78 ICONES PLANTARUM. 
Prate 1097. 
MAJIDEA ZANGUEBARICA, Kirk. 
SAPINDACER, § SAPINDEA. 
cata. Petala 4, esquamata, quinti sede vacua, ovalia v. oblanceolata, basi 
gustata, sepalis b ¢.: discus unilateralis, brevissimus, 
undulatus. Stamina 8, intra discum inserta, libera ; filamenta filiformia 
glabra, exserta; anther ellipsoide, inappendiculate, basi ari: Yu- 
g . fem. : yuctus lateraliter trilo- 
batus, coriaceus, loculicide 3-valvis, valvis medio seminiferis. Semina in loculis 
solitaria (v. gemina), exalbuminosa, testa crustacea i ubescente, hilo 
minuto exarillato ; embryo crassus, cotyledonibus carnosis contorto-plicatis. 
— Arbor verisimiliter. Folia alterna, pinnata, foliolis alternis glabrescentibus. 
Flores in paniculas terminales dispositi. 
M. Zanguebarica, Kirk, sp. unica. 
Has. Dar Salam, Zanzibar, 1869, Dr. Kirk. 
teretes, cortice cinerascente lenticellato obducti, ramulis foliiferis 
apicem versus puberulis mox glabris. Folia 5-10-foliolata, primum puberula, 
se 
ellipsoideis inappendiculatis dorso affixis bilocularibus, longitudinaliter dehis- 
centibus. Fructus tenuiter coriaceus, inflatus, trigonus, in valvis 3 extus pe 
berulis intus rubescentibus cireumscriptione late obovatis 14-11 poll. longis 
latisque dehiscens. Semina subglobosa, nigra, molliter velutina, }—-2 poll. diam. 
ly allied to Cossigyna, from which it differs in number of stamens and 
absence of persistent axis after separation of the fruit-valves; to Lrythro- 
Pphysa, differing in unisexual flowers, habit, and fruit, if the latter be correctly 
described in Erythrophysa with indehiscent lobes ; and to Kelreuteria, 10 
which, besides the difference in habit, the sepals are valvate and the petals 
squamigerous.—D. OLiver. 
Fig. 1. Staminate flower. 2. Rudiment of ovary and unilateral disk of same. 
* After the late Sultan of Zanzibar. 
