Filicium. 1427 



c. nota >>ad Sapindaceas pertinet, cf. Radlk. in Sitzungsber. bayer. Akad. [1879] 591<<); 

 Trimen, Handb. Fl. Ceylon I. (1893) 240 [Burserac); Engl. Pflanzenwelt Afr. III. 2. 

 1921) 268, 287 {Sapindac). — Jurighas (nom. vernacul.) P. Herrn. (1717), cfr. F. deci- 

 piens. — Rhus sp. Wight et Arn. Prodr. Fl. Penins. Ind. I. (1834) 172; Wight, lUustr. 

 I. (1840) 186 t. 75. — Pteridophyllum, non Sieb, et Zuec, Thwaites in Hook. Kew. 

 Journ. VI. (1854) 65 t. 1 [Anacardiac], VII. (1855) 273 [Sapindac.) et Enum. PI. Zeyl. 

 (1858) 59 [Sapindac). — Jurighas O. Kuntze, Revis. Gen. I. (1891) 144. 



Flores spurie polygami, reguläres, parvi. Sepala 5, ovata, parum tegentia, persi- 

 stentia. Petala 5, parva, exunguiculata. Discus completus, petallaris, lana alba crispa 

 dense indutus. Stamina 5, in sulcis intra discum inserta, glaberrima, calycem superantia, 

 antheris introrsis; in flore 9 rudimentaria. Germen subglobosum, 2-loculare, loculis 

 gemmulam singulam ex loculi apice pendulam campylotropam epitropam foventibus, 

 stylo brevi curvato, lineis stigmatosis suturalibus ad inferum tertium decurrentibus. 

 Fructus ellipsoideus, drupaceus, sarcocarpio tenui, endocarpio membranaceo, 1 — 2- 

 locularis. Semina 1 — 2, testa coriaceo-membranacea, stratis internis plicaeformibus 

 inter cotyledonum plicas intrusis. Embryo curvatus, cotyledonibus foliaceis irregu- 

 lariter incisis, transverse superpositis et crebre irregulariter plicatis, amylo tenui 

 nee non substantia saponino affini farctis, radicula dorsali mediocri, versus micropy- 

 lem ascendente, plica testae excepta. 



Arbores mediocres (vel minores?), cortice ut et folia floresque secreto a glandulis 

 lepidiformibus immersis emisso vernicoso-resinoso. Folia abrupte pinnata, 5 — 8-juga 

 vel 1-juga, foliolis oppositis vel suboppositis vel alternantibus, foliolo terminali genuino 

 nuUo, rhachi alata; foliola lineari-oblonga vel obovata, integerrima, saepius apice 

 emarginata, basi obliqua sessilia. Paniculae axillares et terminales in apice ramulorum 

 congestae, folia vix superantes vel breviores, ramosae, ramis in polychasia vel dichasia 

 saepius flore ^ terminata vel cincinnos exeuntibus. 



Species 3 africanae, quarum una {F. decipiens) etiam in peninsulae Indiae orientalis 

 montibus australioribus et in insula Geylania divulgata, nee non in insulis Fidji obvia. 

 Accedit species 1 nuperrime in Somalia detecta, auctori ignota. 



Conspectus specierum. 



A. Folia 5 — 8-juga. • 



a. Arbor; foliola lineari-oblonga, basi apiceque aequaliter 



angustata, coriacea \. F. decipiens. 



b. Frutex; foliola angustiora, longiora, supra medium an- 

 gustata (nee basi et apice aequilata), chartacea 2. F. elongatum. 



B. Folia 1-juga 3. F. abbreviatum. 



1. F. decipiens (Wight et Arn.) Thwait. 1. c. (1864); Beddome, Anamally PI. in 

 Transact. Linn. Soc. XXV. (1866) 212; Teysm. et Binn. Gat. Hort. Bogor. (1866) 393 

 (sph. Felicium, inier Burserac.); Beddome, 1. c. (1869); Baillon, 1. c; A. W. Bennett, 

 1. c; Radlk. 1. c. (1890, 1895); Trimen, 1. c. (1893); Gooke, Fl. Pres. Bombay (1902) 

 263 (»cult. at Poona<<); Brandis, Indian Trees (1906) 188 f. 85; Backer, Fl. Batav. 

 I. (1907) 356; Koord. Exk.-Fl. Java II. (1912) 544. - Jurighas (nom. vernacul.) P.Herm. 

 Mus. zeyl. (1717 ; Ed. II. 1726) 5 : Hb. Herrn. Vol. I. Fol. 24, et Folium arboris zeylanicae 

 Maniglia dictae latifoliae et . . . angustifoliae Mus. zeyl. p. 35: Hb. Herm. Vol. III, Fol. 

 36 et 39; [Jurighas) L. Fl. zeyl. (1747) 206 n. 443 (inter dubias c. cit. Herm. Mus. z. 

 p. 5 et c. syn. Herm. 1. c. 35 et syn. Burm. seq. 25, 29, 99, adjecta obs. >>non Filix<<); 

 cf. Trimen in Journ. Linn. Soc. XXIV. (1887) 154. — Arbor Jurighas dicta Jo. Burm. 

 Thes. zeyl. (1737) 25. — Arbor zeylanica Maniglia dicta latifolia et .... angustifolia 

 id. ibid, 29. — Filix zeylanica arborescens, pinnis alternis, longis, integris, in apice 

 bifidis, caule membranis aucto id. ibid. 99 t. 45, excl. syn. Plum. et Sloan. — Rhus 

 decipiens Wighi et Arn. 1. c. (1834) c. cit. Burm, t. 45 et Wight, Gat. (autogr. 1833) 

 n. 520, 521; Wight, 1. c. (1840). — Pteridophyllum decipiens Thwait. 1. c. (1854, 1855, 



