SAPINDACE.^. «!t:î 



Carpels 2, 3, connate in gennen partite nearly to base ; ovules in 

 each cell c«, 2-seriate inserted at internal angle, more or less 

 ascendent. Fruit capsular membranous vesiculate-inflated, 2-3- 

 lobed ; cells 2, 3, inwardly at apex rimose bians. Seeds in 

 cells tew subglobose ; testa outwardly osseous ; embryo straight 

 albuminous. — Eamified shi'ubs; leaves opposite stipulate, 3-foliate 

 or pinnate ; folioles stipellate, in vernation involute ; flowers in 

 nutant axillary subsimple or ramified cymifcrous racemes ; pedicels 

 bracteate, articulate to middle. [Europe, temp. Jsia, and America.) 

 See p. 344. 



II. SABIE^. 



3. Sabia C'olebr. — Flowers hermaphrodite or more rarely poly- 

 gamous, usually 5-merous ; receptacle concave. Sepals free, imbri- 

 cated. Petals same in number opposite, imbricate. Stamens same 

 in number oppositipetalous ; filaments free inserted under central 

 5-angiilaror 5-lobed process of receptacle ; cells of anthers 2, adnate 

 to connective or 2-dymous, introrsely, laterally or extrorsely rimose. 

 Gormen inserted at summit of central process of receptacle ; carpels 



2, or more rarely 3, free ; ovules in germen 2, collateral or sub- 

 superposed, inserted at internal angle, ascendent ; micropyle introrse 

 inferior ; styles 2, 3, free, capitellato stigmatiferous more or less 

 coherent to apex. Fruit carpels 1-3, dry or drupaceous, free, inside 

 persistently rostrate with subbasilar style, dorsally gibbous ; putamen 

 outwardly rugose ligneous. Seeds reniform ; testa punctate ; albu- 

 men scanty or membranous ; cotyledons of more or less curved 

 embryo rather flat or undulate ; radicle inferior incurved. Sarmen- 

 tose or scandent shrubs ; buds squamate ; leaves alternate petiolate 

 entire ; flowers (usually prœcose) axillary, solitary, more or less rami- 

 fied-cymiferous, 2-bracteolate. [Temp, and trop. Asia.) See p. 345. 



4. Meliosma Bl. — Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamous- 

 dioecious, oftener 3-'merous; sepals 3-5 unequal, imbricated. Petals 



3, thick, imbricated or more rarely valvate, inwardly accrescent 

 with large 2-lobed or 2-cucullate scales unequally cut, sometimes 

 linear {Plio.iantlms). Stamens generally 2 fertile, alternipetalous ; 

 filaments free linear flat, dilated at apex below anther to unequally- 



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