296 L. Radlkofer. — Sapindaceae. 



semen (immaturum tantum suppetebat) totum praeter aream dorsalem parvam ovatam 

 arillo obtectum. 



Rami thyrsigeri diametro 3,5 — 5 mm. Folia 20 — 30 cm longa, fere totidem lata; 

 foliola 10—14 cm longa (lateralia infima plerumque multo minora), sicca e viridi plus 

 minus fuscescentia ; petiolus communis 4 — 12 cm longus, teretiusculus, glaber, supra 

 bisulcatus; rhacheos alae in segmento supremo 1 — 2,5 mm utrinque latae; stipulae fere 

 2 cm longae, 1 cm latae, extus pulverulento-tomentellae. Thyrsi sessiles vel pedunculati, 

 rhachi diametro 1,5 — 3 mm, tomento brevissimo fusco-ferrugineo induti, laxius cin- 

 cinnigeri; bracteae 3 — 4 mm longae; pedicelli breves. Flores albi (Richard). Sepala 

 duo exteriora dimidiam interiorum partem aequantia, interiora coriacea, circ. 4 mm 

 longa. Petala ovalia; squamae cristisVadjectis duas petalorum tertias aequantes, 

 margine villosae, superiores crista breviore emarginata vel obcordata glabra appen- 

 diceque deflexa barbata dimidiam squamae partem aequante instructae. Tori glandulae 

 magnae, late ovatae, glabrae, fusco-nigrae. Staminum filamenta complanata, pilis 

 albidulis superne longioribus dense vestita; antherae glabrae. Capsula miniata (Bur- 

 chell), stipite 8 — 9 mm longo adjecto 1,5 — 2 cm longa. 



In Guiana gallica nee non in Brasiliae civit. Parä: L. Cl. Richard! (in sylvia 

 fluvii Parä; Hb. Franquev.); idem? (Parä; Hb. Paris.); Burchell n. 9622! (prope 

 urbem Parä; Hb. Hook., Mart.); idem n. 9979?! 9987 — 3?! (ibid. m. Dec. 1829! anne 

 haec speeimina ad Pauli, pachycarpam Benth. recensenda, ulterius inquirendum, cum 

 scribenti mihi ad manus non sint). 



68. P. paehycarpa Benth. in Hook. Journ. Bot. III. (1851) 196; Walp. Ann. 

 IV. (1857) 377; Radlk. Monogr. Serj. (1874 — 1875) 74 n. 110 etc., Monogr. Pauli. 

 (1895 — 1896) 228 n. 54 et in Fl. Bras. XIII. 3. (Fase. 122, 1897) 385 n. 31. — Scandens, 

 fruticosa; rami subtrilateri vel subteretes, juniores sufferrugineo-tomentelli, mox 

 glabrati, lenticellosi; corpus lignosum simplex; folia impari-pinnata, trijuga, jugo 

 infimo ternato; foliola nunc subelliptica, nunc oblonga, in acumen obtusum protraeta, 

 basi terminale longiuscule attenuatum, lateralia acutiuscula vel subrotundata, omnia 

 sessilia, remote serrato-dentata, raro subintegerrima, coriaceo-chartacea, transversim 

 venosa, utrinque glabra et subopaca, glandulis microscopicis subscutatis foveolis 

 immersis crebris obsita, punetis lineolisque pellucidis sat crebris notata, reti utriculorum 

 latieiferorum interrupto subpellucido obscurove subtus instrueta, staurenehymate fibris 

 percurso, epidermide non mucigera; petiolus rhachisque alata; stipularum cicatrices 

 latae, semiamplexicaules; thyrsi solitarii vel paniculatim congesti, robustiores, cincinnis 

 longius breviusve stipitatis plus minus contractis; bracteae bracteolaeque majores; 

 flores magni, sepalis canescenti-tomentellis, 3. et 5. fere usque ad apicem connatis; 

 Capsula globosa, longius breviusve stipitata, extus velutino-tomentella, intus pubescens, 

 pericarpio crasso; semen subtrigonum vel subhemisphaericum, totum praeter aream 

 dorsalem parvam subrhombeam vel orbicularem spadiceam nitidam (perperam a 

 Benth. 1. c. »hilum« dietam) arillo obtectum. 



Rami thyrsigeri diametro 3— 5 mm. Folia 15 — 40 cm longa, fere totidem lata; 

 foliola 6— 20 cm longa (lateralia infima minora), sicca subviridia vel fuscescentia, 

 petiolus communis 3—12 cm longus, rhacheos segmenta plus dimidio breviora, petioli 

 rhacheosque alae 1 — 2 mm utrinque latae. Thyrsi sessiles vel pedunculati, 15 — 30 cm 

 longi, tomentelli, laxe cincinnigeri ; bracteae elliptico-lanceolatae, 4 — 6 mm longae; 

 pedicelli breves. Flores albi (Spruce). Sepala duo exteriora dimidiam interiorum 

 partem aequantia, interiora 5 mm longa, subcoriacea. Petala 7 mm longa, ovali-oblonga ; 

 squamae cristis adjeetis petala aequantes, margine villosae, superiores crista longiore 

 circ. tertiam squamae partem aequante profunde bifida appendiceque deflexa vix 

 mediam squamae partem attingente barbata instructae. Tori glandulae sat magnae, 

 ovatae, superne glabrae, fuseidulae. Staminum filamenta compressiuscula, pilis albis 

 longioribus dense vestita; antherae glabrae. Capsula rubieunda (Spruce), stipite 



