420 XLIV. SAPiNDACEiE (bakeii). [PaullinU/. 



Also a plant of Madagascar and frequent in tropical America. The W. Indian P. si)hce- 

 rocarpa. Rich., is given as a native of Guinea by mistake in De Candolle's ' Prodromus.' 



3. ERIOGLOSSUM, Blume ; Bentli. et Hook. f. Gen. PL i. 396. 



Flowers irregular, polygamo-monascioiis. Sepals 5, unequal, roundish, 

 concave, the 2 outer ones smaller than the others, broadly imbricated, in 2 

 rows. Petals 4, with the place of the fifth vacant, unequal, unguiculate, 

 furnished with a hooded scale above the claw which is crested on the back. 

 Disk unilateral, lobed. Stamens 8, excentric, the filaments pilose, unequal, 

 the anthers slightly exserted. Ovary stalked, obovate-cordate, 3-lobed, 3- 

 celled, the style slender, the stigma obscurely 3-lobed. Ovules solitary, 

 ascending from the base of the cells. Fruit (not seen in the African species) 

 divided to the base into obtuse oblong or subcylindrical, indehiscent lobes. 

 Seeds oblong, exarillate, with a membranous testa. Embryo straight, the 

 cotyledons thick. — Erect trees. 



One or two other species, tropical Asiatic. 



1. E. cauliflorum, Guill. et Perr. FL Seneg. i. 118. t. 28. An erect 

 tree, 15-20 ft. high, with ferruginous young branches. Main petiole about 

 2 in. long, ferruginous like the branches. Leaves imparipinnate ; leaflets in 

 2-4 sessile, opposite or casually alternate pairs, ovate-oblong, 3-5 in. long 

 by less than half as broad, the point subobtuse, the edge entire, texture sub- 

 coriaceous, both sides glabrous, the upper pale green and shining. Flowers in 

 slender, sessile, many-flowered racemes from the old ^vood, 3-4 in. long, the 

 rachis feiTuginous-villose. Bracts ovate, equalling the grey-villose pedicels 

 and calyx, which are both about \ in. long. Petals equal, pink, scarcely ex- 

 ceeding the calyx, ovate-oblong, fimbriated, with a large crested scale. •♦ Sta- 

 mens exserted. Ovary globose-trigonous, w^oolly, 3-celled, the cells uniovulate. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet ! 



4. SCHMIDELIA, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. 396. 



Flowers polygamo-dioecious. Sepals four, in two opposite pairs, membra- 

 nous, cucullate, broadly imbricated, the two outer ones smaller than the 

 others. Petals 4, small or absent, glabrous or villose internally. Disk uni- 

 lateral, entire or lobed or with a gland opposite each petal. Stamens excentric 

 or subcentric, included or shortly exserted. Ovary excentric, single and 1- 

 celled or didymous and 2-celled, rarely 3-lobed and 3-celled ; style robust, 

 divided sometimes to the base into 2 or 3 lobes. Ovules solitary in the 

 cells, ascending from the base. Cocci of the fruit one or two, turbinate or 

 subglobose, dry and coriaceous or fleshy. Seeds erect, w^ith a short fleshy 

 arillus. Embryo curved, the cotyledons conduplicate. — Trees or shrubs with- 

 out tendrils. 



A large genns belting the world in the tropics, represented most abundantly in America. 

 Leaves digitately 3-foliolate. 



Leaves quite glabrous on both sides when mature. 

 Inflorescence copiously paniculate. 



