SAPINDACEAE 308 
1. SALACIA Linnaeus 
Climbing shrubs. Leaves opposite, exstipulate, entire or somewhat 
toothed. Flowers few to many, usually in axillary, clusters, more rarely 
cymose. Calyx small, 5-lobed. Petals 5, imbricate. Stamens usually 3, 
sometimes 2 or 4, inserted on the disk. Ovary conical, immersed in the disk, 
8-celled; style very short; stigma simple or 3-lobed; ovules 2 to 8 in each 
cell, in 1 or 2 series, inserted in the inner angle. Fruit fleshy, drupaceous, 
indehiscent. (A name of Greek mythology, the wife of Neptune.) 
Species about 85, in all tropical countries, 3 or 4 in the Philippines. 
1. S. prinoides (Willd.) DC. 
A climbing shrub reaching a height of 4 m or more, quite glabrous. 
Leaves oblong, shining, 8 to 16 cm long, entire or faintly and distantly 
toothed, acute or slightly acuminate, base usually acute. Cymes axillary, 
solitary, peduncled, dichotomous, few-flowered, 2.5 to 3 em long. Sepals 
very small. Petals 5, oblong, obtuse, yellow, about 3.5 mm long, spreading 
or refilexed. Stamens 8, rarely 4. .Fruit ovoid or globose, red, about 1 cm 
in diameter, 1-seeded. (FI. Filip. pl. 86.) 
In dry thickets opposite Fort McKinley, fl. Jan—Apr.; widely distributed 
in the Philippines. Indiasand Ceylon to Malaya. 
79. SAPINDACEAE (SOAPBERRY OR ALUPAG FAMILY) 
Shrubs or trees, or in Cardiospermum wiry, herbaceous, tendril-bearing 
vines. Leaves alternate, rarely opposite, simple, pinnate, 3-foliolate, or 
palmately compound, the leaflets entire or toothed, in the pinnate leaves 
alternate or opposite. Inflorescence terminal or axillary, racemose or 
panicled. Flowers small, regular, irregular, or unsymmetrical, sometimes 
polygamo-dioecious. Calyx 4- or 5-lobed, often unequal, the lobes or sepals 
imbricate or valvate. Petals free, equal or unequal, 4 or 5, rarely none, 
often bearded or with a scale at the base within. Disk annular or uni- 
lateral. Stamens 5 to 10, inserted inside or outside of the disk; filaments 
often pubescent, free. Ovary frequently excentric, entire or lobed, 1- to 
4-celled, cells 1- or 2-ovuled. Fruit capsular, dehiscent or indehiscent, or 
sometimes berry-like, entire or lobed. Seeds arillate or naked. 
Genera about 130, species more than 1,000, in all parts of the world, 
chiefly tropical, 25 genera and about 70 species in the Philippines. 
1. Tendril bearing herbaceous vines with biternate leaves, the capsules 
phn 0, AER Lo eS Ree IL a Sh ae eeere mene em nym Ne a 1. Cardiospermum 
1. Erect shrubs or trees. 
2. Fruit indehiscent. 
3. Shrubs with palmately 3- to 5-foliolate leaves................ 2. Allophylus 
8. Leaves pinnate. 
4, Basal leaflets large and stipule-like; shrubs with smooth, fleshy 
Fy eRe LARS ree i ce Li el, io 3 ila! ha 3. Otophora 
4. Basal leaflets not enlarged; trees with roughened or tubercled 
Fg e Biidet ha ett: Cee he et RR Rn Se A 3. Euphoria 
2. Fruit dehiscent. 
3. Capsules obovoid, 3-winged, 3-celled; leaves not glandular beneath. 
*5. Guioa 
3. Capsules of one or two, ellipsoid, terete lobes; leaves with prominent 
glands in the axils of the nerves on the lower surface.... 6. Arytera 
