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Order XXVII. SAPINDACEJE. 



Trees or shrubs, with alternate or opposite leaves, with or without stip- 

 ules, and small flowers which are generally polygamous. Sepals mostly 

 4-5, imbricate, rarely valvate, more or less connate. Petals mostly 3-5 or 

 none, imbricate, often hairy below. Disc complete or 1 -sided. Sta- 

 mens hypogynous, 5-10, generally 8, the filaments often hairy. Ovary 

 1-4-celled, generally 3-celled ; ovules 1-2 in each cell, on axile placentas. 

 Fruit various ; seeds generally without albumen. Gen. PI. i. 388 ; Eoyle 

 111. 136: Wight 111. i. 139. 



Fruit coriaceous, 1 -3-celled ; leaves without stipules. 



Leaves opposite, palmately compound . . . .1. ^sctilus. 



Leaves alternate, pinnate . . . . .2. Schleichera. 



Fruit of 1-3 nearly distinct indeliiscent carpels ; leaves usually 

 without stipules. 

 Carpels not winged ; leaves alternate, abruptly pinnate or uni- 



foliolate . . . . . . . 3. Sapindus. 



Carpels 2, with long wings at the back ; leaves opposite, sim- 

 ple, entire or palmatifid . . . . 4. AcEPv. 



Fruit a. membranous, dehiscent, 2-5-celled capsule; leaves with 

 or without stipules. 

 Sepals 5, valvate ; petals none ; stamens 8 ; leaves simple, 



alternate, without stipules . . . 5. Dodon^ea. 



Sepals 5, imbricate ; petals 5 ; stamens 5 ; leaves opposite, 



trifoliolate or pinnate, stipulate . . . .6. Staphylea. 



1. ^SCULUS, Linn. 



Trees with large scaly buds, and opposite, digitate, deciduous leaves, 

 without stipules. Plowers showy, in an ample terminal thyrsus, poly- 

 gamous, the fertile flowers generally near the base of the branches of the 

 thyrsus, the others sterile by abortion of the ovary, otherwise similar ; the 

 pedicels articulate ; bracts deciduous. Calyx campanulate or tubular, 

 5-lobed, deciduous, the lobes more or less unequal, imbricate in bud. 

 Petals 5, alternate with the lobes of the calyx, often only 4 from the 

 abortion of the fifth, hypogynous, unequal, imbricate in bud, deciduous. 

 Disc hypogynous, lobed. Stamens 6 - 8, commonly 7, outer circle 5, 

 alternate with petals, inner circle 1-3 ; filaments subulate or filiform ; 

 anthers versatile, introrse, with glandular tips at both ends, 2-celled, open- 

 ing longitudinally. Ovary 3-celled ; style slender, undivided ; ovules 2 

 in each cell. Fruit a large leathery capsule, 1 -3-celled, the cells 1 -seeded, 

 loculicidally 2-3-valved. Seeds large, with a smooth, shining, coriaceous 

 testa, and a broad opaque hilum. Albumen none ; cotyledons thick, 

 fleshy, more or less corrugate, and coherent by their contiguous faces, un- 

 equal, incumbent on the short conical radicle, plumule conspicuous, 2-leaved. 

 The cotyledons remain in the coriaceous testa whilst the seed germinates. 



1. A. indica, Colebrooke. Tab. XIX. Syn. Pavia indica, Wall.; 

 Jacquemont Voy. Bot. t. 35. The Indian Horse-chestnut. Yern. Seutoalla, 

 Kafnristan ; Torjaga, Trans-Indus ; Heine, hanudun, Kashmir ; Ban-khor 

 (forest- walnut), gugu, kanor, Pb. ; PdnJcar, KW.P. 



