XLIII. SAPINDACE.E. 



1. STAPHYLEA SEEIE8. 



We commence the study of this group by the analysis, not of a 

 Staplnjlea (fig. 335, 339-351), but rather of a Triccros,^ whose 

 flowers (fig. 336) are regular, hermaphrodite, with a receptacle in 

 the form of a cup of little depth. The edges bear five sepals and an 

 equal number of perigyuous petals, both imbricate, five alternipe- 



StaphyUa pinnaia. 



w 

 Fig. 335. Florifcrous branch. 



talous stamens, also perigyuous, each formed of a free thread and a 

 bilocular introrse anther dehiscing by two longitudinal clefts, and 

 also inserted perigynously. In the interior the glandular disk lining 

 the concavity of the receptacle is prolonged in a cu-cular rim, nearly 

 entire. In the concavity of the receptacle, below the perianth and 



' Lour. Fl. Cnchiueh. (ed. 179C), 184.— DC. 

 Prodr.ii. 89 [Terehiiithac. dul).). — Endl. Oct. n- 

 6946.— B. II. Oen. 418, 439.— ? Hiiscajihis Sim. 



et Zucc. Fl. Jap. i. 124, t. 67.— Endl. Geii. n. 

 5672.— B. H. Oen. 412, n. 72. 



