SAPINDAOEM. 409 



indéhiscent, 1-3-locular ; seed in cell oftener 1, exarillate ; cotyledons 

 of fleshy exalbumiuous embryo thick more or less curved or condu- 

 plicate; radicle short ascendent.— Small trees ; twigs tomentelloso 

 (fulvous) ; leaves alternate, abruptly or imparipinnate ; folioles sub- 

 opposite euth-e or dentate ; flowers in short much ramified cymiferous 

 axillary and terminal racemes. [South Africa and east. trop, islands}') 



35 ? Pseudopteris H. Bn. — Flowers 1-sexual regular; male 

 calyx 5-partite (coloured), valvate or subimbricate. Petals 5, alternate 

 much shorter, cucullate, induplicate- valvate ; each enclosing in its 

 cavity a small obtuse interior basilar glandule. Stamens 5, interior 

 to glands and alternating with them ; filaments free, exserted, inserted 

 below small central rudiment of gynseceum ; anthers ovate introrse 

 (coloured), 2-rimose. Female flower..,? — A small tree (not ramified 

 or scarcely so) glabrous ; leaves collected at apex alternate, very 

 abruptly or paripinnate ; folioles 20-25-jugate, opposite or alternate, 

 unequally-trapezoid acute entire, sinuate or serrate reticulate- veined ; 

 male flowers in simple elongated racemes (^springing from the 

 wood) alternately cymiferous, small crowded, thinly pedicellate." 

 {Madagascar?) 



36 ? Averrhoidium H. Bn. — Flowers polygamo - diœcious 

 regular apetalous (nearly of Hippobro^niis) ; sepals 5, unequal, im- 

 bricated. Stamens 8, interior to regular lobed disk ; filaments free ; 

 anthers short (effete in female flower). Germen in female flower 

 central, 3-locular ; style simple reclinate, stigmatiferous at apex ; 

 ovules in cells 2, inserted at middle of internal angle ; one ascendent, 

 the other descendent. Fruit...? — A tree ; leaves alternate collected 

 at summit of twigs, abruptly pinnate ; leaves 2-4-jugate unequal, 

 serrate above ; flowers in short scanty cymiferous racemes terminal 

 or axillary to upper leaves.* (Brasil?) 



37 ? Filicium Thw.*^— Flowers regular polygamous; sepals 5, im- 



' Spec. 2, of which one ia Irom Madagascar. 243. 

 PoiR. Sitppl. iii. 224 (Melicacca). — Juss. Mém. * A genus imperfectly known, allied in some 



Mu.1. iii. 178, t. 7 {Mclicocca). — DC. Prodr. i. respects to Eippobroinus and Melicocca in 



615, n. 5 i^Melioocca). — Thtjnb. I'l. Cap. 268 ofhexs io Dodonœa 



{Rhus). — Spreng. Sijst. Suppl. 18 [Wein- ' Spec. 1. A. Gardneriamtm H. Bn. Adan- 



mannia) — Harv. & Sond. Fl. Cap. i. 241. sonia, xi. 244. 



2 A genus, from its female flowers being un- ^ Eimin. PL Zeyl. 408 {Bursereœ). — B. H. 



known, of -very doubtful place, allied ap- Geii. 325, n. 11. — March. Adansonia, viii. 40 



parently to Filicium and Eippobvomus (and [Anneard.). — Plei-idopkijllum Thw. Hook. Kew 



perhaps to Maephersonia ?). Juurn. vi. 65, t. 1 (not Sieb. et Zucc). 

 Spec. 1. P. decipiens H, Bn. Adaiiso>na, xi. 

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