SAPINDACE^. . 409 



inclehisceut, 1-o-locular ; seed in cell oftener 1, exarillato ; cotyledons 

 of fleshy oxalbumiuous embryo thick more or less ciu'ved or condu- 

 plicate; radicle short ascendent. — Small trees ; twigs tomentellose 

 (fulvous) ; leaves alternate, abruptly or imparipinnate ; folioles sub- 

 opposite eutii-e or dentate; flowers in short muchramilied cymiferous 

 axillary and terminal racemes. (^South Africa and east. trap, islands}) 



35 ? Pseudopteris H. Bn. — Flowers 1-sexual regular; male 

 calyx 5-partite (coloured), valvate or subimbricate. Petals 5, alternate 

 much shorter, cucullate, induplicate- valvate ; each enclosing in its 

 cavity a small obtuse interior basilar glandule. Stamens 5, interior 

 to glands and alternating with them ; filaments free, exserted, inserted 

 below small central rudiment of gyneeceura ; anthers ovate introrse 

 (coloTU'ed), 2-rimose. Female flower...? — A small tree (not ramified 

 or scarcely so) glabrous ; leaves collected at apex alternate, very 

 abruptly or paripinnate; folioles 20-25-jugate, opposite or alternate, 

 imequally-trapezoid acute entire, sinuate or serrate reticulate- veined ; 

 male flowers in simple elongated racemes (^springing from the 

 wood) alternately cymiferous, small crowded, thinly pedicellate." 

 (^Madagascar?) 



3G ? Averrhoidium H. Bn. — • Flowers polygamo - dioecious 

 regular apetalous (nearly of H.ippohromus') ; sepals 5, unequal, im- 

 bricated. Stamens 8, interior to regular lobed disk ; filaments free ; 

 anthers short (efi'ete in female flower). Germen in female flower 

 central, 3-locular ; style simple reclinate, stigmatiferous at apex ; 

 ovules in cells 2, inserted at middle of internal angle ; one ascendent, 

 the other descendent. Fruit...? — A tree ; leaves alternate collected 

 at summit of twigs, abruptly pinnate ; leaves 2-4-jugate unequal, 

 serrate above ; flowers in short scanty cymiferous racemes terminal 

 or axillary to upper leaves.'*' {Brazil?) 



37 ? Filicium Thav.'' — Flowers regular polygamous; sepals 5, im- 



' Spec. 2, of which one is Iiom Madagascar. 243. 



PoiK. Siippl. iii. 224 (ilelicucca). — Jtss. Mem. * A genus imperfectly known, allied in some 



Mils. iii. 178, t. 7 (Aldicocca). — DC. Piodr. i. respects to Sippobronms and Melicocca in 



615, n. 5 [Melicocca). — Thvnb. Fl. Cap. 2G8 othcvs to Dudoncea 



[Elms). — Spreng. Syst. Suppl. 18 {TFein- ' Spec. 1. A. Oardncriaiutm H. B.v. Adaii- 



mannia) — Hart. & Sond. Fl. Cap. i. 241. sonia, xi. 244. 



- A genus, from its female flowers heing un- ^ Eimm. PL Zcijl. 408 [Burscrem). — B. U. 



known, of -very doubtful place, allied ap- Gen. 325, n. 11.— March. Adamonia.sm.V) 



parently to Filicium and Uippohromus (and {Aiiacard.). — Pteridoph./llum Tinv. Uouk. Kew 



perhaps to Macphersouia ?). Journ. vi. 65, t. 1 (not Sieb. ot Zucc). 

 Spec. 1. P. dccipiens H. B.v. Adaiiso>ii;i, xi. 



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