396 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



thick plano-convex, curved or sometimes convohite.— Trees or slirubs ; 

 leaves alternate pinnate or simple {Pappcea ') ; folioles entire, dentate 

 or serrate ; the lowest sometimes smaller [Pometiaf siiborbicular 

 stipuliform ; flowers in axillary and terminal subsimple or more or 

 less ramified corapound-cymiferous racemes.^ {Trop. reg. of Old 

 World.") 



8. Podonephelium H. Bn. — Flowers polygamous-dioecious 

 (nearly of N(pheKum) ; calyx short cupular, shortly 5-dentate or 

 sometimes subentire. Petals 0. Stamens 5-8 (in female flower or 

 few fertile or antherless) exserted below rudiment of gynseceum, 

 interior to cupular crenulate ciliate disk ; filaments finally exserted ; 

 anthers oblong introrse versatile, 2-rimose. Germ en inserted at summit 

 of thick cylindrical or subclavate erect podogynium, 3-lobed ; cells 

 1-ovulato ; style short, afterwards 3-fid ; branches linear revolute, 

 inwardly stigmatiferous to apex. Fruit 3-coccous, placed at 

 summit of podogynium ; sterile cocci usually 2 ; fertile 1 (or more 

 rarely 2, 3) subglobose, depressed at apex, longitudinally obtusely 

 sulcate drupaceous ; flesh scanty subcoriacoous ; putamen thin ; testa 

 of ascendent subglobose seed, clothed with fleshy (arilloid) indumen- 

 tum adhering at nearly every part except at 3 -angular spathe round 

 chalaza ; cotyledons of thick exalbuminous embryo plano-convex 

 fleshy superposed ; radicle short arched conoid incumbent descendent. 

 — A small tree ; leaves alternate abruptly pinnate ; folioles alternate 

 from base very unequally falciform penniveined reticulate small 

 veined ; flowers in racemose composite cymiferous clusters axillary 

 to upper leaves ; pedicels articulate/ [Netv Caledonia, Lifu.^) 



9. Xerospermum Bl.'^ — Flowers polygamous-dioecious regular, 

 4-merous ; sepals decussately imbricated ; exterior smaller. Petals 4, 

 alternate, short or very shortly subspathulate, rather villose at margin, 

 esquamate. Stamens 8, short, interior to annular disk ; filaments 



' EoKL. et Zeyh. Einim. 53. — Endl. Oen. n. 241 [Sapindm). — Tiiw. Enum. PI. Zeyl. 67,408 



6635.— Hook. /CT».t. 352.— B.H.GrH.407,n. 61. {Pi>metia).—Mvx. Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. ii. 653, 



2 FoRST. Pivdr. V. 74 (part.) ; Char. Gen. 658 {Pomctia), 669 {Spaiior//iea) ; Suppl. i. 608. 



109, t. 55.— B. H. Oen. 407, n. 52.— Irina Bl. — Benth. Fl. Austral, i. 464.— Walp. Sep. i- 



Jiijdr. 230.— Cambess. Mem. Mns. xviii. 24.— 420 ; t. 364 ; Ann. ii. 220 ; vii. 630, 631 



Endl. Oeii.n. 5607. — Fccyemant/ms Taw. Soolc. [Spanoghea, Pappeea). 



Kew Jtiuyii. vii. 272, t. 9. 'A genus allied to Sapindus, and hence to 



^ A genua allied to Euphoria by seed and J\"ep/i(?i«m, principally distinct by cocci of fruit 



fruit, differing principally in nature of calyx. being stipate with elongated jjodogyniiun. 



■* Spec, ad 20. DC. Prodr. i. 611 {Euphoria). " Spec. 1. P.stipitaium H. Bn. in Adansonia, 



— Wight, leon. t. 43. — Blanco, Fl. de Filip. xi. 245. — Ciipania stipitata rANCn. herb. ! 



287 (E!<i)/io)-i'ff).— Hakv. et Sond. I'l. Cap. i. " Kmnphia, iii. 99.— B. H. Qen. 405, n. 46. 



