SAPINDAOE^. 



a separate genus has been madc,i the apetalous, dicocioiis flowers liave 

 a small calyx and linear an- 

 thers, exserted. This genus 

 contains about fifty species," 

 growing in Europe and 

 North America and also 

 abounding in temperate 

 Asia, the Himalayas, and 

 Japan. Some are also found 

 in Java. The leaves are op- 

 posite, exstipulatc, simple, 

 entire, palmatilo.bate or 

 palmati-partite, pinnate in 

 ■Ncgundo. The flowers, 



which are precocious, axillary or terminal (green, yellow, reddish), 

 are arranged in spiciform or corymbi- 

 form clusters of cymes. 



In connection with the Maples, Dohinea 

 has been placed in this series. It is a 

 a shrub from the mountains of India, 

 having opposite simple leaves and tetra- 

 merous male flowers, diplostemouous and 

 with double perianth, whilst the female 

 flower has an unilocular ovary, with a 

 descendent ovule, superior and interior 

 micropyle, and no perianth ; but the dry, 

 compressed, marginated fruit, containing a 

 seed whose embryo has flat oval cotyledons 

 and an accumbent radicle, is adnate to a 

 bract growing in a sub oibiciilar, membranous, veined wing resembling 

 a samara. 



NeffHiitlii. 



Fig. 426. Floriferous male branch. 



' Negwido Mœnch, Meth. 334.— DC. Prodr. 

 i. 596.— Spach, Suit, à Biiffon, iii. 118.— Endl. 

 Gen. n. 5559.— A. GuAY, Oen. III. 1. 175.— B. H. 

 Geii. 409, n. ë\—Ne<ju,idium Rafin. (ex DC). 



2 Reichb./«. Fl. Germ.y.i. 162-164.— Hook- 

 et Arn. Beech. Voy. Bot. t. 77 (Negi(ndo). — 

 L Éa. Stirp. t. 98.— MiCHX. Arbr. Fur. ii. t. 14- 

 17.— ToRR. et Gr. Fl. N.-Amer. i. 249 {Nc- 

 ffiitido).—DE&F. Ann. Mus. vii. t. 25. — Wall. 

 PI. As. Bar. t. 104, 105, 132.— Sibth. Fl. 



Grac. t. 361.— Hook. Fl. Bor-Amct. t. 38, 39 

 Loud. Journ. vi. t. 6. — Cambess. in Jacquem 

 Voij. Bot. t. 34.— Bl. Bumphia, iii. 192, t. 67 

 B. — Benth. Fl. Hongk. 47. — A. Gray, Man 

 ed. 5, 118, 119 (iVf</!(»f?o).— Boiss. Fl. Or. i 

 947. -Mia. Prol. Fl. Jap. 18, in Ardi. Néei-l 

 ii. (1867).— GitEN. et Godr. Fl. de Fr. i. 321.— 

 Walp. Bep. i. 408, 410 [Negundo) ; Ann. i. 132 

 ii. 207 ; iv. 373 ; vii. 632, 634 {Ncgundo). 



