440 XLV. ANACAKDiACEvE (oliver). [Sof'indeia. 



dons and a lateral ascending radicle." — Glabrous trees or shrubs. Leaves 

 alternate, unequally pinnate ; leaflets entire. Panicles terminal, axillary or 

 from the old wood,' often lax and divaricate, many-tiowered. 



A small genus, confined to tropical Africa and Madagascar. Of several of the species we 

 have only male flowers, and it is not improbable that those with iso- or diplostemonous sta- 

 mens, may prove generically distinct from the original S. madaffascaiiensis and S.juglandi- 

 folia. 



Leaves 1-5-7-1 1-foliolate, \-\h ft. long. 

 Mowers 4-5-merous. 



Ovary narrowed into style. (Stamens of $ fl. 10-20, 

 scattered on disk.) 

 Panicles terminal or axillary. Leaflets with an oblique 



spurious vein from the axils of the lateral nerves . . 1. S. juglandifolia. 

 Panicles lateral or from old wood, fascicled. Venation 



anastomosing, without the oblique vein as above ... 2. 6'. madagascariensis. 



Stigma sessile ( c? fl. unknown) ^. S., patens. 



Flowers 3-merous (? fl. unknown) 4. S ? trimera. 



Leaves multifoliolate, 2-4 ft. long. 



Leaflets distinctly acuminate. Flower 4-merous. Anthers .<« 



much shorter than filaments 5. S. Mannii. 



Leaflets with short acumen or apiculate. Flowers 5-merous. 



Anthers equalling the filament 6. «S. longifolia, 



1. S. juglandifolia, P?«wc^. iw ^e/-^. Z(!^z^. Wholly glabrous. Leaves 

 unequally pinnate ; leaflets 1-7-11 or more, coriaceous, usually alternate, pe- 

 tiolulate, oblong-elliptical, the terminal and upper rather larger tending to 

 obovate, obtuse with a short acumen or apiculus, entire, with a more or less 

 distinct coriaceous marginal nerve ; midrib and lateral nerves rather promi- 

 nent, the reticulation confluent into more or less distinct oblique veins from 

 the axils of the lateral nerves; l|-3|(-6) in. long, f-l:|(-3) in. broad; 

 petiolule 1-3 lines. Panicles terminal or subterminal, erect, exceeding the 

 leaves with successively shorter racemose lateral branches. Flowers \\-'^ 

 lines, subsessile or on short pedicels, 5-merous. Calyx cupuliform, shortly 

 and broadly 5-toothed. Petals oblong. Stamens of male flowers 15-20; 

 anthers linear-oblong, exceeding the filament. Ovary glabrous, narrowed 

 into the style ; stigma with 3-4 very short recurved adnate lobes. Ovule 

 inserted near the middle of the cell. — Dupuisia juglandifoUa, Rich, in Fl. 

 Seneg. i. 148. t. 38. Sapindus simj)lici/olius, Don, Gard. Diet. i. 666, ^de 

 Benth. in Fl. Nigrit. 286. 



Upper Guinea. River Nuiiez, Senegarabia ! 

 Lower Guinea. Congo, Burton ! 



Var. divaricata. Leaflets larger, up to 4-6 in. long ; panicles lax, widely divaricate, pedi- 

 cels ((?) slender, equalling or exceeding the flowers {S. heterophjUa, Hook. f. Fl. Nigrit. 

 280). — Sierra Leone, Bon ! Oldfield ! Bagroo river (a climbing shrub), Mann ! ., 



Oldfield says the fruit is eaten. The Congo specimens are altogether smaller and the 

 leaflets more numerous than in the Senegambian plant, but the diff'erences are such as station 

 mi^lit easily occasion. 1 have not seen miifoliolate specimens myself. 



This is probably the uudescribed Sorindeia africana (DC. Prod. ii. 80), referred to by R. 

 Brown in Tuckey's Congo, App. 431. 



2. S. madagascariensis, DC. Prod. ii. 80. A tree, often of large 

 size, wholly glabrous. Leaves unequally pinnate, more or less coriaceous ; 



