SAPINDACE^. 415 



47. Schmidelia L.' — Flowers polygamo-dioecious, irregular, or 

 subregular ; sepals 4, decussate, imbricate ; 2 exterior, smaller. 

 Petals 4, alternate, often mimite (sometimes 0), either glabrous, or 

 villose-barbate witbin, Disk irregular or siibregular, interior to 

 petals, either continuous lobate, or consisting of glands 2, 4, oppo- 

 sitipetalous, rarely very small (or 0). Stamens generally 8, hypo- 

 gynous, subcentric or often excentric free, oftener short ; anthers 

 iutrorse, 2-rimose. Germen excentric (in male flower rudimentary), 2- 

 dymous or 2-3-lobed ; cells 2, 3, 1 -ovulate ; style inserted between the 

 lobes of the germen, stigmatose at apex variously 2-3-lobed; micro- 

 pyle of ascendent subbasilar ovule extrorsely inferior. Fruit 1-3- 

 coccoiis, dry, coriaceous or sometimes a little fleshy ; embryo of seed 

 shortly arillate at base exalbuminous curved; cotyledons 2-plicate. — 

 Small trees or ecirrhose shrubs ; leaves alternate exstii^ulate ; leaflets 

 1-3 (or rarely 5), entire or serrate, sometimes punctate or lineate ; 

 flowers'- in axillary simple or loosely ramose racemes, sometimes 

 cymiferous. [All tropical regions?) 



48 ? Hemigyrosa Bl.* — Flowers polygamous irregular (nearly 

 of Pancovia) ; petals 4, 5 ; the fifth esquamate or 0. Stamens 8, disk 

 1 -lateral, and the remaining characters those of Pancovia. Fruit 

 spherical or 3-gonal, woody or coriaceous, indehiscent, externally 

 tomentose or velutinous, hirsute within ; cells 3, 1-spermous ; em- 

 bryo of exarillate seed exalbuminous ; cotyledons fleshy equal. — 

 Sericeo-pubescent trees ; leaves alternate, abruptly or imparipinnate ; ' 

 leaflets opposite petiolulate oblong ; inflorescence," etc. of Pancovia "^ 

 {Tropical Asia?) 



> MuntisH. 67.— J. Gen. 247.— DC. Prodr. 1. — PcEPP. and Endl. Nor. Gcii. et Spec. t. 244.— 



610.— Camhess. Mem. Mu.i. xviii. 23.— Si'ach, A. Hicti. Ft. Abyss. Tent. t. 21 ; Cuba,t. 29, 30. — 



Suit, d Iluffon, iii. .30. — Endl. Gen. n. 560.5. — Guill. and Peiik. Ft. Sen. Ttnt. i. 120. — TuKCz. 



Bl. Rnmphia, iii. ] 39.— B. H. Gen. 396, 999, n. Bull. Mosc. (1858), i. 398.— Giuseh. Fl. Brit. TF.- 



\i .—Alhiphyllm L. Gen. n. 476.— Bl. Rumphia, Ind. 126.— Mia. Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. ii. 574 {Allo- 



iii. \2l,—Apuretica Forst. Chnr. Gen. 131, t. 66. phijllus), bl% ; Suppl. i. 199.— Thw. Enam. PL 



—Onntrophe J. Gen. 247.— PoiR. Diet. viii. 263; 7.eyl. 55.— Harv. and Sond. Fl. Cap. i. 238.— 



Suppl. V. 405.— Lamk. III. t. 30Q.—Gemella Baker, Fl. Trap. Afr. i. 420.— Kaust. Fl. 



Lour. PI. Cochinch. (ed. 1790), Gii.— Toxica- Coliimk t. 142.— Tr. and Pl. in Ann. Sc. Nat. 



dendron G^rtn. Friict. i. 207, t. 44 (notTiiL'.vi).). ser. 4, xviii. 369. — Bentu. Fl. Austriil. i. 451. — 



— Na.isavia Vellos. Fl. Flnm iii. t. 155, 156. Seb. and Paxcii. linis. N.-CaUd. 229. — Walp. 



^ Small, often closed. ll,p. i. 414; ii. 814; v. 3fil;..4«". i. 133; ii. 



' .Spec, ad 80. Ik-UM. /•'/. /»/. t. 32, fig. 1 208, 210 (Athplnjlliis) ; iv. 378; vii. 621 



(Kj«Ais).— 11. B. K. Nov. Gen. ct Spec. v. 121.— {Schmiedelia), 622 [AllopJiyllKm). 



P. Beauv. Fl. Ow. et Ben. t. 107.— A. S. H. * Ilumphia, iii. 165.— B. H. Gen. 395, n. 11. 



Mem. Mm. xii. t. 13 ; PI. Ux. Bran. t. 67; PL <• Pale. 



Rem. Brls 169, t. 19 ; FL BrM. Mcr. i. 379, t. 82. » Generally hoaiy. 



— Labill. Sert. Auatro-caled. t. 52. — Boxn. PI. J To whicli genus, and also to Anonwanthis 



Cnromand.t. 61 {Oniitrophe). — Wight and AuN. and to Scorudendrum, very near (see p. 380). 



Prodi: i. 109.- Wioht Icon. t. 401, 964, 964,-. " Spec. aboutS. Perb.-S'^w. j.413 (CMpoMia).— 



