134- SAPINDACEAE 339 



Petals with an almost free, notched scale. Disc free. Filaments glabrous. 

 Fruit almost globose ; pericarp crustaceous or woody, hispid on the 

 outside, woolly within. — Species 3. West Africa. Yielding timber. 



Eriocoelum Hook. fil. 



27. (23.) Sepals narrowly imbricate in bud 28 



Sepals broadly imbricate in bud 33 



28. Stamens 5. Petals hooded, without scales. Disc 5-lobed. Ovary 2- 



celled. Fruit indehiscent, with a crustaceous pericarp. Seeds with an 



aril. Leaves with numerous leaflets. Inflorescences arising from th^' 



older parts of the stem. — Species i. Madagascar. Pseudopteris Baill. 



Stamens 6 — 10 29 



29. Stamens 6 — 7. Petals hairy, with i — 2 scales adnate by their edges. 



Ovar}' 2-celled. Fruit compressed, dehiscent, with a cartilagineous 

 endocarp. Seeds with an adnate aril. Leaves with 4 — 11 pairs of 

 leaflets. Flowers in terminal panicles. — - Species 3. Central Africa. 



Aporrhiza Radlk. 

 Stamens 8—10 30 



30. Ovary 2-celled. Fruit indehiscent. Stamens 8 31 



Ovary 3-celled. Fruit tardily dehiscent. Stamens 8 — 10. Petals fur- 

 nished at the base with a scale adnate at each side 32 



31. Leaflets in 3 — 4 pairs, toothed, pellucidly dotted, beset with scaly glands 



when young. Fruit 2-lobed, with a fleshy pericarp. Seeds without an 

 aril. — Species i. South Africa (Cape Colony). (Under Sapindus L.) 



Smelophyllum Ivadlk. 

 Leaflets in 5 pairs, entire, beset with stellate hairs. Fruit with a crust- 

 aceous pericarp. Seeds with a free aril. — Species i [E. Lon^ana 

 Lam.). Cultivated in the tropics and in Egypt and naturahzed in the 

 Mascarene Islands. Yields timber and edible fruits. (Under Nephelium 

 L.) Euphoria Commers. 



32. Petals saccate at the base. Stamens 8, rarely 10. Fruit large, blunth' 



3-angled. Seeds enveloped at the base by an adnate aril. — Species 

 3. West Africa. The aril is poisonous when unripe or over-ripe, but 

 edible when ripe, and used for preparing oil and medicaments ; from the 

 fragrant flowers an aromatic Hquid is prepared. " Akee-tree." (Under 



Cnpania L.) Blighia Koen. 



Petals funnel-shaped. Stamens 10. Seeds enclosed in the fleshy testa. 

 Leaflets in 4 — 6 pairs, toothed. — Species 3. West Africa. 



Lychnodiscus Radlk. 



33. {zy.) Stamens 5. Ovary 2-celled. Fruit compressed, dehiscent, with 



a sponge}' pericarp. Seeds with a free aril. — Species i. ^ladagascar. 



Tinopsis Radlk. 

 Stamens 8 — 24 34 



34. Stamens 8 35 



Stamens 10 — 24. Seeds without an aril 42 



