SAPINDACEJE. 405 



rounded at base by very flesliy thick turgid ' (red) unequally-rugose 

 aril ; cotyledons of exalbuminous curved embryo extremely spu'ally 

 convolute ; radicle inferior. — A lofty tree ; leaves alternate impari- 

 pinnate ; folioles entii'c or denticulate, pubescent beneath ; flowers in 

 axillary and terminal ramified compound cymiferous racemes. {New 

 Zealand.') 



27 ? Eriandrostachys H. Bn. — Flowers dioecious ; male calyx 

 5-6-partite ; folioles regularly arranged, very unequal and dis- 

 similar from each other; the 2, 3, exterior shorter thick villose (like 

 the sepals) ; the interior much larger wide petaloid ; ^ all extremely 

 imbricated. Stamens S, interior to regular 5-crenate disk ; fila- 

 ments inserted below small central rudiment of gyuseceum, in bud 

 corrugate-plicate, finally exserted ; anthers ovoid introrse, 2-rimose. 

 Female flower . . , ? — A tall small shi-ub ; stems numerous ; wood very 

 hard ) nearly all parts ferruginose-villose ; leaves alternate pari- 

 pinnate; folioles opposite, very short petiolulate, 6-10-jugate, 

 unequally-lanceolate ; flowers in axillary simple or scantily fascicu- 

 late rigid spikes subequal to leaves ; the male in axUs of short bracts 

 glomerulate small.' [3Iadagascar}) 



28. Thouinia Poit.''' — Flowers dioecious or polygamous regular ; 

 sepals 4, 5, free or connate at base, greatly or slightly imbricated. 

 Petals -l, 5, alternate, sometimes minute [Thinouia '^), entire or 2-lobod, 

 furnished with villulose scales or 0. Stamens 8-10, interior to 

 crenate or lobed annular disk ; filaments free, oftencr jjilose ; anthers 

 introrse, 2-rimose. Germen (rudimentary hi male flower) 3-locular ; 

 style erect, sid)entu'e or 3-fid stigmatiferous at apex; ovule in cell 1, 

 ascendent ; micropylc extrorsely inferior. Fruit 3-samara3,^ solute 

 from central, sometimes persistent [Thinouia) axis; testa of exarillate 

 seed membranous ; cotyledons of exalbumiaous embryo thick plano- 



' The swelling dually bursting the pericarp « Ann. Mux. iii. 70, t. 6, 7 (uot Domb. nor 



by dehiscence. Sm. nor Sw.).— Ttmr. Diet. Sc. Nat. Atl. t. 171. 



- Spec. 1. A. excelsum G^ktn. loc. cit. — — DC. Prodi: i. 612. — Endl. Gen. n. fiGlS. — 



Hook. /«(!«. t. 570.— Hook. F. /"?. AT.-Zs;. i. 37 ; B. H. Qen. 400, 1000, n. I'i.—Thyana Ham. 



Man. N.-Zeal. Fl. 45. Prodr. Fl. hid. Oec. 36. — Vargaxia Bert. 



' " Rosy." Spreng. Sijst. ii. 2S3.—Ca>yodiplenx Karst. Fl. 



■■ A genus, from the female flower being un- Columb. ii. 45, t. 23. 



known, of very doubtful place in Ihe order, ~ Tr. et Pl. Ann. Seiene. Nat. ser. 4, xviii. 



•whether allied to Slclicoeco) (?) ; it diff'ers chiefly 368. A genus at first sight sufliciontly distinct, 



in the s].ikos being very long and the leaves but bolter, according to Benth. and Hook, on 



of perianth, although regularly arranged, being account of the slight importance of these cha- 



verj- unequal and dissimilar. racters, not preserved. 



' Spec. 1. JS. C/iajjellieri H. Bn. Adamonia, xi. ^ Kesembling those of Acer 

 239. 



