XLTII. SAPINDACEiE. 



1. STAPHYLEA SEEIES. 



"We commence the study of this group by the analysis, not of a 

 Staphjlca (fig. 335, 339-351), but rather of a Triceros^ whose 

 flowers (fig. 336) are regular, hermaphrodite, with a receptacle in 

 the form of a cup of little depth. The edges bear five sepals and an 

 equal number of perigynous petals, both imbricate, five alternipe- 



Staphylea pinnata. 



Flori forons branch. 



talons stamens, also perigynous, eacli formed of a free thread and a 

 bilocular introrse anther dehiscing by two longitudinal clefts, and 

 also inserted perigynously. In the interior the glandular disk lining 

 the concavity of the receptacle is prolonged in a circular rim, nearly 

 entii'e. In the concavity of the receptacle, below the perianth and 



1 Lour. Fl. CocJiiiich. (éd. 1790), 184.— DC. 

 Pioih-.n. 89 [Tenbinthac. dub.). — Endl. Cm. n. 

 6945.— B. H. Gen. 418, 439.— ? Suscajihis Sieb. 



et Zucc. Fl. Jap. i. 124, t. 67.— Endl. Oeti. n. 

 5G72.— B. H. Ge». 412, n. 72. 



