276 OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Schleichera. 



nate, from six to twelve inches long. Leaflets three or 

 four pair, subopposite, lanceolate, entire, firm, lucid, ob- 

 tusely acuminate, from four to eight inches long, and one 

 or two broad. Petioles round, smooth. Stipules none. 

 Panicles axillary, rather shorter than the leaves, crowded 

 with numerous ramifications, and clothed with soft down. 

 Flowers small, and very numerous, of a dull yellowish 

 green. Male. Calyx five-parted; segments broad-cordate, 

 a little hairy. Petals five, lanceolate, with two small, 

 smooth, incurved scales at the base, as in the Sapindi. 

 Nectary a tomlose hairy ring betw'een the insertions of tll'e 

 petals and filaments. Filaments seven or eight, the length 

 of the petals, or longer. Anthers two-Iobed. Germ an ob- 

 long gland. 



Hermaphrodite and Male flowers on a separate 

 tree. Calyx, corol, and nectary of the hermaphrodite, 

 like those of the male. Filaments shorter, but the an- 

 thers as in the male. Germ oblong, three-celled, with 

 one ovula in each, attached to the bottom of its cell. 

 Style scarcely any. Stigma of three recurved lobes. 

 Capsule the size of a black currant ; tapering into a 

 pedicel at the base, marked with three sutures on the out- 

 side, generally one-celled, three-valved ; the valves con- 

 taining little cells filled with a fragrant balsam. Seed 

 generally solitary, the size of a small pea, round, envelop- 

 ed in a thin, succulent aril. Integuments single, smooth, 

 brown. Perisperm none. Embryo curved, erect, green- 

 ish. Cotyledons unequal, one-curved, the other, viz. the 

 inferior one, doubled. Radicle conical, curved, inferior, 

 its apex touching one side of the umbilicus. 



The seed vessel of my other species. S. trijuga. Willd. 

 4. 1096. Koon. Gcert. sem. 2. 486. t. 180. does not open 

 spontaneously as in this, and sometimes contains three 

 seeds, enveloped in a thick, succulent, subacid, edible 

 aril. The proper integument is there also single ; nor is 



