SAPINDACE^. 



WMlst the ovary cells are imioviilate in the preceding genera, 

 they each contain two or more ovnles in the following types of which 

 the best known by ns is Kœlrcutcria (fig. 385-390). In this beau- 

 tiful tree from North China, propagated by our florists, irregular 



Kœlrciitcriii i)nniciilni.a. 



Fig. 387. Fruit. 



Fig. 386. Longitudinal section of 

 flower (f). 



Fig. 388. Longitudinal section 

 of fruit. 



Longitudinal section 

 of seed. 



Fig. 385. Flower. 



Fig. 389. Seed (\). 



flowers are also observed, having five sepals, with three or four ungui- 

 culate petals, five to eight declinate stamens, and a unilateral disk ; 

 but in each ovary cell is inserted, towards the middle of the internal 

 angle, two ovules primitively ascendent, with the raphe internal, 

 whilst when full grown, only one remains so, the other becoming 

 descendent, with the raphe outwards. The fruit (fig. 887-388) is a 

 vescicular capsule, recalling that of Cardios2icri)mm, whose three cells, 

 dehiscent by longitudinal dorsal clefts, are blended above and some- 

 times below. The exariilate seeds (fig. 389, 390) contain a fleshy 

 embryo, with large cotyledons rolled in a spiral form. jStocksm, a 

 small shrub from the mountains of Beloochistan, is very different in 

 aspect, although it has the flowers organised very nearly the same. 



