SAPINDACE.^. 401 



17. Lecaniodiscus Pl^ — Flowers polygamo-diœcious apeta- 

 lous ; lobes of sacciform gamophyllous calyx 5, subequal rotund, 

 imbricated, finally reflexed. Disk shortly cnpiilar adnate to perianth 

 regular, obsciu'cly 10-crenato sulcatc within. Stamens 10, or more 

 rarely 9 ; filaments hypogynon sly inserted interior to disk free slender 

 far exserted ; anthers basifixed elongated (eifete in female flower ?) 

 introrse, 2-rimose. Germen free central sessile ovoid, 3-locular, 

 attenuated to short style, reflexed at thickly 3-lobed stigmatiferons 

 apex ; ovules in cells 1 , ascendent from internal angle ; micropyle 

 extrorsely inferior obturated. Fruit subdrupaceous ovoid, out- 

 wardly tomentose, acute at apex; mosocarp finally dry; put amen 

 1-spermous ; seeds suberect, enclosed in copious basilar aril ; testa 

 crustaceous nitid ; cotyledons of thick exalbuminous embryo confer- 

 ruminate. — A small tree ; twigs and petioles pubescent ; leaves 

 alternate pinnate ; folioles siibopposite entire ; flowers ^ in racemes 

 simple or ramified at base. ( Trop. West Africa.^) 



18 ? Jagera Bl.* — Flowers polygamous regular (nearly of Capania) 

 sepals 3-5, imbricated. Petals same in number alternate, enlarged in- 

 wardly with cucullate scales. Stamens 8, interior to annular disk, 

 rather villose or pubescent. Germen turbinate 3-4-agonal, 3-4- 

 locular; style short, stigmatiferous at apex, rather obtuse 3, 4-sul- 

 cate ; ovule ascendent (of Cupania). " Fruit baccate hirsute ; cells 

 3, 4, stupose at bottom, I -sperraous ; seeds exarillate ; embryo 

 curved.' " — Trees ; leaflets alternate, abruptlypinnate ; leaflets serrate 

 alternate and opposite ; flowers in axillary and terminal ramifled 

 compound- cymiferous racemes. {Trop. Asia, Oceania, Malacca.^) 



10 Lepisanthes Bl. "' — Flowers regular (nearly of Cupania). 4-5- 

 merous ; sepals and petals squami ferons within imbricated; scales 

 cucullate or 2-lobed, sometimes furnished with .2-lobed or lacerate 

 crest {Scorodcndron^). Stamens 8-10, interior to complete annular disk ; 

 anthers included or exserted, Germen central, 2-3-loeular. Fruit 



' Sook. Niger, 251.— B. H. Gen. 403, n. 33. fig.2.— RoxB. Fl. Ind.ii. 284 {Sapindus).—T)0. 



2 " Greenish purple, odorous." Prodr. ii. 81, n. 2{Garuffa). Deless. Ic. Si I. 



' Spec. 1 vel. 2. Baker, Fl. Trup. Af>: 1, "i- 35, t. 67 [Garuga). 



428. TBijdr. 238; Bmnphia, iii. 150 (part.)— 



■• Rumphia, iii, 155.— B. H. Oeii. 403, n. Cambess. Mém. Mm. xviii. 25.— Endl. G™. 



39. n. SG09.— B. H. Gen. 403, n. 38. 



' Other characters nearly of Nepheliiim. A ^ Bl. Rumphia, iii. 149. — B. H. Gen. 403, n. 



very doubtful genua. 37. 



* Spec. 2, 3. RuMPH. Herb. Amboiii. i. t. 53, 



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