SAPINDACE^. 



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i^innate. The flowers are arranged in axillary clusters, simple or 

 ramified, with articulate pedicels. 



II. SABIA SEKIES. 



Sahia ^ (fig. 342, 343) has flowers generally hermaphrodite. The 

 convex receptacle usuallj^ bears five imbricate sepals, five petals 

 superposed to the sepals and imbricated like them, and five oppositi- 



Scibia lanceolata. 



Fig. 342. Longitudinal section of flower (f). 



Fig. 343. Diagram. 



petalous stamens, each formed of a free filament and an anther often 

 introrse,with cells didymous oradnate to the basifixed connective, de- 

 hiscent close to the edge of it by a longitudinal cleft. The filaments 

 are inserted at the base of a cylindrical foot supporting the gyna?ceum, 

 and thickened in the intervals of the stamens into five projecting 

 ribs whose upper part sometimes projects upwards in the manner of 

 an altcrnipetalous gland. There are flowers in which the perianth 

 and androccuin are tetramerous. The gynipceum is free, formed of 

 two or, more rarely, three independent carpels brought together and 

 often adhering at the internal angle ; they are each composed of an 

 unilocular ovary, tapering upwards in a slender style, obtuse stigma- 

 tiferous at apex. In the interior angle of each ovary is seen a lon- 



' CoLEiiu. in Tiaiia. Linn. Sue. xii. 3.5.5, 1. 14. 

 — Endl. Oe)i. n. 5927. — Pl. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 

 4, iii. 296.— B. 11. Ge». 414, n. \.—Meniaeota 

 yZlj. Bijdr. 28.— Endl. Oat. n. 4088 {Meiihper- 



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mncem). — Enantia Falcon, in Hook. Joiirii. iv. 

 75 (not Oliv, ).—Ani!roghs>ia Bexth. Hook. Keu- 

 Joiirn. iii. 42. 



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