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06 Sapindaceee'. [Sapindus. 



bearing trees are conspicuously difierent. Thwaites' A^. fuscatum was 

 described from male fl. only, and his 6'. unijugiis from bisexual ones. 



6. SAPINDUS, L. 



Trees or shrubs; 1. pinnate, rarely simple; fl. poiyg^amous, 



in terminal or axillary panicles ; sep. 5, much imbricate ; 



pet. 5, with or without a scale within ; disk annular, fleshy, 



usually lobed ; stam. 8 or 7, inserted within the disk ; ov. 



2- or 3-celled, with I erect ovule in each cell, 2- or 3-lobed, 



stigma small, lobed ; fruit of 1-3 nearly distinct, indehiscent, 



fleshy cocci ; seed large, with or without an aril, testa hard 



or membranous, cotyledons thick. — Sp. about 40 ; 7 in 



FL B. Ind. 



This genus requires division into several. 



Pet. without a scale. 

 Lflts. 4-6. 



Lflts. shortly acuminate i. S. laurifolius. 



Lflts. rounded, emarginate . . . . 2. S. emarginatus. 

 Pet. with a scale. 



Lflts. 2 3. S. BIFOLIATUS. 



Lflts. 8-14 4. S. ERECTUS. 



Leaves simple 5. S. Thwaitesii. 



I. S. laurifolius, Vahl, Symb. iii. 54 (1794). Kaha-penela, S. 



Moon Cat. 32. Thw. Enum. 55. C. P. 2545. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 682 (5. trifoliatics). Rheede, Hort. Mai. iv. t. 19. 



A tree, young parts pubescent ; 1. pinnate, long-stalked, 

 rachis 6-10 in., rigid, pubescent, lflts. 4-6, on very short, 

 thick, pubescent stalks, sub-opposite, 5-7 in., lanceolate or 

 oval-lanceolate, acute at base, shortly acuminate, obtuse, 

 entire, glabrous above, softly and shortly hairy beneath ; 

 fl. small, numerous, on short ped,, in an erect, much-branched, 

 dense, pyramidal, terminal, more or less pubescent panicle ; 

 sep. silky, obtuse, 2 outer much smaller ; pet. linear-oblong, 

 erect, longer than sep.; stam. 8, fil. hairy throughout ; ov. very 

 hairy; ripe fr. not seen. 



Moist low country ; rather common. Panadura (Moon). Fl. July, 

 November ; white, slightly sweet-scented. 



Also in Southern India. 



Hiern, in Fl. Brit. Ind., gives the name S. trifoliatus^ L. to this and 

 the next combined. The name is an absurd one, as neither plant is 

 trifoliate. Moreover, the plant so called by Linn;v;us is the 'Conghas' of 

 Hermann, which, as already noticed, is ScJilcichera frijietj^a. l,innii;us 

 afterwards added a quotation of Rhcede's figure, and hence his name has 

 got transferred to the present species; but it should not be maintained. 



