676 XLIV. SAPINDACE^. (W. P. Hiern.) [Scyphopefalum. 



Ovary hairy, subeessile, 3-celled, entire ; ovules solitary ; style obsolete ; 

 stigma blunt. DISTRIB. A monotypic genus peculiar by the cup-shaped 

 petals. 



1. S. ramiflorum, Hiern ; leaflets 9 oblong obtuse or subacuminate 

 coriaceous glabrescent base somewhat narrowed shortly petioluled, panicles 

 from the old wood short, pedicels equalling or rather exceeding the 

 flowers. Sapindacea, Griff. Journ. 83. 



BIRMA ; hilly woods in the Hookhoom valley, Griffith (Kew distrib. 985). 



Branches reddish. Leaves 1 ft., pallid in the dry state ; petioles 2 in. ; leaflets 

 shining above, 4-8 by 1^~2 in. ; petiolules \ in., puberulent ; lateral veins about 16 on 

 each side of midrib, alternate. Panicles 2-3 in. diam. f 'lowers | in. wide, shortly 

 pubescent. Petals flesh-coloured. 



8. CUPANIA, Plum. 



Trees or tall shrubs. Leaves alternate, exstipulate in most cases abruptly 

 pinnate; leaflets entire, subcoriaceous. J'<i/f /V/' 1 * axillary and subterminal, 

 bracteoled. Flowers nearly regular, polygarno-dicecious. <"'////./ ;>-4-cleft 

 or sepals 5-4, roundish, concave, nearly valvate or imbricated in 2 rows. 

 Petals 5-4 or obsolete, witli or without 1-2 bilobed or entire scales at base 

 inside. Disk regular or unequally thicki-m-d. annular, glabrous, lK>hy. 

 jStamenx 7-10, rarely fewer, inserted within the disk, included or more 

 usually exserted. Ovary ovoid obovoid or obcordate, 2-4-celled, more 

 or less pubescent ; ovules solitary. Fruit capsular, usually loculicidal 

 obcordate or pyriform, 2-4-lobed or -sided and -celled ; lobes connate or 

 almost free and divaricate, sometimes compressed. Seeds subglobose or 

 oblong, more or less covered with an aril, exallmminous. Embryo thick, 

 curvea. DISTRIB. A rather large tropical genus of both Worlds ; 14 of 

 them are endemic in Australia and only 1 in tropical Africa. 



SECT. I. Fruit widely obcordate or 2-3-lobed. 



* Sepals 5. Lateral veins of leaflets arching, not parallel. 



1. C. glabrata, Knrz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xli. ii 303 (1872); 

 glabrescent leaflets 4-8 lanceolate or ovate-oblong Acuminate subcoriaceous 

 loosely but prominently reticulated base cuneate oblique, panicles racemose 

 or racemes simple, flowers pentamerous, petals shorter than the sepals 

 squaiqate. Sapindus squamosus, Koxb. Hort. Beng. 88 ; Fl. Ind. ii. 282 ; 

 Wall. Cat. 8097. Connaraceae 1, Wall. Cat. 8550. 



PEGU and MAUTABAN. PENAXG, G. Porter. DISTRIB. Malay Archipelago (Jtoxb.). 



A tree of 25-30 ft. Leaves abruptly pinnate, shortly petioled, quite glabrous and 

 shining ; leaflets 4-7 in. Flowers white ; pedicels T *j in. Outer sepali r \ in. Petals 

 ? 1 T in., glabrous outside, densely white-cottony inside. Ovary tawny-hairy. 



2. C. pallidula, Hiern ; young parts tawny-pubescent, rachis of leaves 

 not winged, leaflets 6-8 alternate or subopposite elliptic- or ovate-oblong 

 thinly coriaceous pallid inconspicuously veined base oblique cuneate, 

 flowers pentamerous, sepals much imbricated, petals with a large hairy 

 scale on each side of base, capsule 2-3-lobed stipitate. 



MALACCA, Griffith, Mawgay. 



A small tree. Branchltts terete, clothed with a very short tomentum. Leaves 

 6 12 in.; leaflets 2-5 by |-2 in., acuminate ; petiolules very short, tumid at base. 

 Flowers in. wide. Anthers small, glabrous, exserted. Capsule 4 i n -> lobes | in. 

 wide, nearly glabrate. Nearly related to C. regularis, Blume Humph, iii. 159, from 

 Sumatra and Borneo ; but differs from it by generally smaller leaves and a paler colour 



