ILLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN BOTANY. 139 
H. mS Sota carpels surrounded with an orbicular The fruit of our HW. indica is also unknown, anda 
thin transparent scarious reticulated wing. ee from Roxburgh’s plant in having the dbpeder sur- 
In the two first the panicles are des bed as large, face of the Pere rather thickly clothed with soft ap- 
compound and closhed with appressed hairs, in the last pressed pubescence, not glabrous, it may, when the fruit 
they are diffuse, glabrous, with few flowers, on long very is found prove ‘ithier Roxbur gh’s H. nutans, or a dis- 
slender jointed pedicels. tinct digi, but for the present must remain undeter- 
mine 
H. cordata, appears quite distinct from all these, but 
the fruit is as yet unknown. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE 49. 
}. Malpighia ? heteranthera, (R. W.) natural sise. 7. The ovary cut transversely near the apex. 
2, A partially dissected flower showing the glands of 8. A mature fruit, zatural size 
the sepals, a petal with its claw, and the unequal sta- 9. The same, one of the carpels cut transversely, 
mens and styles. 10. A seed removed “ freed from its pulp, to show 
he same foreibly opened to show the union of the — the rough reticulated test 
filaments, and more clearly the ovary, styles and ll. The same apened to show the position of the 
see ts 
| Back — front views of a small anther. . Foliaceous cotyledons and the radicle. 
. The same of a larg “ Aleaf—all, with the exceptions mentioned, more or 
6. eal 1-cell "opened, to show the pendulous ess aigaied 
incurved solitary ovule 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE 50. 
1. Hiptage Madablota, (Geert.) natural size. 6. Style and stigma detached, and more highly mag- 
2. Anexpanded flower, the petals removed to show nified. 
the theo i Seg of the our parts. 7. Ovary cut vertically. 
. The petals. 8. Cut peeing 3-celled. 
4. Sections back and front views. 9. A full grown fruit, rer gr siz 
5. Ovary, style and stigma. 0. Cut transversely— the ine mentioned, 
all more or less posi ny 
XXXVIT.—SAPINDACEA. 
This is a large and complex order presenting among its members slender climbing herbs, 
small shrubs, and large umbrageous trees. The leaves are alternate, simple, or compound ; in 
the latter case, either ternate, or biternate, more frequently abruptly pinnate. The flowers 
equally vary, being either uni or bi-sexual, or frequently presenting both forms on the sam 
tree, polygamous, The inflorescence is either racemose or panicled, the flowers usually small, 
pay nearly inconspicuous, generally white, or pale greenish white, more rarely purplish 
eoloure 
_ Calyx free of 4-5 distinct or slightly cohering sepals, imbricated in exstivation. Petals 
phage as many as the a ye alee with thet: sometimes fewer by the abortion Of. one, 
the mere SS aned betes the petals and stamens. Stamens 8-10 ina ue series, ‘cated 
on the disk or receptacle between the glands and ovary; filaments free, anthers incumbent, 
2-celled, bursting longitudinally, introrse, when polygamous, the pistil of the male flower is 
— ay or wanting. In pies fe male the ovary is ue 3, Bislez 2, or aaa 
Belt, more cee a Ai eutie aed de Scede aul arillate, aie none. Embryo 
usually curved, or spirally eet rarely straight; radicle pantie = towards the hilum. ae r 
ledons sometimes conferruminat 
te pe rinitigs. The relationship of this «ith the three reais eA sat be evident from 
‘ reference to se protest page sae where it is gerns as a member of the class Mal- 
as é . ; but as these appear a 
sii cane from cs sed 
