Sapindus. 655 



coalitis planum commissurale parvum anguste ovale obtegentibus prope basin appen- 

 diculati, fusco-spadicei, glabri, nitidi, crustacei, pericarpio sat crasso saponinigero, 

 endocarpio pergameno laevi alutaceo basi dense ceterum laxe pilis crispatis gilvis 

 induto; semen e cocci basi erectum, elongate obovoideum, glabrum, testa ossea crassa 

 nitida nigra, intus plica embryonis radiculam excipiente instructa, extus lineis impressis 

 plicae respondentibus aliisque subparallelis exsculpta et prope basin leviter scrobicu- 

 lata, hilo breviter ovali. (Embryo non visus.) 



Arbor 7 — 8-metralis. Rami 5 — 6 mm crassi. Folia petiolo 10 cm longo adjecto ad 

 40 cm longa; foliola inferiora cum petiolulo 5 mm longo ca. 12 cm longa, 5,5 cm lata, 

 superiora 16 cm longa, 6 cm lata. Panicula 14 cm longa. Fructus cocci 3 — 3,5 cm longi, 

 2,2 cm lati, 1,8 cm crassi. Semen 2,4 cm longum, 1,7 cm latum, 1,5 cm crassum, hilo 

 2,5 mm longo. — Affinis Sapindo mukorossi Gaertn., fructus seminisque forma et magni- 

 tudine diversa. 



In Tonkin: Balansa n. 3430! (forets du mont Bavi, m. Nov. 1887, fruct.; Hb. 

 Drake). 



6. S. vitiensis A. Gray in Wilkes Explor. Exped. XV, Bot. I. (1854) 251!; Walp. 

 Ann. IV. (1857) 378; Seem. PI. Vit. in Bonpl. IX. (1861) 254, coli. n. 66!; id. Account 

 of a Mission to the Vitian Isl., App. III, List of Vit. PI. (1862) 434 et Fl. Vitiens. II. 

 (1865) 47; Radlk. in Sitzungsber. bayer. Akad. VIII. (1878) 265, 319, 321 et in Kechin- 

 ger, Bot.-zool. Ergebnisse v. d. Samoa-Ins. etc. in Denkschr. Wiener Ak. LXXXV. (1910) 

 305 (seors. impr. 131); Drake del Castillo, 111. Fl. Ins. Maris Pacif. Fase. VI. (1890) 143. 

 — Vulgo Maota in Upolu t. Rechinger (an recte?, anne ex confusione cum Dysoxylo 

 maota Reinecke?). — Arbor sat alta; rami teretes, striati, glabri, lenticelloso-verrucu- 

 losi, cortice cinereo; folia 3 — 4-juga, summave 2-juga, rhachi tereti bisulcata, foliola 

 ovato- vel lineari-lanceolata, parum inaequilatera, acuta vel sensim curvato-acuminata, 

 subfalcata, in petiolulos longiusculos contraeta vel superiora attenuata, membranacea,. 

 nervis lateralibus subtilibus oblique patulis utrinque prominulis, subtilissime reticu- 

 lato-venosa, glabra, supra nitidula, subtus opaca, viridula, cellulis epidermidis paginae 

 superioris sat amplis convexis, glandulis crebris (foveolis longioribus impressis) ornata; 

 panicula terminalis, ampla, ramis divaricatis rhachique adpresse flavescenti-pubescen- 

 tibus sat dense cymulas subsessiles gerentibus; alabastra subglobosa, brevissime pedi- 

 cellata; sepala 5, late ovata, petaloidea, margine glanduloso-ciliolata, extus basi ad- 

 presse puberula; petala 5, lanceolata, ciliolata, extus cum ungue usque ad mediam 

 laminam villosiuscula, intus supra unguem squamulis binis (si mavis lobulis baseos 

 inflexis) villosissimis instructa; discus regularis, glaber; stamina 8, filamenta infra 

 medium villosa, antherae breviter ellipticae, glabrae; germen trigono-ovatum, 3-lo- 

 culare, glabrum, in stylum brevem rectiusculum attenuatum; fructus abortu 2 — 1- 

 coecus, cocci medioeres, divaricati, longiuscule obovoidei, lateraliter compressiusculi, 

 basi in stipitem brevem oblique produeti, superne subcarinati et supra planum commis- 

 surale late lanceolatum (in fruetu 1-cocco declive) ^ apiculati, sicci rubro-fusci, nitidi, 

 tenuius crustacei, endocarpio chartaceo; semen obovoideum. 



Arbor 30 — 40-pedalis. Rami 3 — 4 mm crassi. Folia petiolo 3 — 8 cm longo adjecto 

 20 — 30 cm longa; foliola majora ca. 14 cm et ultra longa, 3,5 — 4 cm lata, plerumque 

 breviora angustioraque, petioluli 4 — 6 mm longi. Panicula 25 — 30 cm longa. Alabastra 

 diametro ca. 2,5 mm. Fructus 1,5 cm altus, cocci 1,8 cm longi, 1,2 cm lati. 



In insulis Vitiensibus et Samoensibus: Rieh et Brackenridge in Capt. 

 Wilkes Expl. Exped. 1838 — 1842! (in ins. Viti Levu ad flum. Rewa et in ins. Ovalau, 

 common on the leeward coasts, A. Gray 1. c; flor.; Hb. Kew., Paris.); Seemann n. 66! 

 (in ins. Moturiki, m. Jul. 1860, fruct.; in ins. Vanua Levu, Makuata coast, m. Dec. 1860, 

 fruct.; Hb. Kew., Berol., Vindob., DG, Boiss.); K. et L. Rechinger n. 22! (in ins. 

 Samoensi Upolu, frequens in silva primaeva versus oram, m. Jul. 1905, fruct.), n. 568! 

 (Upolu, prope Matootua, m. Jun. 1905, folium tantum, c. nom. vulg.: Maota). 



7. S. balicus Radlk. Sap. Holl.-Ind. (1877-1878) 7, 20, 67 (77, 90, 218) et in 



