SAPINDÀCEjE. 397 



free pubescent ; anthers included small introrse. Germen (rudi- 

 mentary in male flower) 2-dymous muricate ; style rather thick 

 short erect between lobes ; stigmatiferous apex divided into 2 lobes 

 unequal alternating with cells ; ovule in cell solitary subbasilar ; 

 micropyle extrorse inferior. Fruit cocci 1, 2, sessile divergent, 

 ellipsoid or obovate, thick coriaceous, outwardly pyramid-tubercu- 

 late, indéhiscent, 1-spermous. Seed outwardly fleshy (arillate?) 

 cotyledons of exalbuminous embryo large fleshy superposed ; radicle 

 curved acute. — A small tree ; leaves alternate pinnate 3-5-foliolate ; 

 folioles subopposite petiolulate coriaceous entire; flowers Mn axillary 

 and terminal scantily ramified-cymiferous racemes. [Ind. Arch."^) 



10. Deinbollia Schum. and Thonn.^ — Flowers regular (nearly of 

 {Sapinclus) polygamous-diœcious ; sepals 5 unequal, much imbri- 

 cated. Petals 5, alternate suborbicular concave, squamate or lanate- 

 ciliate within, imbricated. Stamens co (usually 15-20) interior to 

 disk, co-seriate ; anthers linear oblong introrse included. Germen 

 (in male flower rudimentary) 2-3-lobed to base ; style erect between 

 cells, straight or curved, long stigmatiferous to apex ; ovules in cells 

 1, suberect; micropyle extrorse inferior. Fruit 1-3-lobed; lobes 

 globose coriaceo^is. Seeds globose included in fleshy aril ; cotyledons 

 of exalbuminous embryo plano-convex thick unequal ; radicle short 

 incumbent —Glabrous pubescent or villose trees ; leaves alternate 

 imparipinnate ; folioles large, 2-co -jugate glabrous ; flowers * in 

 axillary simple or composite ramified racemes. ( Tro^). West. Africa^') 



11. Heterodendron Desf." — Flowers regular apetalous (nearly 

 of Kejjhelhtni) hermaphrodite or polygamous ; calyx short cui^ular 

 unequally-crenate or lobate persistent. Discus short annular. 

 Stamens 5-15, more or less interior to disk; filament hypogynous 

 short; anthers erect introrse, 2-rimose, exserted. Germen central, 

 2-4-locular ; style very short ; apex obtuse 2-4-lobed stigmati- 

 ferous ; ovules in cells 1, ascendent ; micropyle extrorsely inferior, 

 sometimes minutely obturated. Fruit diy, indéhiscent ; 2-dymous 

 or 3-4-lobcd, coriaceous ; seed suberect arillate ; cotyledons of exal- 



1 Small, "Greenish." i'7. Trop. Aft: i. 431.— W alp. Sep. v. 371; 



- Spec. 1, 2. Mia. Fl. Iiid.-Bat. i. p. ii. 352. Aim. i. 134 ; ii, 224. 



3 Besh: 242.— Endl. Gen. n. 5638 '.— B. H. " Mévi. Mus. iv. 8, t. 3.— DC. Prodr. ii. 92.— 



Qe)i. 405, n. ia.—Prustea Cambess. Mem. Mas. K. Aim. He. Nat. ser. I, ii. 365.— Endl. Gen. d. 



XTiii. 23, t. 1 C. 5955 {Coiinaraceie ?].—'B. H. Geii. 407, 1000, 



* Globose, rather large. n. 53. 



' Spec. 5, 6. Hook. r. Niger. 250.— Bakeu, 



