SAPINDAOE^. 403 



22 ? Glenniea Hook, f.^ — Flowers regular (nearly of Ncplic- 

 liiim) polygamous ; receptacle rather flat. Calyx gamophyllous, 

 deeply 5-lobed, valvate. Petals 5, alternate, much shorter sub-o- 

 augular shortly unguiculate wider thau long rather thick ciliate. 

 Stamens 8 (sterile in female flower); filaments short interior to disk ; 

 anthers introrse short, 2-dymous, 2-rimose. Germen 3-agonal, attenu- 

 ated to shortly conical style ; apex decuiTent-3-lobed stigmatiferous ; 

 ovule in incomplete cells 1, suberect ; micropyle extrorsoly inferior. 

 Fruit subglobose thickly fleshy obscurely lobed, 1-3-locular, 1-3-sper- 

 mous ; seeds smooth exarillate ; embryo . . . ? — A large tree ; leaves 

 alternate imparipiimate ; fulioles 1-2 -jugate ovate-oblong; flowers" 

 in simple or scantily ramified shortly cymiferous racemes terminal 

 or oppositifolious. {Zeylania?) 



23. Schleichera W.*^ — Flowers regular (nearly of NqiheUum) 

 polygamo-dia^eiuus apetalous ; calyx small, -t-G-fid, subvalvate or 

 slightly imbricate. Stamens 4-8, interior to regular disk ; anthers 

 short introrse. Germen (rudimentary in male flower) 3-4:-locular ; 

 colls sometimes incomplete ; style long conical, stigmatiferous revo- 

 lute-3— i-lobed at apex. Ovules subbasilar ; micropyle extrorsely 

 inferior. Friiit ovoid ch-y ; pericarp subcrustaceous glabrous or here 

 and there spinose ; cells 1 , 2, 1-spermous. Seed and aril oi NephcUum 

 (or Euphoria) ; cotyledons of exalbuminous conduplicate embryo 

 unequal. — Trees ; leaves alternate pai'i- or imparipinuate ; folioles 

 subopposite ; flower in slender simple or rauiilicd cymiferous 

 racemes ; pedicels slender.'' ( Trop, Asia.^^ 



24, Melicocca L7 — Flowers regular (nearly of Schleichera or 

 Nephelium) ; sepals 4, o, wider mepibranous, much imbricated. 

 Petals 4, 5, alternate membranous esquamate, much imbricated. 



' Gen. 404, n. 42. ^ Spec. 1 oi- 2. J. in Mem. Mm. iii. 187, t. 5 



- Small, pubescent. {Melicocca). — DC. Prudr. i. 615 [Melicocca). — 



^ S])ec. 1. O. zct/lmiica Hook. p. — Sapindm DC. Prodr. i. 616 {Mclieoccw sect. Sphcerococca). 



uiiijmjus Thw. Enum. PI. Zeyl. 56.— .S. Gkitniei —Mm. Fl. Ind.-Bat. Suppl. i. 199.— Thw. 



Thw. Ivc. cit. (Gon. vix servanjum.) Enum. PI. Zeijl. 58.— Walp. Mep. v. 366 ; Ann. 



^ Hpec. Pluiit. iv. 1096.- Endl. Geii. n. 5621. ii. 222. 



— Bl. Ilumphia iii. 147.— B. H. Gen. 404, n. ' Gen. n. 47.— J. Gen. 248 ; Mem. Mm. iii. 



i\.— J{oon G.EUTN. Fruct. ii. 486, t. 180.— (1817), 187 (part.) t. 4.— DC. Prodi: i. 615, 



Ciisaamhiiim Ri;mi'h. Herb. Amboin. i. t. 67. sect. I [Oocoeca). — SrACH, Suit, a Buffon, iii. 65. 



' A genus except for nonlobcd fruit (a — Camhess. M^in. Mas. xviii. 32 (part.). — 



character it would seom of little importance Endi,. (7f«. n. 5620.— B. H. Qen. 401, n. 32.— 



here) scarcely distinct from Xcpkcliwn. Caaimiria Scor. Intrvd. u. 102G. 



