SAPINDACE^E. 377 



Endlicher,^ undor the name of Meliosmew, between Sapindaccce and 

 Hlppocastancce . We replace them as a series in the family of 

 Sapindacece^ adding seven new genera ^ and replacing Huertea of 

 Euiz and Pa von, Ganophyllum of Blume, and Filicium ofTHWAiTEs; 

 which, without the imperfectly known types whose place is quite un- 

 certain,^ raises the number of genera to seventy-four. We group 

 them in eight series whose general characters are as follows : 



1. STAPHYLEiE. — Hermaphrodite flowers, regular, Avith depressed 

 or slightly concave receptacle, lined by a disk whose thickened edge 

 is interior to stamens which are equal in number to the petals. 

 Carpels totally independent or united to a variable height. 

 Ovules 2- CO. Fruit dry or fleshy. Seeds with or without aril, with 

 albumen and rectilinear embryo, liCaves opposite, simple or com- 

 pound. — 2 genera. 



2. SABiEiE. — Hermaphrodite or uni-sexual regular flowers. Disk 

 interior to stamens superposed to the petals and equal or less in 

 number. Carpels independent or imited in an ovary with 2 or 3 

 cells Ovules 2 in each cell, more or less distinctly ascendent and 

 auatropous, micropyle directed downwards and outwards. Fruit dry 

 or fleshy, generally indchiscent. Seeds with albumen wanting or very 

 slight, a bent embryo, couduplicate or rolled in a sjiiral. Leaves 

 alternate (rarely opposite), simple or compound pinnate. — 2 genera. 



3. SAPiNDEiE. — Flowers regular or nearly so, polygamo-dioecious. 

 Petals equal, the same in number as the divisions of the calyx and 

 alternate with them, often lined by a scale. Disk exterior to the 

 androcciim, more rarely interior or interposed to the stamens, com- 

 plete, circular, regular or nearly so. Gynteceum central with 1-2- 



' O™. Ilfi5. ii. 184, t. 6;--H. Bn. Eitphorhiac. 057). 



- l':do)iiphclium, Crosaotiephdin, [Eriandro- African treo (rultivated in hothouses), with 



stiichijf!, Meliopsidium, Pseudopterls, Arerrhoi- compound-digitiite, opposite leaves, fruit cap- 



dium, Puudalahya. sulur, loculicidiil, and cells dispermous. Doubt- 



' 1st. Eijiinthes (Louu. Fl. Cochinch. 234); ful 'Eiiphoibiaceic, according to Hookek. <Si(- 



— DC. Prodr. i. 618 {EuHtathes) ;— Endl. Oeii. pindacea (M. Arg. loc. eit.). 



n. 5633). — Tree with entire alternate leaves, 4th. Raoaria (Aubl. Gttiaii. ii. Suppl. 24, t. 



flowers, 5-inrTous, 8-androu3, fruit fleshy, 1- 382). Shrub with compound pinnate leaves, 



locubir, 4-spennous. drupaceous fruit contaiuinu; two or three 



2nd. Bi'di/carpua (Jack, Traitu, Linn. Soc. inonosjiermous kernels (very imperfectly do- 



xiv. 118; — Endl. ft-'w. n. .5877; Suppl. iii. 79, scribed and doubtfully referred to the Sapin- 



noc ITassk. nee Mia.). —Enp/ior/iiaccn, ox Ii. II. diii-ere). 



Oen. 392. " Rooto ad Snpiiidaccas tranalatus 6th. Schieclica (Kaust. Bnt. Zelt. (1848), 



fuit," M. Aug. DC. I'l-odr. xv. sect. ii. 12.59 3US). " (T(m. ut vi letur Sirjniiite afline, ex 



{Sclinildclui .'.') descr. futuli tantum notum " (15. H. Gen. 392. 



3rd. Oldfddia (1!. II. nimlc. .Tourn. (1850), 



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