SAPINDACE^. 



343 



the gynasceum, three carpels are inserted obliquely, free on their 

 interior edge and each formed by an unilocular ovary tapering into 

 an apiculate style whose slightly dilated stiginatiferous apex often 

 adheres to the stigmas of the two other carpels. In the internal 

 angle of each ovary is seen a placenta supporting foiir ovules, 

 arranged in two vertical ascendent series, with the micropyle tm-ned 



Tr iter OS japon tea} 



Fig. 337. Longitudinal 

 section of fruit. 



Fig. 336. Longitudinal 

 section of flower (f). 



Fig. 338. Longitudinal 

 section of seed {\). 



downwards and outwards. There are flowers whose gyneeceum is 

 formed of only two carpels. The fruit (fig. 337) is, accordingly, 

 composed of two or throe independent, foUiculiform, divergent, coria- 

 ceous carpels, each opening slowly inwardly to set at liberty from 

 one to four seeds. These (fig. 338) i^resent beneath their double 

 coat, the exterior of which is fleshy and tlie interior crustaceous, a 

 fleshy albumen surrounding an embryo with inferior radicle and 

 large orbicular flattened cotyledons. In certain species of the same 

 genus, indicated under the name of Turpinia,'^ the carpels are inde- 

 pendent only in the upper portion and not towards the base. The peri- 

 carp, generally indchiscent, is more or less thick, coriaceous or even 

 fleshy. In all the Triceros^ however, the number of ovules is varia- 

 ble in each series, reduced even sometimes to one. There are ten 

 species ' of this genus, arborescent or frutescent, growing in tem- 



' Sambums japnnica TnuND. Fl. Jap. 125. — 

 — AilantHfi japoiiica Bl. Iiorb ! — Siaphiika hetcr- 

 ophylla RiEM. & Sen. — Eiiscaphis stapln/lcoidcs 

 SiEB. Zucc. loc. cit. — MiQ. J/k.!. Ziii/d.-Jlat. iii. 

 92. 



= Vent. C/wix dc PI. t. 31.— DC. Prnrb: ii. 3. 

 — Tuur. Diet. Sc. Nil/. Atl. t. 273.— Endl. Ga>. 

 n. 5671.— B. H. Cell. 413, 1000, n. IZ.—Dii!- 

 rymphea Roxn. PL Coromimd. iii. 75, t. 279. — 



Lacepedea H. B. K. Non. Gcii. ct Spcc.v. 112, t. 

 444.— ExDL. Gcii. n. 6703. ~ Triccriiria W. 

 Jliviii. & Sr/i. Sy.if. iv. 803. — Ochranthe Lindl. 

 But. Reg. t. 1819.— Endi,. Gch. n. 6474.— 

 Eyrca Champ. JIuolc. Kew Joiirti. iii. 331. 



■■' Wight, Irmi. t. 972 (,Tiiipinitt).—Tv\.. Ann. 

 Sc. Nnf. ser. 3, vi. 301 (rH;7;i'«/«).— Griseh. Fl. 

 Brit. W.-Ind. 128.— Sim. Fl. hid.-Bal. i. p. ii. 



