Sapindus. octandria monogynia. 279 



numerous, small, short-pedicelled, dull white. Calyx 

 five- leaved ; leaflets oval, villous on the outside, and mar- 

 gin. Petals five, lanceolar, equally woolly over the whole 

 of the inside, and without any appearance of the nec- 

 tarial scales on the base, or margin, as in all the other 

 species described by me, clothed on the outside with ap- 

 pressed brown hairs. Filaments woolly, shorter than the 

 germ, and inserted between it and the five-lobed, hairy re- 

 ceptacle. Germ three-lobed, very hairy, three- celled, with 

 one ovula in each, attached to the bottom of the axis. Style 

 simple. Stigma three-toothed. Berries three, united, 

 singly, the size of a cherry, when ripe soft, and of a yel- 

 lowish-green colour, with a few brown hairs scattered 

 over them ; one-celled. Seed round-obovate. Integuments 

 two, the exterior one thick, tough and hard, smooth and 

 black ; the inner one membranaceous. Perisperm none. 

 Embryo conform to the seed, uncinate. Cotyledons un- 

 equal, thick, firm, fleshy, spirally incurvate, colored with 

 a tinge of green. Radicle inferior, linear, lodged at the 

 base of the seed, pointing to the lower and inner angle. 



The berries are saponaceous, and used with those of 

 the other species of the same nature. 



2. S. emarginatus. Vahl. symh. 3. 54. Willd. 2. 469. 



Leaflets two or three pair, oblong, retuse, or emar- 

 giriate. Pamc^es terminal. Ca///x and Coro/ of five equal, 

 regularly disposed leaflets, and petals, with a woolly scale 

 on each side of the latter. 



Beng, Bwra-reetha. 



Teling. Konkoodoo. 



A handsome, middling-sized tree, with a short trunk, 

 and very large, dense, spreading head, decorated with 

 beautiful thick, deep green foliage the whole year. Floiu- 

 ering time in Bengal, October ; the seeds ripen in April. 



Leaves alternate, abruptly pinnate, from six to ten inch- 

 es long. Leaflets generally two pair, opposite, short-petio- 



