SAPINDAOE^. 421 



twigs spinesceut, leaves glaucescent alteraate or fasciculate small 

 linear entire ; flowers ^ in axillary 1- or few-flowered fasciculiform 

 bracteolate cymes (?). (^Beloochistan.-) 



61. Diplopeltis Endl.^ — Flowers polygamous irregular (nearly of 

 Koelreuteria ; sejmls 5, subequal, glandulose-ciliate at margin, imbri- 

 cate. Petals 4, membranous, uuguiculate, esquamate, imbricate. 

 Disk interior to perianth, very unequally oblique, dilated posteriorly 

 to a compressed excentric cupule (presenting the appearance of 2 un- 

 equally creuate lamella?). Stamens 8, subceutric (in female flower 

 small effete); filaments fi-ee declined glabrous; anthers introrse ver- 

 satile, 2-rimose. Germen (in male flower rudimentary) subcentric 

 2-3-lobed, 2-3-Iocular ; style erect, afterwards contorted, at apex 

 stigmatose scarcely or not dilated; ovules 2 in each cell, inserted in 

 the internal angle, oblique or subtransverse. Fruit capsular coria- 

 ceous depressed 2, 3-lobed, septicidally 2-3-coccous; cocci finally 

 dehiscing inwards, 1-2-spcrmous. Seeds oblique ; testa crustaceous ; 

 aril small ; cotyledons of exalbuminous embryo foliaceous very 

 spirally convolute. — Herbs, oftener shrubby at base, glandulose 

 pubescent ; branches slender ; leaves alternate simple unequally 

 laciniately piunatifld ; flowers in terminal racemiform scorpioid 

 bracteate cymes. [South Australia.^) 



62. Erythrophysa E. Mey.*^ — Flowers hermaphrodite irregular 

 (nearly of Kidreutcriu) ; recej)tacle widely cupuliform. Sepals 5, 

 inserted at margin, unequal, imbricate. Petals 4, unguiculate ; limb 

 thinly membranous subcorrugate venose ; base furnished within with 

 a very plicate-cristate scale. Disk large posterior widely cupular, 

 crenate at glandulose undulate margin ; androceum and gynreccum 

 very or slightly excentric anterior to cupule. Stamens 8, subequal 

 free, hypogynous ; anthers short introrse. Germen stipitate, 3- 

 locular ; style simple, at apex stigmatose scarcely eapitellate ; ovules 

 2 in internal angle of cells ; one ascendent ; the other descendent. 

 Fruit large inflated ; cells 3, submembranous, winged at back, 



' Small, gloljose. '. Spec. 2. Lehm. Fl. Prciss. ii. 233. — Mia. 



2 Spec. 1. 6'. brahuica Benth. loc. cit. — Boiss. PI. Pnis.s. i. 223. — F. Muell. Friii/iii. in. 12. — 



PI. Or. i. 946.— Wai.p. Ami. iv. 374. Benta. Fl. Austral, i. io5.—But. Jieg. (H3!)1, t. 



' Eiii(/. Finiiii. 12.— Endl. Gen. n. 5625.— 69.— Wali-. Sip. v. 367. 



B. H. Ocii. 39G, n. 19. o Fl. F)re(j. -Enul. Kufid. ii. 85.— B. H. Qen. 



♦ White, rosy or lilac, showy (somewhat re- 397, n. X'i—Enjthrophi'a Arn. in Sook. Journ. 



sembling those of Schizanthua). Bot. iii. 258. 



