SAPINDACEJE. 805 



terminal and axillary more or less ramified-compouud cymiferous 

 racemes. {All trop, and suhtrop. reg.) See p, 348. 



6. Euphoria J.' — Flowers polygamous-dioecious (nearly of Sapin- 

 dus) ; sepals 5, rather large, subvalvate or imbricated. Petals 5, or 

 4, 3 (sometimes 0), esquaraate or squamate. Stamens 6-10, interior 

 to regular disk ; anthers oblong introrsely rimose. Germen central, 

 2-3-lobed ; 2, 3, cells and ovules of Saplndus ; style erect between 

 lobes more or less deeply 3-lobcd ; lobes recurved, inwardly stigma- 

 tiferous. Fruit 1-3-coccous ; cocci ovoid or globose crustaceous, 

 smooth or shortly tuberculate, sometimes finally unequally broken. 

 Seed subglobose, enclosed by pulpy aril ; testa coriaceous ; coty- 

 ledons of exalbuminous embryo thick plano-convex ; radicle short 

 inferior. — Trees ; leaves alternate imparipinnate ; subopposite folioles 

 and inflorescence of Saplndus, terminal or axillary, ( Trop. Asia and 

 Oceania.'^) 



7, Nephelitun L.^ — Flowers polygamous-diœcious (nearly of Sap- 

 lndus or Euphoria) ; calyx small cupular, 4-6-dentate ; teeth short, 

 valvate, slightly imbricate or not contiguous. Petals 4-6, villous or 

 sometimes squamate within, more rarely 0. Stamens interior to com- 

 pletely annular pubescent or glabrous disk 5-10, oftener 8 ; anthers 

 introrse (effete in female flower). Germen central (rudimentary in 

 male flower) 2-3-dymou3 or 2-3-lobed ; cells 2, 3, 1-ovulate ; style 

 branches 2, 3, often recurved stigmatiferous at apex, Fruit cocci 

 1-3, coriaceous or subfleshy, sometimes tuberculate aculeate or 

 bristling with spines, indéhiscent or more rarely subtransversely 

 (Spanoffhca '*) or longitudinally and îoWiGulatelj {Culfllia,^ Sfadmanla ") 

 dehiscent. Seed solitary in cocci semi-immersed in pulpy aril 

 (Spanoffhca) or enth-cly involute ; cotyledons of exalbuminous embryo 



1 Geii. 248 (part.).— B. H. Gen. 406, n. 48. —Ei(phorin Commeks. (ex J. Gen. 248, part.).— 



^ Spec. 8-10, of which 1 is often cultivated, Sei/talia G^etn. Fnict. i. 197, t. 42. — Dimocar- 



scil. H. LongaiM Lamk. Diet. va. 574. — DC. ;»«« Lour. i^7. Corfiwe/;. 233, part. (iucl. : Cubilia 



Pj-od;-. i. 611, n. 2. — 5(<<. Ifœy. t. 4096. Others Bl. Poppeea Eckl. et Zeyh. Pometin Forst. 



generally enumerated under Nephelium axs al- Spatioghea Bl. •^tadinania'LAitK.). 



waysdistinguishedbylargerfreesepals. Cambess. ■* Bl. Rumphia, iii. 173. — B. H. Gen. 406, n. 



in Mém. Mtis. xviii. 30.— Bl. Rumphia, iii. 102. 50. 



— Benth. Fl. Austral, i. 468.— Moon, Cat. 31 » Bl. Itumphia, iii. 100.— B. H. Geii. 400, n. 



{Dinioearpus). — Thw. Emim. PI. Zeijl. 57. 27. 



3 Muutiss. n. 1277.— Cambess. Mém. Mus. « Lamk. IH. t. 312.— Pom. Diet. vii. 376.— 



xviii. 30 (part.).— Spach, Suit, à Dufon, iii. 61 DC. Pyodr. i. 615.~B. H. Gen. 406, n. 49. 



(part.).— Endl. Gen. n. 5617 (part.).— B. H. Baker, Fl. Meurit. 59. 



Gen. 405, n. 47.— H. Bn. Pai/er Fam. Nat. 316. 



