SAPINDACE^. 405 



roxmded at base by very fleshy thick turgicU (red) unequally- rugose 

 aril ; cotyledons of exalbuminous curved embryo cxtremel}' sph-ally 

 convolute ; radicle inferior. — A lofty tree ; leaves alternate impari- 

 pinnate ; folioles entire or denticulate, pubescent beneath ; flowers in 

 axillary and terminal ramified compound cymiferous racemes. [New 

 Zealand. ~) 



27 ? Eriandrostachys H. Bn. — Flowers diœcious ; male calyx 

 5-6 -partite ; folioles regularly arranged, very unequal and dis- 

 similar from each other ; the 2, 3, exterior shorter thick villose (like 

 the sepals) ; the interior much larger wide petaloid ; ^ all extremely 

 imbricated. Stamens 8, interior to regular 5-crenate disk ; fila- 

 ments inserted below small central rudiment of gynseceiim, in bud 

 corrugate-plicate, finally exserted ; anthers ovoid introrse, 2-rimose. 

 Female flower . . . ? — A tall small shrub ; stems numerous ; wood very 

 hard ; nearly all parts ferruginose-villose ; leaves alternate pari- 

 pinnate; folioles opposite, very short petiolulate, 0-10-jugate, 

 unequally-lanceolate ; flowers in axUlary simple or scantily fascicu- 

 late rigid spikes subequal to leaves ; the male in axils of short bracts 

 glomerulate small.' {3Iudagascar}) 



28. Thouinia Poit." — Flowers dioecious or polygamous regular ; 

 sepals 4, 5, free or connate at base, greatly or slightly imbricated. 

 Petals 4, 5, alternate, sometimes minute {Thimuia ^), entire or 2-lobed, 

 furnished with villulose scales or 0. Stamens 8-10, interior to 

 crenate or lobed annular disk ; filaments free, oftencr jiilose ; anthers 

 introrse, 2-rimose. Germen (rudimentary in male flower) 3-locular ; 

 style erect, subentu-e or 3-fid stigmatiferous at apex ; ovule in cell 1, 

 ascendent ; micropyle extrorsely inferior. Fruit 3-samar£e,^ solute 

 from central, sometimes persistent {nunouia) axis; testa of exarillate 

 seed membranous ; cotyledons of exalbiiminous embryo thick plano- 



' The swelling finally bursting the pericarp ^ Ann. Mus. iii. 70, t. 6, 7 (not Dome, nor 



by dehiscence. Sm. nor Sw.).— Tubp. Diet. Sc. Nat. Atl. t. 171. 



^ Spec. 1. A. excelsum GaiRlN. loc. cit. — — DC. Prodr. i. 612.^Endl. Gen. n. 6618. 



Hook. Icon. t. 570.— Hook. f. Fl. N.-Zd. i. 37 ; B. H. Qeii. 400, 1000, n. 29.—Thyana Ham. 



Man. N.-Zeal. Fl. 45. Frodr. Fl. I„d. Occ. 36. — Vargasia Bert. 



' " Rosy." Spreng. Si/st. ii. 2S3. —Carpodipterix Karst. Fl. 



* A genus, from the female flower being un- Columb. ii. 45, t. 23. 



known, of very doubtful place in the order, 7 Tk. et Pl. Ann. Sciene. Nat. sir. 4, xviii. 



■whether aUied to MeHcocca (?) ; it differs chiefly 368. A genus at first sight sufficiently distinct, 



in the spikes being very long and the leaves but better, according to Benth. and Hook, on 



of perianth, although regularly arranged, being account of the slight importance of these cha- 



very unequal and dissimilar. raoters, not preserved. 



* Spec. 1. E. C/iapellieri H. Bn. Adansouia, xi. * Resembling those of Acer 

 239. 



