1002 L. Radlkofer. — Sapindaceae. 



tem perbrevem contractus, extus et intus glaber; semen globosum, arillo laevi 

 suffultum. 



Frutex 10-pedalis; rami paniculigeri 3 mm crassi. Folia petiolo 3 — 5 cm longo 

 adjecto 12 — 25 cm longa; foliola cum petiolulis 3 — 4 mm longis 8 — 16 cm longa, 3,5 — 

 5,5 cm lata. Paniculae 10 — 16 cm longae; pedicelli 4—5 mm longi. Fructus 1 cm alti, 

 1,2 cm lati. Semina diametro 5 mm. 



In Nova Guinea britannica:W. Fitzger aldn. 23! (anlegendum 25?; Dogura, 

 m. Sept. 1895, flor.), n. 28! (Yampota.a. 1895; flor.), n. 30! (Mulawa, a. 1895; fruct.; 

 comm. Ferd. v. Müll.). 



Species ex ordine excludenda. 



Alectryon? canescens DC. Prodi*. I. (1824) 617 n. 2!; Don, Gen. Syst. I. (1831) 

 675 = Terminalia circumalata Ferd. Müll, (ex ipso in Plants collected in Gapric. W. 

 Austr. by H. S. King in Trans. Roy. Soc. Victor. XXIII. (1887) 54 ( »verisimiliter 

 collecta in Capt. Baudin's Exped. in ora occid.« nee, uti DG. profert, in ora orientali). 



63. Podonephelium Baiii. 



Podonephelium Baill. Hist. pl. V. (1874) 351, 396; Radlk. Sap. Holl.-Ind. (1877) 

 50 (120), Sitzungsber. bayer. Akad. XX. (1890) 254-255, 289 et in Engl. u. Prantl, 

 Nat. Pflanzenfam. III. 5. (1895) 333; Guillaumin in Bull. Soc. bot. France LXXIX. 

 (1932) 337 (cum clavi specierum). — Ratonia sp., Cupania sp., cf. lit. spec. 



Flores (illis Alectryonis persimiles) spurie polygami, (t. Baillon) dioiei, reguläres, 

 medioeres. Galyx acetabuliformis, repando-4 — 7-denticulatus, dentibus acutis valvatis, 

 extus, ut et dentes intus, pilis crispulis ferrugineo-tomentellus, intus glaber. Petala 0. 

 Discus completus, crateriformis, repando 8-crenatus, margine interiore (superiore) 

 staminum insertione foveolatus, tomentellus, extus glaber. Stamina (5— )8, ad disci 

 marginem interiorem circa pistilli rudimentum inserta, denique (floris <§) exserta; 

 filamenta subulato-filiformia, glabra; antherae subclavatae, glabrae; pollinis granula 

 ellipsoidea, trisulcata, triporosa. Germen (floris <§ rudimentarium) in disci centro 

 3-loculare, 3-sulcatum, loculis semiobeordatis et ipsis dorso sulcatis, pilis setulosis 

 crispulis dense ferrugineo-tomentellis, stipitatum, stipite crassiusculo quam germen 

 ipsum longiore trisulcato tomentello; Stylus inter loculos profunde 3-fidus, lobis dorsali- 

 bus recurvatis extus tomentellis intus stigmatosis; gemmulae in loculis solitariae, 

 oblique ascendentes, apotropae, campylotropae, micropyle ad medium extera. Fructus 

 abortu plerumque 1-coccus, raro 2-coccus, coccis abortivis appendiculatus, longiuscule 

 stipitatus stipite recto vel paullum curvato, coccis subglobosis apice depressis dorso 

 sulco levi notatis, laevibus vel (in forma 2. P. Homei R.) juxta sulcum utrinque nodoso- 

 tuberculatis, (ut in Alectryone) subtransversim circumscisse dehiscentibus, corticoso- 

 crustaeeis ferrugineo- vel rufo-tomentellis denique glabratis, pericarpio sat crasso intus 

 glaberrimo. Semen coeco conforme, subglobosum, testa crustacea arillo laevi adnato 

 praeter aream dorsalem (testae plicae respondentem) triangulärem (angulo acutiore 

 micropylen attingentem) spadiceam nitidissimam obteeta, arillo deraso albida. Embryo 

 curvatus, notorrhizus; cotyledones ineurvae, exterior interiorem transversim con- 

 duplicatam amplectens, oleo et aleuro f oetae nee non in cellulis propriis substantia 

 quadam tannino affini; radicula brevis, plica testae dorsali profunda excepta. 



Arbores parvae. Rami teretes, nodulosi, ^ profunde sulcati, cinnamomeo-pulveru- 

 lento-tomentelli, denique glabrescentes cortice cinerascente. Folia 3 — 6-juga, ad sum- 

 mos ramulos conferta, sparsa, abrupte pinnata, petiolata, petiolo teretiusculo supra 

 complanato striato basi valde incrassato; foliola alterna vel subopposita, conspicue 

 petiolulata vel subsessilia, nunc valde inaequilatera (P. Homei), e basi obliqua subovata 

 falciformia (latere interiore longiore latioreque), nunc (P. concolor) parum inaequilatera, 

 lanceolato-oblonga, subcoriacea vel chartacea, nervis lateralibus approximatis oblique 

 patentibus ante marginem furcato-anastomosantibus subtus prominentibus, utrinque 



