SAPINDAGE^. 305 



bi;t tbe four petals are destitute of apiiendage ; the widened receptacle 

 is furnished with a large, flattened, unilateral disk ; the fruit is capsu- 

 lar, loculicidal, then in part septicidal ; the three cells are separated 



Cossignia hoiho^iica. 



Fig. 393. Male flower (f). Fig. 394. Longitudinal aection of male flower. 



Fig. 395. Male flower with Fig. 397. Seed [\). Fig. 398. Longitudinal Fig. 396. Fruit, 

 the perianth removed. section of seed. 



finally from the cokimella. Sometimes the coat is nearly woody ; some- 

 times, as in the Malagash species, it is vesiculate and coloured. In 

 this case Cossignia completely represents the irregular form of Har- 

 pullia ; the exarillate and exalbuminous seeds have an embryo rolled 

 up like that oî Kœlreuteria (fig. 398). The leaves are iraparipinnate 

 or trifoliolate. Loxodiscus, a shi-ub from New Caledonia, is closely 

 allied to the preceding genera. Its five sepals and four or five 

 petals, bordered by small globular glands, are imbricate. The 

 excentric ovary, accompanied by a large cupula-shaped unilateral 



