SAPINDACE^. 3!)!J 



imbricated or siibvalvate. Petals equal in uumber to sepals 

 (or 0), lined with scales or hairs, more rarely naked, imbricated. 

 Stamens (sterile in female flower) 8 (or more rarely 5-7, or 9-12, 

 interior to complete annular, entire or crenate, glabrous or pilose 

 disk ; filaments short, rather longer or much elongate- exserted ; 

 anthers introrse, 2-rimose. Germen central (rudimentary in male 

 flower) often substipitate ; style terminal, divided at apex into short 

 stigmatiferous lobes or teeth equal in number to cells ; cells in germen 

 3, more rarely 2 or -4; ovnle in each 1 , ascendent ; micropyle extrorsely 

 inferior. Capsule subsessile or stipitate, obovate, oboordate or 2—1:- 

 agonal, 2-4-lobed, sometimes coriaceous or subfleshy ; lobes connate 

 or subfi-ee, divaricate or cymbiform, loculicidal or more rarely solute 

 from axis, glabrous or sometimes setose within. Seeds suberect ; testa 

 coriaceous, glabrous, more or less highly arUlate at base, sometimes 

 more rarely naked ; cotyledons of exalbuminous embryo thick fleshy, 

 plano-convex straight or ciarved ; radicle short incurved. — Trees or 

 shrubs ; leaves alternate, abruptly or imparipiunate ; folioles (usually 

 eutu-e) alternate or opposite ; flowers in subsimple or more or less 

 (sometimes much) ramified compouud-cymiferous racemes. {All hot 

 regions}) 



14. Erioccelum Hook, jun.^ — Flowers polygamous-dioecious re- 

 gular, 5-merous ; sepals 5, valvate. Petals 0, or 5, alternate small, 

 dilated within in scales sometimes subpeltate ciliate larger than limb. 

 Disk annular duplex, outwardly 8-10-crenate ; interior plate longer 

 than exterior, enlarged inside with 8-10 radiant ribs. Stamens 8-10 

 interior to disk; filaments far exserted; anthers small, iutrorsely 2- 

 rimose. Germen in male flower rudimentary central strigose-pilose. 

 Female flower. . . ? " Capsule coriaceous hispid, loculicidal 3-valved ; 

 cells inwardly Mnuginous, 1-spermous." — Strigose trees ; leaves al- 

 ternate abruptly pinnate ; folioles 2-4-jugate subopposite cutii'e ; 

 flowers in axillarj- simple or ramified glomerulifcrous racemes. 

 {Trap. West. Africa^) 



■ Spec, about 80. H.15. K. Nov. Gen. el Spec. Afr. i. 425, 426 {Blighia).—\l. Bn. Adaii.ioiiia, 



v.l2i.—A.S.n.Fl.Jlrai.Mer.'i.oS5,t.'!'J.—A. xi. 240.— Panch. & Seh. Jlois. N.-Cirh'J. 230 



KiCH. C'«*. t. 31, 32 (ftrt<o;/i«).— Lahill.&W. t. (part.)-— Wai,i'. Hep. i. 418; ii. 81.3 ; v. 363 ; 



73.— Gkiseb. Fl. Brit. W.-Ind. 125; Cat. PI. Aim. ii. 214; iv. 379 (part.); vii. 625, 627 



Cub. 45 — Tu. etPL. Ann. .S'c. Nat. sor. 4, xviii. (^Raionia). 



373.— BL./f«wjD/</a,iii. 157.— Mici. F/. liid.-Bnt. - Gm. 400, n. 20. 



i. p. ii. 586 ; Suppl. i. 509.— Be.ntii. Fl. Am- 3 Spec. 2. Baker, Fl. Trop. Afr. i. 427. 

 tral. i. 467, 460 (An^wiiV/).— Baker, Fl. Trop. 



