Sarcopteryx. 1235 



Roxb.<< (reliquis ad Guioam squamosam Radlk. recensendis). — Frutex altus (t. Nau- 

 mann); rami teretes, cano-tomentelli (ut petioli), denique glabrescentes ; folia abrupte 

 pinnata, 3 — 5-juga; foliola ovato-lanceolata, apice longius acuminata, basi plus minus 

 abrupte in petiolulos contracta, integerrima, glabra, membranaceo-chartacea, dense 

 pellucido-punctata ; inflorescentiae axillares, folia aequantes, ramosae (saepe jambasi), 

 cano-tomentellae ; flores in cincinnos congesti, pedicellati; discus tumide annularis, 

 regularis, integer, glaber; petala squamis 2 cristatis instructa. 



Rami inflorescentias gereutes 2 — 3 mm crassi, cortice denique glabrato- fuscescente. 

 Folia 15 — 20 cm longa; foliola 7 — 14 cm aequantia, sicca subviridia (vix fuscescentia), 

 utrinque reticulato-venosa, nervis lateralibus ad marginem arcuato-anastomosantibus, 

 margine revoluta, inaequilatera, latere interiore majore. Bracteae bracteolaeque parvae, 

 subulatae; pedicelli 1 — 2 mm aequantes. Galyx 5-dentato-lobatus, 1 mm vix aequans, 

 extus pubescens. Petala suborbicularia, 1,5 mm longa; squamae certe duas petalorum 

 tertias aequantes, margine dense tomentosae, cristatae. Stamina 4 mm longa; filamenta 

 filiformia pubescentia; antherae pubescentes. Germen rudimentarium 3-angulare, 

 3-loculare, substipitatum, dense pilosum. 



In Moluccis et in Nova Guinea: Roxburghi coUector! (Chris. Smith?, cfr. 

 Euphorianthus longifolius et Jagerra serrata; ins. Nusa-laut prope Amboinam — sphalm. 

 Nassau-lant in Roxb. FL Ind. 1. c; specim. florig. ex Hb. Roxb. in Hb. Martins cum 

 Roxburghi scheda: >>Sapindus squamosus 2618<< et aliud simillimum in Hb. DG., a Lam- 

 bert sine nom. a. 1826 communicatum); Teysmann = Hb. Bogor. n. 14255! (Amboina, 

 Hila, fl.; comm. Scheffer); Treub n. 129! (Geram, Amahay a. 1893, fl.; comm. ex Hb. 

 Bogor.); Naumann n.57! 58! (N.-Guinea batava, in parte interiore sinus Mac Gluer- 

 Bay, ad margines silvarum, m. Jun. 1875, fl. et fr.; Hb. Berol.). 



Obs. Huc forsan recensenda »Caju Lape Lape (altera), s. Cicadaria, s. Caju Lapy<i Rumph. 

 Herb. Amb. (msc. circ. 1690) ed. Jo. Burm. III. (1743) 78 t. 50, uti ob fructum et corticem Sar- 

 copterygum substantia Saponino affini foetos concludi potest ex Rumphii nota: »Fructus cum cortice 

 obtusi et concavis rupibus intrusi pisces enecant«. Rumphii tabula 50 et praesertim fructus figura 

 sat respondere videntur, nee non speciei patria. Perperam certe Mischocarpi sp. dicta fuit a Blume 

 (Rumphia III. [1847] 167, obs.) et a Miquel (Fl. Ind. Bat. I. 2. [18591 567 sub Cupania fuscescens 

 Miq., i. e. Mischocarpus fuscescens Blume), perperam ob fructum depictum estipitatum; perperam 

 quoque a Teijsmann in lit. ad Hasskarl (cf. Hassk. Neuer Schlüssel zu Rumph.'s Hb. Amb. [1866] 

 53) Elodea Spach = Tridesmis Spach = Cratoxylon Blume {Hypericinear.)\ perperam denique a 

 Merrill (Interpret. Rumph. Hb. Amb. [1917] 334) Evonymus sp.?, perperam ob folia in Rumphii 

 tabula sparsa pinnata et ob fructum 3-locularem, 3-angularem, locuHs l-spermis. 



Fructus figura, sed solummodo si aucta habenda, sat bene quoque auxiliante foUorum des- 

 criptione, Guioam acutifoliam Radlk., ex Amboina notam, indicare potest; attamen substantiam 

 Saponino affinem et piscibus noxiam Guioae fructus et cortex vix continent. 



4. S. coriacea Radlk. Sap. HoU.-Ind. (1878) 98 (249) (charact. brev.), in Sitzungs- 

 ber. bayer. Akad. IX. (1879) 544 n. 631, p. 659 et Sap. Papuas, in Engler's Bot. Jahrb. 

 LVI. (1920) 296 (sine descr.), in Fedde, Repert. XX. (1924) 35 (descr.). — Frutex; 

 rami teretes petioli que rufescenti-tomentosi; folia abrupte pinnata, 1 — 4-juga; foliola 

 ovato-lanceolata, coriacea, sensim acuminata, basi in petiolulos breves abruptius 

 coarctata, integerrima, vix revoluta, rigide coriacea, nervis lateralibus paucis ante 

 marginem anastomosantibus, supra glabra, laevia, nitida, fusco-viridia, subtus pilis 

 teneris praesertim ad nervös laxe adspersa, cellulis secretoriis majusculis sat crebris 

 materia spumificante foetis persita (ut et cortex fructusque); thyrsi axillares, folia 

 subaequantes, cincinnigeri, cincinnis sessilibus paucifloris; flores parvi, reguläres; calyx 

 parvus, cupularis, 5-lobus, lobis deltoideis, praecociter apertus, hirtellus; petala 5, 

 latiuscule obovata, unguiculata, squamulis 2 spathulatis dorso cristatis dense fusco- 

 villosis aucta; discus tumide annularis, excavatus, hirtellus; stamina 8, filiformia, basi 

 puberula, antheris parvis; germen (floris (J) rudimentarium fusco-tomentellum; Capsula 

 3-locularis, ex obovato cuneata, apiculata, acute 3-carinata, carinis basin versus dilatatis 

 aliformibus, apice loculicide dehiscens, pericarpio extus carnoso, intus sclerenchymatico ; 



