SAPINDACEJS. ill 



3-6-agonaI ; cells 3-6 ; style erect, stiginatifcrous 3-6-fi(l or 

 dentate at apex. Ovules in cells 2, collateral or subsuperposed ; 

 one generally ascendent ; the other descendent. Fruit capsular, 

 membraneous or subcoriaceous, 2-G-agonalor 2-6-winged, septicidally 

 2-6-valved ; valves dorsally winged or carinate ; columella per- 

 sistently septiferous, seminiferous. Seeds compressed exarillate; 

 funicle sometimes incrassate at apex ; testa coriaceous or hard J 

 cotyledons of exalbuminous embryo rather wide, more or less 

 spirally-convolute. — Trees or shrubs, sometimes viscous; leaves 

 alternate simple or more rarely paripinnate ; flowers in axillary and 

 terminal racemose-composite or corymbiform racemes (sometimes 

 few or 1-flowered.j [All hot reg?) 



40. Distichostemon F. Muell.- — Flowers polygarao-dicecious 

 (nearly of Dodoncea) apetalous ; sepals 5-S, linear-oblong, imbricated, 

 finally not contiguous on both sides. Stamens o), central, free ; 

 filaments very short erect ; anthers elongated basifixed hispid apiculate, 

 iutrorsely 2-rimose; the interior sometimes imperfect. Gormen (in 

 male flower rudimentary or 0) surrounded by small disk ; cells 2-4, 

 2-ovulate (of Dodoncea); style slender, simple or 2-4-dentate stigma- 

 tiferous at apex. Capsule 2-4-locular, septicidid ; cells dorsally 

 jjroduced above in short coriaceous wings ; valves 2-4, free fi-om 

 walls of 2-4-pterous columella, 1- or 2-si)ermoiis. — ^Vhitish toraentose 

 shriibs ; leaves alternate sessile oblong entire reticulate- veined ; 

 flowers in terminal subsimple or slightly ramified racemes ; pedicels 

 short.^ {Tmp. Australia.^) 



41? Alvaradoa Liebm.^ — Flowers regular diuocious ; male calyx 

 5-lobed, valvate. Petals 5, alternating with sepals, filiform, capil- 

 laceous or 0. Stamens 6 (in female flower 0), oppositipetalous 

 inserted between the; 5 lobes of rather thick central disk ; filaments 

 long subulate exserted ; anthers introrse ; cells linear parallel, longi- 



' Spec, about 50. Rrno. Trans. Linn. Soc. Ami. i. 135 ; ii. 223 ; iv. 381 ; vii. 634. 



xi. t. 19, 20.— Wight, III. t. 52.— H. B. K. - Sook. Kew Juuni. ix. 306.— B. H. Oeii. ilO, 



Nov. Gen. H S/iec. v. 132, t. 442.— Andr. in n. 64. 



£ut. Jiejiox. t. 230.— Endl. Jtakt. t. 31. — ' A gumis nearly allied to Dudoiuea with 



A. S. H. Fl. Bras. Mer. i. 392.— Bl. Itiwiphia, which it was long confounded, differing chiefly 



iii. 188. — lIooK. r. Fl. Nov.-Zel. i. 38 ; Man. in habit and androceum. 



44.— Ghiseii. J"/. B;-i7. /F.-/«rf. 127.— Hakv. et < Spec. 1. D. Iiispidulum.—D. phijlloptenis 



SoNl). Fl. Cnp.i. 241.— I'liw. Jii iim. PI. Xn/l. .'id. F. MtiELL. IIo»k. Kew Jourii. ix. 306.— Benth. 



— Besth. H. Austral, i. 472.— Bdiss. /■'/. Or. i. Fl. Austral, i. 487.— Walp. Ann. vii. 037.- 



9:3. — Bakeu, Fl. Tmp. Afr. i. 433.— Tu. et Pi.. JJudunma hiapiduta Endl. A takt. t. 30. 



Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 4, xviii. 378. — Montrovz. ' J^densk. Meddel. Kjobtn. (18o3), 100. — 



iWm. Acad. Lyon. x. Wd.—Bot. Mag. t. 2860.— B. H. Oen. 411, n. 67. 

 «"/. Reg. t. 442.— Walp. Itep. i. 421 ; v. 368; 



