Polygala."] polygalace^e. 45 



lateral racemes, often not above \ in. long. Bracts linear, deciduous ; inner 

 sepals full 3 lines long. Capsule shorter, orbicular, surrounded by a broad 

 wing. P. Loureiri, Gardn. and Champ, in Kew Journ. Bot. i. 242. 



Mount Victoria, Champion, also Wright. Frequent in the mountain districts of northern 

 India, and very nearly allied on the one hand to the P. Heyneana from the Peninsula, and 

 on the other to a species from Loochoo, which may be the P. japonica, Houtt. 



. 3. P. arillata, Ham. ; W. and Am. Prod. M. Penins. i. 39 ; Wight, 

 Ic. £.946. A tall bushy shrub, with weak half-climbing branches, slightly 

 pubescent, as well as the petioles and veins of the leaves. Leaves shortly 

 stalked, oblong, 4 to 6 in. long, mostly acute. Flowers yellow and showy in 

 terminal or leaf-opposed racemes, 3 or 4 in. or more long. Inner sepals 

 broadly oblong, oblique, 7 or 8 lines long. Keel-petal crested at the top. 

 Capsule broadly orbicular, slightly didymous, 6 lines diameter, coriaceous, 

 and prominently veined. Seeds globular, with a large carunculus. 



Rare in Hongkong, Champion, on Mount Parker, Wilford, also Wright. Abundant in 

 the hills of northern India, extending to the Peninsula and Ceylon. 



3. SECUBIDACA, Linn. 



Sepals 3 outer small, 2 inner much larger, erect and petal-like. Petals 2 

 upper ones narrow and connivent, 2 lateral small or wanting, the lowest and 

 outermost or keel concave, hooded, and usually 3-lobed at the top. Stamens 

 united above the middle with 8 obscurely bilocular anthers. Ovary 1-celled, 

 with 1 pendulous ovule. Style falcate, with an entire or 2-lobed, or dilated 

 stigma. Fruit an indehiscent samara, with a single seed in the base, winged 

 at the top, and often crested on the edge or sides. Seed without any carun- 

 culus. — Woody climbers. Leaves alternate, often large. Flowers in axillary 

 or terminal racemes, often branching into panicles. 



A considerable genus in tropical America, with two or perhaps three Asiatic or African 

 species. 



1. S. scandens, Ham. in Wall. Catal. n. 4195. A tall woody climber, 

 glabrous or very slightly pubescent on the young shoots. Leaves shortly 

 stalked, ovate-elliptical or oblong, 3 or 4 in. long. Flowers red, numerous, 

 on slender pedicels, in a broad terminal rather loose panicle. Inner sepals 

 about 3 lines long, keel nearly as long, 2 upper petals shorter, the lateral 

 ones wholly wanting. Fruit glabrous, with much-raised veins, and ending in 

 a wing full 2 in. long and \ in. broad ; the inner edge thickened, and notched 

 about j-way up by the scar of the stigma. 



In the woods of Little Hongkong, Wilford. Common in northern and eastern India. 



Order XXII. SAPINDACEiE. 



Sepals 4 or 5, imbricate in the bud, free or rarely united into a cup- 

 shaped calyx. Petals as many or one fewer, free, hypogynous, imbricate in 

 the bud, having often a scale on the inside inserted near the base. Stamens 

 5 to 10, or rarely up to 20, often 2 less than twice the number of sepals, in- 

 serted within, upon, or rarely outside, an hypogynous disk, which is sometimes 

 reduced to 1 or more glands. Anthers 2-celled, opening longitudinally. 

 .Ovary free, 3-celled, or rarely 2- or 4-celled. Ovules 1 or 2, or rarely more 



