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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



two arrangements may even, as in Fhomnthus, be met with in one 

 and the same species. The flowers, small and numerous, are col- 

 lected in very ramified compound clusters ; they are pretty fre- 

 quently polygamous. 



111. SAPINDUS SEETES. 



In Saphuhis'^ (fig. 351-353), the flowers are regular, hermaphro- 

 dite or polygamous, often with four, more frequently m ith five parts. 

 The convex or slightly depressed receptacle supports, in the latter 



iSapindus arborcscens. 



351. Flower (f). 



Fig. 352. Longitudinal section of flower. 



case, a calyx with five imbricate sepals, equal or unequal, and a 

 corolla of five alternate petals, equally imbricated or twisted, naked 

 internally or furnished at the point of junction of the claw and limb, 

 with a simple or double petaloid appendage. Inside the petals is 

 seen a cù'cular disk in the shape of a glandular pad siuToundiug the 

 stamens. These are often ten in number, superi^osed, five to the 

 sepals and five smaller ones to the petals, each formed by an hypo- 

 gynous or slightly perigynous free filament, and a bilocular introrse 

 anther dehiscing by two longitudinal clefts." The gynseceum, rudi- 

 mentary in the male flowers, is free, formed of an ovary often with 



1 Sapindus Plvm. (ex T. List. 659, t. 440).— 

 L. Gen. n. 449. — Adans. Fain, des PI. ii. 343. — 

 J. Gen. 247.— G.T3RTN. Fnict. i. 341, t. 70.— 

 T-AMK, ///. t. 307.— PoiR. Dicf. vi. 662 ; Suppl. 

 V. 72. — DC. Fiodi: i. 607. — Cambess. Mem. Mus. 

 xviii. 56. — Spach, Suit, à Buffon, iii. 52. — Endl. 



Gen. 



Bn. Payer Fam. A'al. 315.— B. H. Oen. 404, n. 

 43. — Aphaiiia Bl. Bijdr. 236.— Endl. Gen. n. 

 5615.— Mia. Fl. Ind.-Ent. i. p. ii. 52.—JDidi/mo- 

 coceiisBh. Bumphia, iii. 103. 



- H. MoHL (Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 2, iii. 337) 

 describes the pollen as : " plat, triangulaire ; 



n. 5610.— A. Gray, Gen. III. t. 180. — H. sur les angles des papilles, des lignes légères 



