L. Radlkofer. — Sapindaceae. 



accedente f arctus, suborbiculari-curvatus ; cotyledones convolutae, interiore transverse 

 bis plicata exterioris apicem amplectante, radicula hilo proxima, testae plicae immersa. 



Frutices vel arbores parvae, rigide erectae, inermes, ramis alternis. Folia in apice 

 ramulorum brevium comoso-conferta, breviora vel longiora, impari-pinnata, jugis ad 8, 

 breviter petiolata, petiolo rhachique anguste alatis; foliola integerrima, parva, 

 plerumque obtusa, sessilia vel subsessilia, sursum accrescentia, glaberrima vel subtus 

 molliter pubescentia. Inflorescentiae thyrsoideae, in cincinnulos laxos laterales exeuntes, 

 foliis subaequilongae. 



Species 2, altera Africae australis, altera Madagascariae incola. 



Genus floribus magnis speciosis »aesculinis«, calyce campanulato, petalis longo unguiculatis 

 crispato-squamatis nee non Capsula magna inflata irregulariter dehiscente purpurea inter Koel- 

 reuterieas insigne. 



1. E. undulata E. Meyer 1. c; (sphalm. Erythrophila undulata) Walk.-Arn. 1. c; 

 (par.)Walp. I.e.; Drege, I.e.; Harv. et Sond. 1. c; Walp.Ann. VII. 4. (1869) 623; Baill. 



I.e. 422, annot. 4; Radlk. I.e. (1895); Engl. 1. c. 

 {1921). — Arbor Ingae Brasilianae foliis Africana 

 tricoccos, fructu Mehenbethene Cortusi Clusio acce- 

 dente, ex Godice Gomptoniano Pluk. Phytogr.III. 

 (1692) tab. 144 f. 2, Almag. (1696) 46 pl. 2 (mihi 

 vix dubie huc recensenda). — Frutex rigidus, 

 glaberrimus, ramis alternis brevibus divaricatis 

 t'astigiato-foliosis, cortice cinereo. Folia alterna, 

 parva (inevoluta?) in ramorum apice conferta, 

 breviter petiolata, cum petiolo 4 — 6 cm longa, 

 impari-pinnata, 6 — 8-juga, rhachi petioloque 

 anguste interrupte alatis, parte alata oblonga 

 cuneata; foliola parva, subsessilia obovata mucro- 

 nulata, basi subacuta, integerrima, margine un- 

 dulata, reti venarum laxo subtus in facie livida 

 depresso conspicuo, glaberrima, membranacea, 

 6—7 mm longa, 4 mm lata. Thyrsi basi foliosi, 

 longitudine foliis subaequantes, laxe paniculati. 

 Pedicelli graciles, 5 — 6 mm longi, laxe glanduloso- 

 pilosi. Galyx campanulatus, spectabilis, ruber, 

 12 mm longus, lobis ad 5 mm latis, margine 

 glanduloso-ciliolatus, insuper extus praesertim 

 laxe pilosus. Petala longe unguiculata, ungue laxe 

 piloso, lamina e basi subcordata latissime obovata, margine crispula, basi crispato- 

 squamata, cum ungue ad 7 mm longo 12 mm longa, 4 mm lata, rubra. Stamina sursum 

 curvata, usque ad medium pilosa, 14 — 15 mm longa. Capsula inflata breviter stipitata, 



Fig. 40. Erythrophysa undulata E. Mey, 



Flos $ longitud. sectus (^/i). — See 



Radlkofer in Engl. u. Prantl, Nat 



Pflanzenfam. III. 5, 353 Eis?. 178. 



Obs. (a H. Harms adjecta). — Hutchinson in Kew Bulletin (1932) 149 synonymiam speciei 

 a Radlkofer nomine Erythrophysae undulatae salutatae accuratius exposuit: Erythrophysa alata 

 (Eckl. et Zeyh.) Hutchinson in Kew Bulletin (1933) 150.— Fagara alata Eckl. et Zeyh. Enum. (1835) 

 118. — Xanthoxylon ? alatum Steud. Nom. ed. 2. II. (1841) 796; Harvey in Harv. et Sonder, Fl. 

 capens. I. (1860) 446. — Erythrophila undulata Arn, in Hook. Journ. Bot. III. (1841) 258. — 

 Erythrophysa undulata E. Mey. in Droge, Zwei pflanzengeogr. Docum. (1843) 183; Harv. et Sond. 

 Fl. cap. I. (1860) 237. — Addita in Kew Bull. 1. c. icon inscriptione sequente: Copy of photograph of 

 painting of Erythrophysa a^afa (Eckl. et Zeyh.) Hutch., made for Governor van der Stel in Namaqua- 

 land, in 1685. Accedunt speciminibus supra enumeratis: Eckion et Zeyher n.923 (Clanwilliam 

 Division, near Louisfontein) ; Pearson n.6498 (Little Namaqualand,common on hillside above 

 Twee Rivieren; fr. Sept.); Pearson n.5624 (granite slopes on both sides of pass north of Garies; 

 fr. Dec); Bolus n.9486 (between Ookiep and Spektakel, about 2000 ft., fr. Aug., Sept.); Fox- 

 well (near Ookiep). 



