Sapiuin. monoecia monadelphia. 691 



to be small trees, about twenty feet bigh. Flowering time 

 from April to June. 



Trunk tolerably straight, about as thick as a man's thigh. 

 Bark smooth, of a light ash-colour. Branches few, spread- 

 ing ; young shoots ascend ing^, round and covered with minute 

 grains. Leaves alternate, long-petioled, broad-cordate, and 

 while the trees were young generally with three acute lobes, 

 margins scollop-serrate, when they first unfold a little mealy, 

 but by the time they are full-grown, smooth on both sides, 

 with a cluster of small, dark coloured glands at the base of 

 the upper side, about six inches each way. Petioles near- 

 ly as long as the leaves, round, smooth. Stipules very mi- 

 nute. Racemes terminal, nearly compound, indeed it may 

 often be called a panicle. Flowers pcdicelled, from one to 

 three or even more together ; male q.\\A female mixed, but the 

 former by far the most numerous, small, of a greenish yellow 

 colour. Bractes subulate, mealy. Male calyx four or 

 five-cleft; divisions expanding, broad-lanceolate, mealy on 

 the outside. Corol none. Jfectary, none visible. Filaments 

 very numerous, inserted into a hemispheric gland. An- 

 thers linear, twin, with a common obovate gland at the top. 

 Female calyx five-cleft. Corol none. JVectary a small flat 

 receptacle, with a crenulate margin on which the germ rests. 

 Germ two-lobed, clothed with stellate pubescence, two-cell- 

 ed, with one ovulum in each, attached to the top of the axis. 

 Style two-cleft ; divisions recurvate. Stigmas simple. Cap- 

 sule dicoccous, each consisting of two valves, which open 

 from the base. Seeds solitary,round, rugose, of a dark brown, 

 about the size of a grain of pepper, aflixed to the apex of a 

 slender central receptacle. 



SAPIUM. Schrcb. gen. N. 1469. 

 Male calyx from two to four-parted. Corol none. Sta- 

 mina from two to four. Female calyx from three to four- 

 parted. Corol none. Germ superior, from two to three- 



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