trique- 
trous: leaves simple, quite entire, oblong-lanceolate, cuneate and ta 
at the base, obtuse or acute but not attenuated at the apex, clammy: flower? 
racemose: sepals ovate: capsules on longish pedicels, deeply emar at 
both ends; ale 2-8, broad—DC. prod. 1. p. 616; Spr. syst. 2. p. 242 ; 
Wight! cat. n. 366.—D. angustifolia, Rowb. fl. Ind. 2. p. 256 (not? Wilid.); 
in E. I. C. mus. tab. 626.—Ptelea viscosa, Burm. Ind. p. 36.—Burm. Zeyl 
t. 23; Rumph. Amb. 4. t. 50. gea 
