SAPINDACF.T:. 407 



arched accumbcnt ascendent.-— A tree ;' leaves approximately alternate 

 or subopposite, crowded at summit of twigs, abruptly pinnate, 

 folioles oj)posite oblique siibtrapezoid obtuse or refuse, entire; 

 flowers " in axillary ramified oymiferous racemes.^ (South Jfrica.*) 



81. Melicopsidium H. 13n. — Flowers regular polygamous; 

 sepals 5, unequal, much imbricated. Petals 5, alternate, longer 

 orbiculate concave, glandular fimbriate at margin, imbricate. 

 Stamens 5, alteruipetalous, interior to regular disk outwardly between 

 the petals prominent-5-angular ; filaments hypogynous very corru- 

 gate-plicate, finally long exserted ; anthers (effete in female flower) 

 ovoid, introrsely 2-rimose. Germen (rudimentary in male flower) 

 central, 3-4-locular ; style terminal straight or slightly curved, simple 

 stigmatiferous scarcely incrassate at apex; ovules in cells 2, inserted 

 at middle of internal angle, oblique or subhorizontal. Fruit capsular, 

 3-4-coccous ; cocci solute from woody filiform-3-partite columella, in- 

 wardly dehiscent ; endocarp subpergamentaceous ; exocarp finally dry 

 thinsolubile. Seeds in cells 1, 2, globose-subhippocrepiformexarillate ; 

 testa crustaceous(dark); cotyledons of exalbuminous embryo amply 

 foliaceous much convolute; radicle long terete arched. — A small tree ; 

 leaves alternate petiolate, 3-foliolate; folioles oblong-lanceolate obtuse 

 subcoriaccous ; flowers in terminal corymbiform ramified-cymiferous 

 racemes slightly shorter than upper leaves.^ [N.- Caledonia S') 



32. HarpuUia Eoxb. ^ — Flowers regular dioecious or polygamous, 

 4- or more rarely {Harpulliastrum^) 5-merous ; sepals equal and petals 

 same in number alternate longer esquamate imbricated. Disk very 

 small or 0. Stamens 5-S, hypogynous (in female flower rudimentary) ; 

 filaments central erect elongated ; anthers introrse. Germen (rudi- 

 mentary in male fiower) 2-3-locular ; style short or elongate, straight 



1 Bark bitter. dons. It presents apparently the regular form 



2 Small, ebracteate. of Cossigiia or Loxodiscus. Leaves of Zanthoxy- 

 ^ "A genus approaching the Simaiubete in hn. 



many points." (B. H.) ' Spec. I. M.trifoliattcmH. Bn. Adansonia, 



* Spec. 1. P. utile Eckl. & Zeyh. loc. eit. — xi. 243. 



Harv. Thes. Cap. i. 11, t. 17.— Harv. & Sond. " Fl. hid. i. 645.— B. H. Gen. 407, n. 54.— 



Fl. Cap. i. 243.— Walp. Rep. i. 422 ; Ann. vii. Tina Bl. Bijdr. 235 (part.), not Eœm. et ScH. 



637. — Otonijchium'Bl^. Snntphia, iii. 180. — Blancoa 



* A genus not unlike Sarjmllia, differing Bl. loc. cit. 181. — Danatophoriis Zipp. Bijdr. 

 chiefly in its 3-foliate leaves, petals, evolute Nat. Wet. v. 181 {T/mnatophortis ?). — Sirepto- 

 disk, nature of capsule, exarillato seeds, very stigma Thw. Hook. Kew Jotirn. vi. 298, t, 9 A. 

 long radicle and convolute foliaceous cotyle- ^ H. Bn. Adansonia, xi. 242. 



