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Endlicher,' under the name of Meliosmecv, between Sapindaccœ and 

 Hippocastaneœ. We replace them as a series in the family of 

 Sapindaccœ, adding seven new genera ^ and replacing Hucrtea of 

 EtJiz and Pa von, Ganoplvjllum of Blume, and Filichim ofTnwAiTEs; 

 which, without the imperfectly known types whose place is quite un- 

 certain,^ raises the number of genera to seventy-fou.r. We group 

 them in eight series whose general characters are as follows : 



1. Staphyle.e.- -Hermaphrodite flowers, regular, with depressed 

 or slightly concave receptacle, lined by a disk whose thickened edge 

 is interior to stamens which are equal in number to the petals. 

 Carpels totally independent or united to a variable height. 

 Ovules 2- OD. Fruit dry or fleshy. Seeds with or without aril, with 

 albumen and rectilinear embryo. I^eaves opposite, simjDle or com- 

 pound. — 2 genera. 



2. Sabie^. — Hermaphi-odite or uni-sexual regular flowers. Disk 

 interior to stamens superposed to the petals and equal or less in 

 number. Carpels independent or united in an ovary with 2 or 3 

 cells. Ovules 2 in each cell, more or less distinctly ascendent and 

 anatropous, micropyle directed downwards and outwards. Fruit dry 

 or fleshy, generally indéhiscent. Seeds with albumen wanting or very 

 slight, a bent embryo, conduplicate or rolled in a spiral. Leaves 

 alternate (rarely opposite), simple or compound pinnate. — 2 genera. 



3. Sapinde^. — Flowers regular or nearly so, polygamo-diœcious. 

 Petals equal, the same in number as the divisions of the calyx and 

 alternate with them, often lined by a scale. Disk exterior to the 

 androceum, more rarely interior or iaterposod to the stamens, com- 

 plete, circular, regular or nearly so. Gynaeceum central with 1-2- 



' Ge». 1165. ii. 184, t. 6 ; — H. Bs. Euplinrbim. 657). 



2 Pudoiiepheliinn, Ciossoiieplielia, \Eriatidro- African tree (cultivated in hothouses), with 



atachi/s, Melicopsidium, Pseitdopteris, Averrhoi- compound-digitate, opposite leaves, fruit cap- 



dimn, Pseudatahya. sular, loculicidal, and cells dispermous. Doubt- 



2 1st. Ei/xiathes (Lour. Fl. Coehinch. 234) ; ful F,iiphorbiaceœ, according to Hookeu. Sk- 



— DC. Prodi: i. 618 {Eustathes) ; — Endl. Oeii. pindaccm (M. Arg. he. cit.). 

 n. 5633). — Tree with entire alternate leaves, 4th. Racaria (Aubl. Gaiaii. ii. Suppl. 24, t. 



flowers, 5-inerou3, 8-androus, fruit fleshy, 1- 382). Shrub with compound pinnate leaves, 



locular, 4-spermous. drupaceous fruit containing two or three 



2ud. Hedf/carpus (Jack, Trans. Linn. Soc. monosperraous kernels (very imperfectly de- 



xiv. 1 18 ; — EsDL. Oen. n. 5877 ; Suppl. iii. 79, scribed and doubtfully referred to the Sapiii- 



nec Hassk. ncc Miq.). — Enphorhiacca, ex B. £1. dacea). 



Gen. 392. " Reote ad Sapiiidaceas translatus 5th. Schicckea (Karst. Bot. Zeit. (1848), 



fuit," M. Arg. DC. Prodr. xv. sect. ii. 1259 398). " Gren. ut viletur Serjaniœ affine, ex 



{Schmideliu 1 !) descr. futuU tantum notum " (B. H. Oen. 392. 



3rd. Oldfieldta (B. H. Hook. Joiirn. (1850), 



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