280 OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. SaphlduS. 



letted, oblong, with entire margins, and rounded emargi- 

 nate apex, smooth, of a shining deep-green, and downy 

 tinderneath. Petioles round, villous. Stipules none. Pa- 

 nicles terminal, crowded with numerous ramifications of 

 small, whitish, inodorous blossoms. Bractes small, cadu- 

 cous. Calyx of five, equal, oblong leaflets. Petah five, 

 equal, regularly disposed, oblong, or lanceolate, outside 

 hairy ; with two inflected woolly tufts on their margin 

 near the middle. As in most, if not all, the other species, 

 there is a notched, fleshy, hairy ring between the inser- 

 tion of the petals and stamina. Filaments eight, short, 

 woolly. Anthers two-lobed. Pericarp, drupes from one to 

 four, though three is the most common number, slightly 

 conjoined, singly, somewhat of an oblique-ovate shape, 

 with an elevation running from the base to the apex on 

 the outside, smooth until wrinkled by age in drying, lined 

 on the inside with a smooth, tough membrane, except 

 round the insertion of the seed, and there hairy, as in S. 

 detergens. Seeds, or nuts solitary, round, smooth, dark- 

 coloured, indeed almost black ; size of a large marrow-fat 

 pea, unilocular thick and exceedingly hard. 



The leaflets in this species are always very obtuse, 

 and generally emarginate ; this circumstance, together 

 with a calyx, and corol of five parts, induces me to think 

 Gcertner's Sapindus rigida, p. 341. 70./. 3, must be an- 

 other species. 



3. S. detergens R. 



Polygamous. Leaflets from four to five pair, subalternate 

 obliquely ovate-oblong, obtuse. Petioles simple. Flowers 

 panicled. Calyces, and corols of five, equal, regularly 

 disposed leaflets, and petals. 



Hind, and Beng. Reetha. 



Sans. C/rista. 



I have found this tree only in Bengal, though a native 



